Bedugul Botanical Garden

Bedugul Botanical Garden or Kebun Raya Eka Karya is a beautiful tropical garden which is located in Tabanan Regency. It was built on July 15, 1959. In Bedugul Botanical Garden, there are various collections of tropical plants. They are cactus which is specially placed in Cactus Greenhouse, the ferns, orchids, roses, palms, bamboos, and some collections of medical plants. Bedugul Botanical Garden also provides 3 temples –as the places to pray specially for Hindus– and a guest-house for the scientists who are doing observation.

For you who love challenging games, you can try Bali Treetop Adventure. It’s one of the facilities of this garden. It’s a attractive games on the tree which has 6 different levels, from the lowest are yellow, green, orange, blue, red, and black. Each level has different difficulty, the highest level, black, has location of 20 meters high from the ground.

Bedugul botanical garden has close location to Beratan Lake dan Buyan Lake. When you come here and go to the area near the guest house, you can enjoy the beautiful scene of Buyan Lake. And if you are lucky, you also can enjoy the beautiful rainbow that appeared after the rain which sometimes appears here.
I hope this information will be useful, thank you :)

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Tanah Lot

Tanah Lot is one of tourism-place you must visit when you come to Bali :) Tanah Lot is a beach which is located in Beraban Village in Tabanan Regency. Tanah Lot has very beautiful scenery when the sunset comes.

According to Balinese Myth, in 15th century, Dang Hyang Nirartha traveled along south coast and found this beautiful place. So he rested here, and some fishermen found him. Then he told the fishermen to build a temple to be a holy place to worship the Balinese Sea Gods.
In the caves of the rock, there many holly snake live. They are believed to protect the temple from the evil spirit. Some of the snakes are also poisonous. If you want to touch the holly snakes that live in the cave, you have to donate voluntarily for the development of the temple.
To reach the temple, we have to walk through a traditional Balinese markets. The markets sold some Balinese handicrafts. Some restaurants are also available on the way to reach the temple. There's also a place to take some photos with a big python or a bat.
By the way, don't forget to taste traditional Indonesian food called "klepon".  It's round-shaped, which often has green color and covered by grated coconut. It's delicious :D

So, when you visit Bali, don't forget to visit Tanah Lot and have an unforgetable moment here :)

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Kuta Beach

Kuta Beach is one of many beautiful beach in Bali which has a great appeal for the tourists who come to Bali. Many local tourists or even foreign tourists come here, especially on holiday. Kuta Beach is located in Badung Regency, Southern Denpasar.

Kuta Beach is very famous for the very beautiful sunset view. No wonder when the sunset comes, Kuta Beach always full of tourists. Beside the great view of the sunset, this beach also has a pretty good waves for water sports, like surfing. Many surfer, ranging from the beginner to the expert come to this place to enjoy surfing here. As you can see on the pic, there are so many tourists there.
At night, Kuta Beach is alive with night life. Many discotheques, dance clubs, and pubs are visited by the tourists. There are also some restaurants that serve many kinds of food, start from Balinese Foods to International Foods. If you are lucky, you can enjoy the performance of Balinese Dancers that staged in the restaurant. The shopping-places are also visited, we can find Balinese handicrafts here. I suggest, if you want to go to Kuta at night, you should go on foot. Because, if you bring your car, you'll spend a lot of your time to wait for traffic-jam than enjoying of this place :)
I hope this information will be useful, thanks for the visit. Comments and suggestions are welcome :)

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Garuda Wisnu Kencana

Garuda Wisnu Kencana is one of some beautiful park in Bali which is located in Nusa Dua. Garuda Wisnu Kencana has very strategic location with only about 10 minutes drive from Ngurah Rai Airport :)

The pic of Wisnu Plaza
According to the information I got on my last visit, when all the separated statue of Wisnu and Garuda is perfectly attached, the height of the statue will be 150 meters with 64 meters wide of the wings. Garuda Wisnu Kencana Statue has its own meaning which describes Lord Wisnu -one of Hindu's God that controls our universe- and the Garuda that's believed as the bird which leads us to Amerta. For now, all the statue of Garuda Wisnu Kencana haven't attached and they're placed in different places. The Wisnu Statue's placed in the Plaza Wisnu. From this place, we can enjoy the great view of Kuta, Benoa, and Sanur. In this plaza, there's Parahyangan Somaka Giri, a holy spring continually spews out clear water through a stone bowl which many people believe it can cure illnesses or give you a long life. As for the Garuda Statue's placed in Plaza Garuda which is located just behind Plaza Wisnu.
On my school study tour, I visited Garuda Wisnu Kencana. And I had photographed some photos :D Check them out! Hehe :)
I hope this information will be useful. Thanks for the visit :)

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Joger

As one of tourist destination, Bali must have souvenir shops. One of them is Joger :D If you've been to Bali and you didn’t visit this one, it means your holiday in Bali wasn’t perfect :D

Sorry, I don't have my own Joger Picture :( So I searched to Google, and I found this pic
At first, Joger just available in Kuta. But now, Joger is also available on the road to Bedugul. Joger, as the famous souvenir shop in Bali, sells many kinds of unique souvenirs. One of the biggest attraction of Joger is the unique T-shirt which contains funny and attractive quotes. No wonder if every holiday season comes, Joger always visited by the tourists who jostled for a variety of unique trinkets there :D
Incidentally, yesterday my family and I went to walk to Bedugul and passed Joger. Out of curiosity, I was visiting there. And when I entered the shop, I was surprised, there was many visitors came there to shop! In Joger, I bought some knick-knacks like a lion-shaped glass that look very funny. I also bought some shirts, one of them has black color with Joger-writing. For the price, it isn’t a problem. I think, the price offered there is quite cheap. Moreover, the souvenirs which are sold here is very unique, of course, the price doesn’t matter :D
So, are you interested to buy some of unique souvenirs from Joger? Don’t miss out on holiday to Bali without buying souvenirs in Joger :D

I hope this information will be useful for you :) Comments and suggestions are welcome: D
Btw, when I visited the Joger in Bedugul, I photographed a lotus in the pond in the Joger area. What do you think about the picture? Hehe :D

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Villa Jepun Seminyak

Still in the Christmas and New Year Holiday in the month of December, I went back to get vacation in Bali :)
But yes, we willt be tired to traveling.. Well, I think I need to find a hotel. Incidentally, I have a friend, and he has a villa in the Seminyak, Bali. Who would not want to stay near Seminyak? There's lots of places to shop in Seminyak :D
The name of the villa is Villa Jepun. This villa is located on Nakula Street in Legian. It's a nice villa, there are 5 separate villas. There are also Internet network :D There's a swimming pool, so you can swim in there.
By the way, I had an opportunity to photograph this villa :D Here is the picture :

It's nice, isn't it? :)

For more information you can googling it :D
Don't forger to give a comment! Thanks for reading :D

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Rafting at Ayung River

On December 18th, 2009, my dad's friends from Mataram came to Bali for a vacation. They were on vacation for 3 days. During the holidays, they plan to visit some tourism-places in Bali :D When they dropped by my house, they invited me to come with them. Yea! So happy :D Our first destination is to Ubud. There, we would hold a rafting :D

Rafting Program that we use for rafting is Mega Rafting. Incidentally, my father was googling to find information about some rafting programs in Bali. And my father was interested to try Mega Rafting, because Mega Rafting has the longest track, which is 10 km.

The services offered was quite good. To get to the Mega Rafting, we were picked up using a mini-bus that can hold approximately 16 people. After arriving at Mega Rafting, we were greeted by very friendly. After confirmed the cost of rafting, we were welcome to wait to get ready. During the wait we could get a drink like tea or coffee which free of charge. Then we were welcome to use the rafting equipments, like helmets and buoy. Once ready, we headed to the Ayung River, which lies below the preparation-place. To get there, we had to down about 400 steps of the stair. Then, we prepared the boat, and got rafting :D During rafting, there are lots of very beautiful view! Our boat several times stucked on big rocks, but then get through. That was very exciting! As already known, the distance from start point to the finishing point is 10 km, and it takes approximately 2 hours.

This is my pic, the girl on the left-side is me :D
After we reached the finishing point, we were invited to clean the body then we can get a lunch from the restaurant which were there. Ater that, we can back up the stairs to return to the parking lot and go home.

This rafting experience is one of my experiences to enjoy the beauty of Bali. This is an unforgettable experience! Especially, this rafting was guided by professional guides who are experienced so there weren't any doubt :D

In addition, during the way to the parking lot, I also photographed some exciting objects! I think the result was quite good for a beginner photographer like me :D
want to see the results? Check this out! :D

That's all about my first destination on my December Holiday :D

Don't forget to gimme a comment :)

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About Me

This is me on photograph :)

Hi, I'm Ri Ya, the owner of this blog :D. I'm on Blogger since November 2008, but this blog was made in December 2009. I joined Blogger because my ITC teacher in my junior high school told me to try blogging. When i started joining Blogger, I had no idea how to design a useful and nice blog. So I learned how to design it. I spent many times on the computer, googling, searching :D Finally, I succeed to make my first blog ! It presented in Bahasa Indonesia. But now, I never manage it anymore. And I made this new blog.
I intentionally presented this blog using English so it will easily understood. This blog was created as a little home for my experiences during my stay in Bali. Besides that, I also provide some information about some of the tourism-places in Bali.
I hope you can enjoy looking for information on my blog :D
Check out my photo-projects on Flickr :)

Thanks for visiting :D

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