Bali

Nowadays it’s quite difficult to find origin Balinese life since there are many progress in the society. Well, at least if we compare with 20-30 years ago. So, many people who had ever came to Bali, miss the origin atmosphere.

That’s why Bali Classic Centre (BCC) was established, to help people feel the atmosphere. It also help people to know Balinese culture without traveling around Bali.

In BCC, you can see “sabung ayam” (chicken fighting), genjek traditional culture, and many more.

You can visit BCC in Ubud Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali.

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I hardly to believe those pairs of tourists from Australia and Srilanka do criminal in Bali. They stole a bag, quite expensive, about Rp 1.9juta (almost US$190) in The Living Room boutique.

This action was be done by the husband. He took away the bag while his wife try to distract the store keeper. Boutique staffs succeeded catch the husband and they found there is no transaction indication for the bag.

Right now, the husband is being suspect meanwhile the wife became witness since the wife claimed she didn’t know her husband stole the purse.

Pic and news from here.

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Bali is being targeted as destination by 38% tourists who came to Indonesia. This data came from Bali Tourists Observer, Tjokorda Gde Agung. He also said the tourism in Goddess Island has good prospect in the future. This prediction based on economic condition which is getting better, the security in Bali is also increasing, and the transportation is getting easier.

Well, I agree with Mr Gde Agung. Bali has a very bright prospect in tourism as the local government can provide good accomodation and manage the tourism object properly. Nowadays, many tourists complained about the environment in Bali is not quite friendly.

Hmmm…I don’t quite understand what kind of friendly that they mentioned. AFAIK, Balinese is quite warm and open to tourists.

I hope next year, the tourists who came to Bali can increase, well at least 39% or higher.

Pic from here. News from here.

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French Airline, Air France, made a collaboration with KLM, Dutch Airlines, to establish a direct flight from Amsterdam to Denpasar (via Singapore). Air France - KLM Country Manager, Axel Colen, said this statement after met Denpasar major IB Rai Dharmawijaya Mantra, SE. Msi on Tuesday.

This direct flight was established since many Europan Tourists have a quite high demand to flight (direct) to Bali. Recently, European tourists who want to visit Bali must transit in Jakarta, before they take a flight to Bali.

The frequency of flight is medium level, three times a week, on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, using Boeing 300 with 425 passengers capacities.

Hmm..nice news. So, Bali must prepare a lot of things to greet those tourists. Don’t you agree?

Pic from here. News from here.

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Well, the title doesn’t mean a tourist does a criminal thing. But recently, many tourists had been criminilized, such as “jambret” (well, i’m not sure about the English term, so I still use the origin one) and stealing.

At least 3 tourists were being “jambret” and stolen in 3 different places. John Malcolmbucher from Australia, Laila Mehdi from Holland, and Hannes Bublitz from German got their nightmare, being a victim for a criminal action. Some money and stuffs were missing and I think their loss is quite significant.

The most important thing is the police department, especially Bali police department, must increase their supervision and control in some public area, especially if there are many tourists. Because security is the most important thing for Bali and many destinations. Once a tourist feel not comfort with the existing security, I believe he/she doesn’t want to visit in the future.

Denpasar Chief Head Officer, Suwetra, promises to investigate and try to solve this problems.

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Since Julia Roberts visited Bali for her shooting, there is a new term for Bali. It is called as Island of Love!

Bali Governor, Made Mangku Pastika, said this on Saturday in Denpasar. He said this new term will make easier to promote Bali to the world.

For your information, Bali has many terms such as Island of God, Island with Thousand Puras, and many more. With this new term, Island of Love, it will give Bali a positive opinion as destination. It also gives significant support. So, we hope many tourists will visit Bali.

Name Island of Love reflects Bali as a peaceful & secure place. We also can say that Bali will support anything that related with love.

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It has been couple weeks since Julia Roberts took shoot in Bali for her movies “Eat, Pray, Love”. This movies based on true story of Elizabeth Gilbert.

For this movies, many places in Bali had been visited and seems Julia Roberts enjoyed her acting in those places. Kuta beach and Batur lake are some places where Elizabeth Gilbert had had visited in her journey in order to find what is love.

The shooting will be ended on November 11.

Well, I hope Bali will be more famous since it will be mentioned (a lot, of course) in the movie.

Pic from here.

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Bali is still a favorite destination for Chinese tourists. We can see the fact from the statistic during Jan - Aug 2009. From 231,981 Chinese tourists, it’s about 135,690 (60%) choose Bali as their destination.

This can be happened, since the promotion about Bali is quite frequent in China. Soon or later, this promotion made many Chinese tourists attract and try to find out why Bali is so special. So, they choose Bali as their destination for their vacation.

Well, there is no wonder why Bali can attract many Chinese tourists. Destination, culture, beach (and the sand) can hypnotize every tourists who had visited.

So, how about you? Have you ever visit Bali?

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Well, even Australian tourists became a largest number of victims during Bali, there is no reason for them to take Bali out from their list of destination. Well, at least that’s I read from here. The number of Australian tourists are still quite high to visit Bali, direct (landing in Ngurah Rai airport) or indirect (came from other cities in Indonesia).

However, they are also choose other destinations for their vacation such as Makassar, Manado, and Minangkabau. But, after they visited those destinations, most of them go to Bali before they go home.

Pic from here.

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Happy Eid Mubarak!

I’m sorry for my faults on this blog. :-)

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