The Dreamland of Bali

Bali is one of the 33 provinces of the Republic of Indonesia with its capital Denpasar, is located between Java and Lombok, covers an area of 5,636 km2 measuring just 90km long the north-south axis and less than about 140 km from west to east with population of over 3,000,000 souls.

There are various modes of transportation to get around Bali, from the traditional types of transportation to the high class limousine are available for tourist to choose. Also available the sea transportation that connect Bali to some of its sister islands. For the short distance you can use Bemo especially in the city of Denpasar. The Buses are available for transportation between towns and most places of the island through local bus stations. The most efficient and convenience transportation in the island is Taxi. There are some different companies providing taxi services and always available everywhere.

To explore Bali in half day or full day trip, the best way is hiring a car with the driver from private individual or travel agent. The other possibility is to rent a self drive car or motorbike, also bicycles are normally available for rent at hotels.

Bali Province divided into nine regencies with its own capital such as Buleleng, Jembrana, Karangasem, Badung, Denpasar, Gianyar, Klungkung and Bangli. Bali is formed by a mountain chain with some of the volcanic peaks are active, including Mount Agung, 3,142m and mount Batur 1717m. The north side of the mountain slopes is fairly steep, creating narrow lowland along the coastal area. Meanwhile, the south slopes are much leaner, forming a fertile plain that becomes the main center of Balinese culture. Some of the most beautiful white sandy beaches are in the south, including Sanur Beach, Kuta and Nusa Dua. The south slope also is home to four lakes, i.e. Lake Buyan, Lake Tamblingan, Lake Beratan, Lake Batur.

To get to Bali, there are several direct flight to Bali (Denpasar) from some parts of world that will make easy to go to Bali. From Jakarta, flight to Bali is about 1.5 hours, and from Singapore and Perth Australia 2.5 and 3 hours, from Hong Kong about 4.5 hours, and from Sydney or Melbourne about 5.5 to 6 hours, with various airlines offering their services.

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Visit Batu Bulan to Watch Barong Dance

BATUBULAN

Batubulan village was the border village between Gianyar and Badung. The distance from Denpasar City around 8 Km. Batubulan well known with the art stone statue. All art shop along the main road displayed the statue of the rocky stone.

These statues are generally used for the holy place or religion means. Later, the sculpture were use for the secondary interests like the garden decoration. Beside the rubble statue, Batubulan also has Barong Dance that was gotten 3 open stages open (Tegal Tamu, Puri Agung and the Puseh Bendul Temple), the place of the dance barong was staged daily, from 10,00 am, with the tourists as the main audience. The Group of barong dance was developed since 1970 's by all perspective up to now. In line with the tourism development, Batubulan currently also could be seen as the market handicraft product like silver/gold, ceramic, furniture and or the antique house accessories.

CELUK
Almost each Banjar in Singapadu had the gamelan unit, for the interests of the ceremony in the temple or the staging of the tourist attraction. Singapadu was known as the centre production of the barong mask. TheArt shop sold gold jewellery and silver (the brooch, the bracelet, the necklace, the ring et cetera) along the main road of the Celuk Village. The handicraft product of Celuk has penetrated the export market for a long time ago. The design has developed as the blend of the local Celuk and the international art that introduced through foreign tourists.

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Kuta Beach

Kuta is the most popular beach in Bali. The wide beach with white sand and facing to the West become the special attraction, so it presents a beautiful scenery and romantic when the sunset.


Kuta has come into the center of Bali tourism as a strategic location and has the most extensive facilities ranging from hotels, shopping centers, restaurants, recreation places and children's games and sports facilities.
Kuta Beach is also near from the airport, and make it easy whenever your arrive or depart from here

There are two beaches located adjacent to the Kuta coast, namely Legian and Seminyak beach. The location of those three coastal is connected so that this area is complemented each other and really had an interest taken by tourists to relax all day.
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