Bali

Bali has many (delicious) traditional foods. You can name them such as Bebek Betutu (Betutu Duck), Sate Lilit Ikan (Fish Satay). This time, I will tell you about Bebek Bengil (Bengil Duck).

Many restaurant catered Bebek Bengil, but you can try bebek bengil restaurant in Jalan Hanoman-Padang Tegal-Ubud.

Well, for complete story, you can read mr Budi’s experience here. the pic was taken from here

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Golf tournament, Indonesia Open 2009, will be held in Bali. This is the first time the tournament takes Bali as location, since the tournament has another goal, to introduce Bali for the participant who never visit Bali before.

Indonesia Open will took New Kuta Golf Resort, a golf resort location in southwest Peninsula Bali, on Feb 26 - March 1 2009.

Some top golfers will attend in this tournament, especially from Europe and Asia.

Hmm…Feb, huh?! Is it possibel for me to watch this tournament? Hope so.

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Finally, the bomber of Bali Bomb, Amrozi, Imam Samudera, and Ali Gufron were executed yesterday morning, at 00.15 WIB, in Nusakambangan. Many reactions were came up after their execution.

For the Bali Bomb victim, they are grateful for the execution since they have been waiting for 6 years after the incident. Read full entry »

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Today, 6 years ago, Bali was shocked by a bomb in Legiun, Kuta.

Tourism in Bali was collaps for couple years, since tourists couldn’t trust the security in Bali. Indonesia became a bomb country, and many countries forbide their citizens to visit Indonesia (some countries are still give warning).

Last year, I visited the ground zero, and took picture there. give my symphaty for Bali bomb victims

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You know what, during this vacation, there are many tourists invaded gallery art in Bali. For example, Guwang gallery art in Gianyar. The visitor is more or less than 4 times, yupp… FOUR TIMES, than usual visiting season.

Those tourists bought many things, Balinese textile, clothes, and many more. Read full entry »

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Toward Lebaran holiday, many hotels in Bali were full booked. Well, since majority in Bali is Hindunese, I’m sure the tourists who booked the rooms, not person who back to Bali to celebrate Lebaran. well, maybe there are some people, Moslem I mean, who back to Bali, but I’m not sure they booked many rooms

The harbour activity is also increasing. Gilimanuk is quite crowded. Ngurah Rai airport too. Fiuuhhh.

Well, happy Lebaran holiday for all of you!! Enjoy your traveling in Bali!

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Balai Konservasi Sumber Daya Alam Bali (Bali Conservation Nature Resource) seized hundreds of crustacean, that will be smuggled out from Bali. The type of crustaceans that were seized are Triton Trompet (Trumpet Triton) left pic and Nautilus Berongga (Hollow Nautilus) right pic, which are quite expensive.Those crustaceans were grouped by Balinese garment and other handycraft, in order to deceive the officers. The X-ray scanning is the key, how this smuggling can be prevented.

The destinations of the package is New Caledonia.

This incident is still being investigated by competent officers. Hope they can solve this. news from here, the pics were taken from here and here

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More than 6,000 visitors/day came to Bali on August 2008. The exact number, 191,557 visitors came and visited Bali. This number was released by Imigration office. The visitor who left Bali, in the same period, is about 203,959 persons. It means, there is defisit number, about 12,402 visitors.

This number is quite increasing, if we compare with Jan 2008. On that month, it was only about 4,706 visitors/day.

Well, since August is a summer (holiday) season, there is no wonder the number of visitor was increasing on that month. Other fact is, Bali is quite interesting destination for tourists. smile

The challenge is, how Bali Government (in this case, Bali Tourism Department) can manage Bali more effective and efficient, so the benefit from this visitors can be optimized.

the pic was taken from here, news from here

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Kite is one of Balinese culture. When my family visited Bali annually, when I was a little kid, my father always take me to visit a place where people played kites. Maybe there were 20-30 kites on the sky, try to find the rival and decide who is the best.

These day, kite competition was seldom to be held, as far as I know. Well, at least in the village that I visited, my cousin said that this culture is getting extinct.

Maybe based on that, some artists try to keep this culture exist. They teach how to make a kite to the tourists who want to learn it. One of center of the course is in Dewatan, 25 km northeast from Denpasar. You can also find in Ubud tourism village.

Hmmm…this is the best solution to keep the culture from extinct. Good luck! the pic was taken from here

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Umanis Galungan is a holy day for Hindunese, especially in Bali. It occurs a day after Galungan (August 20).

On that day, each family will visit their relatives, to apologize their faults in the past. After that, they will visit the tourist destinations, such as Bedugul, Tanah Lot, and others. During that day, like Galungan day, all offices were closed, except hospitals.

For your information, there are 3 day celebration for Galungan. They are Penampahan Galungan, Galungan, and Umanis Galungan.

The activities was getting normal on Friday. the news and pic were taken from here

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