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01 : FULL DAY VOLCANO TOUR (approx. 8 hours)
ITINERARY

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Started
from the hotel around 08.30 am to Kesiman Village watching one
of the most famous Balinese Dance " BARONG ", visiting
the center of Balinese Batik Handycraft in Batubulan Village and
visiting the most famous Wood Carving Village " MAS ". |

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Visiting
an old meditation cave " GOA GAJAH " found in eleventh
century. The area around the cave is considered the oldest Buddhist
site with some old remains found around the place. A Hindu Temple
was built there with special holy spring fountains. |

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Driving
up to a nice and cool mountain side with its breath-taking view
of 1717 meters volcano called " MOUNT BATUR " surrounded
by lake and black lava remains from its twice main eruptions in
1917 and 1927. Great lunch is served in the best restaurant overlooking
the beautiful view. |
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Driving
back down to the country side visiting a beautiful Hindu Temple
in Sebatu Village with its holy spring. Sebatu Temple is one of
the Three Most Important Temples own by every villages in Bali
dedicated to the Hindu Thrinity. This temple is dedicated to the
God of Creator "BRAHMA". |
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Beautiful rice terraces view in Tegalalang Village will make your
trip memorable. The next stop will be in Ubud to visit the center
of Painting and Celuk Village, the home of Gold & Silver Smiths.
Then driving back to the hotel. |
BGR
02 : FULL DAY BESAKIH - TENGANAN TOUR (approx. 8 hours)
ITINERARY
Kerta
Gosa is a traditional religious court hall built in 1622 in Klungkung.
This hall is absolutely unique and different from any other building
in Bali. Its ceiling is fully decorated with typical Kamasan Painting
Style representing cause and effect between life in the world and after
death. Next the Kerta Gosa court hall, there is a beautiful floating
pavilion surrounded by water full of water lilies and lotuses. Its ceiling
is also fully decorated with Kamasan motifs. A beautiful and special
museum is also built on this complex. The museum contains many old remains
from Stone Age, Bronze Age and many old traditional artifacts. This
place is located in the heart of Semarapura City across the great city
monument.
Goa
Lawah means " Bat Cave ", a holy Hindu Temple located in a
rocky cliff cave. Thousands of long nose fruit bats live on this cave
and holy python snake as well. A holy high priest, Mpu Markandeya, arrived
here around 1007 and built a shrine to worship the God of Siwa and the
spirit of the mythical dragon, Basuki. In the front of this cave is
a beautiful soft black sand beach where people make salt in traditional
way.
Tenganan
is a very special Bali Aga Village which is isolated by hills around
beautiful and peaceful valley. The most special thing people can find
on this village is a double ikat called " Gringsing " which
means " Not Sick ". There are 3 places in the world where
this kind of woven textile can be found. The other two places are in
India and Japan. In Tenganan Village, the gringsing is considered a
holy magic part of the traditional dress used in special ceremony as
an amulet to protect the user from the evil spirit influence. Besides
Gringsing, this village is also popular for its ATA art and craft. ATA
is a strong palm grass grown in the hillside around this village.
A human blood sacrifice is held yearly here. When the ceremony called
" Makere-Kere " or " Mageret Pandan " is held, many
old, adult and young couples of fighters fight by beating each other
with sharp thorny pandanus leaves till the body scratched and bleeding
while the young girls are watching the show wearing gringsing.
Besakih
is the holiest Hindu Temple among all built by a high priest named Mpu
Markandeya in 11th century. The temple is located in the slope of Mount
Agung and considered to be the mother temple of Hindu in Bali and beyond.
In Besakih Temple Complex, there are some clan temple centers belong
to groups of Balinese from the same ancient. The biggest ceremony on
this temple is held every 100 years called " Eka Dasa Ludra "
to purify the entire world or macro cosmos. Here is where the Almighty,
the Supreme God, with all his manifestations is worshipped by all Hindu
followers.
BGR
03 : FULL DAY BALI COUNTRY SIDE TOUR (approx. 8 hours)
Tanah
Lot means " the land of ocean " is a wonderful Hindu Temple
built on a piece of cliff in Indian Ocean shore. This temple is dedicated
to the God of Ocean " Baruna " built by a high Hindu Priest
name Dang Hyang Dwijendra in the 16th century. In high tide, the cliff
is surrounded by water that the temple is like floating. In the bottom
part of the cliff there is a fresh water holy spring while on the beach
cave there are some holy snakes that guard the temple. In the South
and North part of the temple is absolutely beautiful view and best for
watching sunset (but no sunset in this tour program).
This
village is really the most beautiful country side with its breathtaking
view of rice terraces with mountain background and palm trees as well
as rivers. A scenic route driving a long the quiet country road passing
small villages, coffee and spices plantation will make the eyes always
open to enjoy and of course with many stops to take pictures.
Beratan
is a name of the Lake and Village. This place is very famous for its
beautiful park setting consisting of many kinds of flowers and trees.
Its spectacular floating temple called " Ulun Danu Temple "dedicated
to the Goddess of the lake is absolutely unforgettable place to take
a picture. It is so nice and cool and beautiful as well. People can
hire a traditional paddle boat or speed boat to go around the lake or
enjoy the jet sky and parasailing from the other corner of the lake.
Taman Ayun
means " a beautiful park", the biggest and the most beautiful
royal family temple built in 14th century. This temple is surrounded
by moat and has a beautiful park setting. The yard is big and it has
absolutely amazing carving in the main entrance and its shrines. This
temple is located in Mengwi village.
BGR
04: FULL DAY NORTH BALI TOUR (approx. 9 hours)
ITINERARY
Taman Ayun
means " a beautiful park", the biggest and the most beautiful
royal family temple built in 14th century. This temple is surrounded
by moat and has a beautiful park setting. The yard is big and it has
absolutely amazing carving in the main entrance and its shrines. This
temple is located in Mengwi village.
Beratan
is a name of the Lake and Village. This place is very famous for its
beautiful park setting consisting of many kinds of flowers and trees.
Its spectacular floating temple called " Ulun Danu Temple "dedicated
to the Goddess of the lake is absolutely unforgettable place to take
a picture. It is so nice and cool and beautiful as well. People can
hire a traditional paddle boat or speed boat to go around the lake or
enjoy the jet sky and parasailing from the other corner of the lake.
Gitgit
is the most spectacular waterfall on the island. The fresh clear mountain
water volumes remains big flowing along the rainforest river side. The
big water falls unbroken from 45 meter high rocky cliff. The 500 meters
path to this waterfall is absolutely nice walk with beautiful view of
spices trees, coffee plantation, rice field and rain forest. People
can swim down the natural pool under the fall.
Banjar
Hot Spring is located in the beautiful and peaceful valley consisting
of some hot water fountains and a lazy pool to release tension and healing
skin problem. The hot spring is coming out just in the middle of valley
surrounded by rainforest of the hill side.
Brahma
Wihara Arama is the biggest and the most special Buddhist Monastery
in Bali completed in 1970. There are many features dealing with Buddhism
in this monastery complex like Uruvella Forest, Body tree, Buddhist
Stupa, and others and there are also some special features given by
the government of Thailand and The Great Dalai Lama from Tibet. This
place is located high up in the hill. People may see the beautiful view
of the ocean, rice field and mountain. It is so nice and peaceful around
this area.
Driving
back to the hotel through the most scenic road of central Bali countryside
to enjoy the best landscape view of rice terraces, spices plantations,
mountain, and rain forest.
BGR
05 : FULL DAY BEDUGUL - TANAH LOT TOUR (approx. 8 hours)
Tanah
Lot means " the land of ocean " is a wonderful Hindu Temple
built on a piece of cliff in Indian Ocean shore. This temple is dedicated
to the God of Ocean " Baruna " built by a high Hindu Priest
name Dang Hyang Dwijendra in the 16th century. In high tide, the cliff
is surrounded by water that the temple is like floating. In the bottom
part of the cliff there is a fresh water holy spring while on the beach
cave there are some holy snakes that guard the temple. In the South
and North part of the temple is absolutely beautiful view and best for
watching sunset (but no sunset in this tour program).
Alas Kedaton
means " Jungle Kingdom ", but probably a monkey kingdom because
the place is very popular for its tame monkeys living around. There
is also a 300 year old Hindu Temple in the middle of the monkey forest.
And high up on the trees, big fruit bats are resting during the day
time. It is a big fun to visit this place because of the monkeys, bat
and temple.
Beratan
is a name of the Lake and Village. This place is very famous for its
beautiful park setting consisting of many kinds of flowers and trees.
Its spectacular floating temple called " Ulun Danu Temple "dedicated
to the Goddess of the lake is absolutely unforgettable place to take
a picture. It is so nice and cool and beautiful as well. People can
hire a traditional paddle boat or speed boat to go around the lake or
enjoy the jet sky and parasailing from the other corner of the lake.
Taman Ayun
means " a beautiful park", the biggest and the most beautiful
royal family temple built in 14th century. This temple is surrounded
by moat and has a beautiful park setting. The yard is big and it has
absolutely amazing carving in the main entrance and its shrines. This
temple is located in Mengwi village.
BGR
06: HALF DAY TANAH LOT SUNSET TOUR (approx. 5 hours)
ITINERARY
Taman Ayun
means " a beautiful park", the biggest and the most beautiful
royal family temple built in 14th century. This temple is surrounded
by moat and has a beautiful park setting. The yard is big and it has
absolutely amazing carving in the main entrance and its shrines. This
temple is located in Mengwi village.
Alas
Kedaton means " Jungle Kingdom ", but probably a monkey kingdom
because the place is very popular for its tame monkeys living around.
There is also a 300 year old Hindu Temple in the middle of the monkey
forest. And high up on the trees, big fruit bats are resting during
the day time. It is a big fun to visit this place because of the monkeys,
bat and temple.
Tanah Lot
means " the land of ocean " is a wonderful Hindu Temple built
on a piece of cliff in Indian Ocean shore. This temple is dedicated
to the God of Ocean " Baruna " built by a high Hindu Priest
name Dang
Hyang Dwijendra in the 16th century. In high tide, the cliff is surrounded
by water that the temple is like floating. In the bottom part of the
cliff there is a fresh water holy spring while on the beach cave there
are some holy snakes that guard the temple. In the South and North part
of the temple is absolutely beautiful view and best for watching sunset.
BGR
07: HALF DAY ULUWATU SUNSET - JIMBARAN SEAFOOD DINNER (approx. 5
hours)
ITINERARY
GWK
is a statue of Wisnu, the God of protector, on His mythical bird, the
great Garuda. It will be the landmark of Bali as the center of Hinduism.
The size of the GWK statue is 146 meter high and 283 meter above the
sea level. The bird's wings is 66 meter wide and the total weight is
4000 tons. The statue is made of mix copper and brass welding and several
parts coat with mosaic of gold. The 146 meter high consists of two parts,
the principal constituent of the statue and the pedestal functioning
as the central of world cultural forum and other purposes. The statue
will be the highest one in the world and the whole project is still
in progress. At the meanwhile, people can see about 15% of the statue
which is 22 meter high and the whole thing is planned to be completed
in 2005
Uluwatu
means " the head of stone", one of the most spectacular Hindu
temple along the coast line built by a high Hindu priest from East Java
named Dang Hyang Dwijendra in the 16th century. This beautiful temple
is located on top of a stiff limestone cliff about 90 meters above the
Indian Ocean. This place is great to visit for having fun with the monkeys
living around the temple and watching sunset.
Jimbaran
is very well known for its best seafood barbeque and its typical Jimbaran
souce. Tables and chairs for dinner are set along the beautiful white
sandy beach. People can enjoy great food and spectacular sunset view.
This place is highly recommended to visitors to have dinner once while
in Bali. Do not miss it !!!
BGR
08: HALF DAY UBUD SHOPPING TOUR (approx. 5 hours)
ITINERARY
Batu
Bulan is very special village which is famous as the center of stone
carving. Along the road side of this village, people can see various
kinds of statue representing Gods, demons, Budha, animals, birds, temples,
and many other stone things. At the beginning, all the statues were
made and bought by Balinese people for the need of temple construction
and decoration, but more and more tourists like to take the stone carving
home to their country and it has become a big stone carving business
now in that village. There are three major kinds of stone carving. The
black color is made of lava rock, the white color is made of lime stone,
and the
grey one is made of sand stone and all the materials can be easily found
in Bali.
Visiting
the most popular monkey forest in Ubud with its beautiful rain forest,
holy spring, temple of the dead and hundreds of friendly monkeys living
around.
Mas
Village is a part of Ubud which is very famous for its wood carving.
People can see the artists at work, carving the ebony, mahagony, sandalwood,
crocodile wood, hibiscus and other kinds of woods for carving.
Celuk village
is definitely the center of gold and silver production. Here is the
smith house and you may just come to one of the place and ask the artist
to make your gold or silver jewelry you like or just choose from their
big collections. The silver and gold materials come from other part
of Indonesia because in Bali there is no mining. They have a great art
mining on their head to make whatever they like or any design people
ask them to make.
Ubud is
absolutely interesting place to visit because of its art painting and
crafts. Ubud is a name of a district consisting of some villages with
its own speciality. On this program we will take you to one of the most
popular painting village to see the artists at work and their collections.
BGR
09: HALF DAY DENPASAR CITY TOUR (approx. 5 hours)
ITINERARY
Bali Musium
is an ethnographic museum built in 1932 in the heart of Denpasay City.
It has a unique architecture because the construction is a combination
of temple and palace structure. The building consists of three different
complex representing Karang Asem, Buleleng, and Tabanan regency. The
three buildings have a splendid collection of Balinese art, culture
and tradition remains, Neolithic stone implements and many other things
from ancient time.
This
market is really an interesting place to visit for those who love bird,
Hundreds of bird species are put in the cages for sale. People can see
many different type of birds and hear their beautiful sounds. For Balinese
people, some kinds of birds bring a good luck to the owner but most
people like to keep birds for fun.
The Art
Center named "Taman Werdi Budaya" is
very special place set in a beautiful city garden with typical Balinese
design and architecture. It represents the greatness of Balinese art
and culture where the traditional Balinese art festival and exhibition
is held for a month every year, usually from the middle of June till
the middle of July. The big event is also participated by some other
countries like Japan, Korea, etc. This place is like a museum for the
old things and a nursery place for a new and young creation as well
as to introduce all kinds of art and cultural products in Bali.
This
great monument is built just right in the middle of Renon Square where
usually people do exercise early in the morning and just having refreshment
around in the late afternoon. The building has just finished a few years
ago and it has a shape of a priest bell called "Bajra" which
is used when the priest is leading ceremony. This monument is now considered
to be the land mark of the city. The most unique thing about this place
is that the whole construction is made of lava rock with beautiful structure
and carving.
BGR
10: HALF DAY NUSA DUA - KUTA TOUR (approx. 5 hours)
ITINERARY
Nusa
Dua is the youngest tourist resort in Bali. Most of big and fancy 5
star hotels are located on this area. The development of this resort
was booming in 1980's but very well cared and controlled by Bali Tourism
Development Center (BTDC). It has a wide and long soft and clean sand
beach which is best for marine sport like jet sky, speed boat, banana
boat, parasailing, snorkling and many others. If you take any of this
fun activities, it will be on your account.
Kuta
is the busiest tourist area on the island because of its beautiful beach
which has a clean soft white sand stretching long and wide from the
south to the north around 25 kilometers. The beach is great for surfing,
swimming and sun-bathing while watching a beautiful sunset. Not only
for fun, Kuta is also a paradise for those who like shopping and night
life.
BGR
11: KECAK - DINNER TOUR (approx. 4 hours)
ITINERARY
It
is also called Monkey Dance, a very popular traditional Balinese Dance
without any music instruments. This dance is performed by a big group
of bear-chessted men wearing black and white cloth around the waist
and sing a chorus of " Chak-Chak-Chak ". The story is derived
from the Graet Ramayana Epic. Then continued by the trance dance, also
called Fire Dance. This dance is definitely interesting because the
trance dancer will step on the fire while dancing. A couple of little
girls will end this show by performing an angel dance for purification.
After the
dance, you will be taken to a great restaurant around Sanur Area for
having dinner with entertainment (dinner on personal account).
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