Exploring Bali Island

Bali is part of Indonesia country and is subject to Indonesian Laws. Bali is the island that located in 8 to 9 degress south of equator between Java Island in the West and Lombok Island in the East. From Java Island, Bali can be reached less than 30 minutes or only two kilometers. Flying time from Jakarta is about 1.5 hours, from Singapore is about 2.5 hours and from Australia is about 3 hours. Bali is the island that recognized as beautiful place, call with name The Gods Island. There are lush tropical forests, pristine crater lakes, fast flowing rivers and deep ravines, picturesque rice terraces, and fertile vegetable and fruit gardens. The beaches in the South consist of white sand, beaches in other parts of the island are covered with gray or black volcanic sand.

As island that located in tropical area, Bali given with many various tropical plant. You'll see huge banyan trees in villages and temple grounds, tamarind trees in the North, clove trees in the highlands, acacia trees, flame trees, and mangroves in the South. For flowers, you can find them in many location with many variety. You'll find jasmine, orchid, water lili and many frangipanies. You must knowing that frangipanies is the popular flower in Bali. They used as decoratins in temples and statues. Frangipanies are also used during prayers, for dancer crown decorations and even put in the ear. For wildlife, elephants and tigers don't exist anymore, they extincted since early this century. But there are so many activities in wildlife area. Bali have various species of monkeys, civets, deers and more than 300 species of birds.

Bali is place that combined the friendly people, uniqe culture, the natural attractions, the large variety of local lifestyle and more. Bali has a special characters of religi with mystic and magics. You can explore the cultural heritage start from the visible thing, there are over 20,000 temples and palaces with many colorful festifals and ceremonies. You can enjoyed the local drama, music and dance. You can find one of the uniqe ritual dance that call Kecak Dance. Kecak Dance is very impressive with its circular chorus of sometimes over 100 bare chested male singer. And for another attraction you will see Fire Dance, Ramayana Dance, Legong Dance and many more.

In Bali you can do more great activities. You can do the water sports like swimming, snorkeling, boat rides, water ski, surfing, and more. You can do all of that activities in Tanjung Benoa, Kuta Beach or Sanur Beach. If you bored with beach and water activities, you can change your destination tours. Now you must try the nature tour. There are Lake Batur in Kintamani village, the high location, is about 5,000 feet above the sea. Another places that you can visit is Besakih Temple that popular name is The "Mother Temple". You can visit to the Bedugul, Sangeh, Ulun Danu, Tana Lot and many more.

For handicraft you can visit the artisan villages of Batubulan for stone carving, Celuk for silver and gold jewelry, Mas with famous wood carving and Pengosekan for painting. You can also visit Art Market Sukowati and bargain for all kinds of handicraft and apparel. For the most art gallery, you can enjoyed Ubud, that growing with numerous art galleries and shop offering paintings, wood carvings, textiles and all kinds of souvenirs. (kilasberita.com)