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THIS AREA HAD SOME BEAUTIFUL OLD BUILDINGS THAT SEEM TO BE A TOURIST ATTRACTION OF SOME SORT !!!!! IT WAS ALL ACROSS FROM AND AROUND THAT AREA OF THE CAFE.....
If You visit Lombok island West Nusa Tenggara, don't miss to call on Three Gili Islands, GILI TRAWANGAN, GILI MENO and GILI AIR, these was the islands with nice beaches, crystal clear blue water, where you can go boating, snorkeling, diving and surfing. The island with complete accomodation, Music Cafe, Restaurant, Villa, internet cafe. Itwas good for tourist by it was not so crowded than Bali
When you hire a driver for the day, ask him to take you to his village and show you his home. It's a great experience to learn how they live and their habits.Hiring a driver for a day is very cheap , you pay about 30USD.We had a great driver, Wayan Sueta, very good person and knowledgable of Bali. He took us to places we could never have discovered on our own. He has his webpage and I give you his contact below. Be sure to book well in advance!
Because of the history of the evolutionof the land mass of Indonesia,this country has to offer some of the most diverse, unique species in the world.A true National Geographic!With it 13,000 islands +,the species that live on these islands haveprogressed in to fine examples of what Charles Darwin’s theories were all about.During the ice age,the islands on the western side of Indonesiaare believed to have been connected all the way up to Suluwasi.,allowing animals from Asia to migrateto these areas before they became islands.This includes elephants and orangutans ,which can mostly be found today onSuluwasi and Borneo. Once the ice age began to recede,the various animals traveled through swampy lands hopping from island to island and finally settling down when there was no longer a passage,and the evolving into some of the most unique species in the world.Mind you, that during the ice...
Pero is a one-street fishing village on the west coast of Sumba. The coastal scenery is beautiful here; our favourite beach was a little secluded cove that can be reached by wading across the river, or kids will offer to paddle you over in a boat. There are also some great kampung (traditional villages) within walking distance along the coast; the towering thatched roofs of the houses are impressive. While the people in Pero itself are friendly, the villagers in the kampung are a bit wary of foreigners; you will be made much more welcome if you bring betelnut with you, or at least some cigarettes. The only place to stay in Pero is Homestay Story, which charges 100,000 rupiah per person for full room and board. The homecooked food was good, but the water tasted awful so try to bring your own bottled water.
The view from above is definitely needed to get the whole effect of the so-called spider-rice fields near Ruteng in Flores. Instead of plotting the rice field in squares or rectangles they divided it like a pie. From the hills above it appears like a spider web pattern. Their origin is interesting. Apparently the Manggarai people, who inhabit this region, traditionally built their villages in a circular layout, and the land of each family would radiate out from behind their hut. The terracing required for rice cultivation would intersect these radial dividing lines. So, with the village at the centre no longer there, the rice fields resemble a spider's web. I believe there are several of these types of fields in the area. I tried to look up the name of the village, and I found mentions of spider rice fields in Cara, Ndaro, Malawatatar, and Cancar.
From Ruteng we hired a local high school student named Stephan to be our guide to Wae Rebo, an extremely remote Manggarai village. We first rode in the back of a large truck for five and a half hours over a very bumpy unpaved road to a village called Denge. The lighter you are, the more you bounce, and when you're sitting on a wooden plank the bouncing can become quite painful after awhile! After spending a night in Denge, we hiked for a little over three hours uphill through rainforest to get to Wae Rebo. The village is dominated by five communal houses made of thatch in the shape of a bee-hive; together they house the bulk of the 42 families who call Wae Rebo home. The village sits in a valley that is actually an ancient volcanic crater. Surrounded by cloud forest, most of the time it is shrouded in mist. The people there produce coffee, growing it and then pounding and sifting it by...
Senaru on Lombok is the base from which you can climb to the crater rim of Gunung Rinjani. Perhaps we did not realise before we started the climb how difficult it would be. We started at 600m above sea level at about 9:30am, and seven hours of constant uphill climbing later, we got to the rim, at 2641m. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done, but, thankfully, one of the most rewarding as well. When we got to the top, we looked down into the crater to see the beautiful lake with another volcano inside it. So we were actually looking down into a volcano which was about 300m below us. To the left we could see the soaring summit of Gunung Rinjani (3726m), the second-highest mountain in Indonesia. It was phenomonal, but the view in the other direction was almost as good. During our climb we had gone through the clouds, and now we could see nothing but a bed of clouds, with the sun...
If you find yourself in Bali in August, ask around to find out in which villages mass cremation ceremonies (Ngaben Massal) will be held while you are there. It is an event that only takes place once a year in August in each of the various regions around Bali, and all the people who died in the previous year are cremated. The process at the ceremony we attended went something like this: All the bones of the deceased were placed in a purpose-built pagoda-like tower (bade), which was then carried by dozens of men to a cemetery. The bones were then transferred to a purpose-built sarcophagus in the shape of a lion lembu) - this took about 2 hours as they sarchophagus was not big enought to accommodate all the bones and offerings, so they had to tear it apart a bit and keep stuffing everything in until it finally fit. Then the lion was set on fire and the bones of 153 people and all the...
Tanjung Pitang National Park was a different experience from our other jungle trips, and by far the best one. The only access to the park is by river, so instead of trekking up mountains like before, we were able to hire a small boat and crew and cruise up a narrow river for two days with jungle on both sides of us. There is an Orang-Utan Rehabilitation Centre in the park, so we were able to see plenty more of those wonderful creatures. In addition to seeing them around the feeding stations - including seeing our first "King", or fully-grown male - we also spotted three, and one baby, from our boat while we were meandering up the river. There were also loads of monkeys in the trees on the river's banks, including the endangered proboscis monkey, found only in Borneo. These monkeys are unlike any other creature I've seen; they get their name from their huge noses. It was funny to us that...
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4 Reviews and 564 Opinions I had a fantastic stay in the old colonial Phoenix Hotel. It's a beautiful building and the staff...
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Q: Hello Folks, I am going to Indonesia and want an idea as to what is a realistic daily budget, a little further...
A: Motorcycle may cost you around 30-50k + 10k for the petrol. Say 50k on average for both basic accommodation will be around 100k-150k 30k-50k for the food so 300k...
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