Bali Travel Map

Lay down on a long lazy chair, companied with cold soft drink and french fries in a bamboo basket, viewing the beautiful white sand and the horizon of blue; it is a perfect dream which will be come true if we have reached The Dreamland beach.

Dreamland beach is located at Pecatu – Jimbaran Bali. It is about 45 km far from Denpasar city. We can reach that place through the giant project of Pecatu Indah Resort. And to get into the beach area we have to pay entrance fee which is usually only IDR2000 for a motorbike and IDR5000 for a car. Unfortunately, sometimes we will get confused with the tariff caused by the ‘officer’who has been on purpose scrambling and marking up the tariff for their own benefits.

To anyone who responsible for this area, please pay attention and do something to stop this monkey business. If we are trying to promote and proclaim the dreamland beach as one of the best destination in Bali, let’s take care and keep the beach ‘clean’

Alas Kedaton is a small forest with the width about 6-7ha located in the middle of the rice field in Kukuh countryside, Marga Sub district, Tabanan regency, west of Bali. The total size of this forest, temple and its facility is about 12 ha. In this forest, there is a temple called Alas Kedaton Temple and owns the natural environments that is looked green with fresh air and the calm, quite and holy atmosphere.

The monkeys in Alas Kedaton are very tame and free gallivanting in temple yard, so that the calm atmosphere is sometime disturbed by noisy voice of the monkeys, which are playing around and scrambling of food. The monkeys who dwell in this forest, there are jump up and down in temple wall, take a bath in moat or there is also hang out in few leaves representing impression view. The monkey like as custodian of temple, which are always ready to greet all visitor who are paying a visit to this place. Beside monkeys, in Kedaton forest also can be met the bats and some other animals. At least 24 types of grove plant have been identified in this forest.

Alas Kedaton Temple Festival

The ceremony in alas Kedaton temple is carried out every 210 days a year. It is on Anggarakasih Medangsia (Balinese Hindu Calendar) or on every Tuesday where on that time the society do the worship or pray to request the safety and prosperity. The unique in this ceremony is do not use the fire and do not hence Penjor and also finished before the sunset or before the night is come.

Tanah Lot Temple is located in the south of Tabanan Regency, precisely in countryside of Beraban, district of Kediri. It is about + 12 km apart from Tabanan town and + 25 km from Denpasar. The temple is built above land of coral reef with size more than 3 acre (wide: 202.830 m2 and circle: 2.509 m).

The word of “Tanah Lot” consisted of two words that are Tanah word means land (isle) and Lot or Lod word has meaning the sea. So Tanah Lot is meaning “The small island floating on the sea”. Tanah Lot is said to be the work of the 15th century priest Nirartha. The story goes that during his travels along the south coast he saw the rock-island’s beautiful setting and rested there. Some fishermen saw him, and bought him gifts. Nirartha then spent the night on the little island. Later he spoke to the fishermen and told them to build a shrine on the rock for he felt it to be a holy place to worship the Balinese sea gods. Tanah Lot temple was then built and has been an important part of Balinese mythological history for centuries. The temple is one of seven sea temples around the Balinese coast. It was said that each of the sea temples was to be within eyesight of the next so that they formed a chain along the south-western coast.

As a favorite tourism object in Bali, Tanah Lot has been visited by one million of domestic and foreign tourist every year. Because Tanah Lot owns a magnificent view in particular at the sunset time where the sun slows down to the earth stomach. Every visitor will be marveled to see the beauty panorama of Tanah Lot. Its Coast is rock bound and its wave is big adds the beauty of Tanah Lot Temple which can be seen from various location. To reach the temple, visitors must walk through a carefully planned set of Balinese market-format souvenir shops which cover each side of the path down to the sea. On the mainland cliff tops, restaurants are built for the tourists to relax. Beside of Tanah Lot Temple there are other temples which can be seen on your visit to Tanah Lot like Batu Bolong Temple, Batumejan Temple and Enjung Galuh Temple.

At some nooks of coral reef around Tanah Lot Temple there are holy tame snake in black and white color and it is believed as the guard of the temple from the bad influence and evil spirits. It is also believed that this snake was created from Nirartha’s scarf when he established the island. Part of its stomach there no athwart skin, there’s only small skin, but this sea water snake very noxious but snakebite case are very den happened, because the sea water snake generally very passive. People cannot disturb these snakes because according to the belief, they belong to the God in the Temple.

The temple sits on a huge offshore rock which has been shaped continuously over the years by the ocean tide. In 1980 the temple’s rock face was starting to crumble and the area around and inside the temple started to become dangerous. The Japanese government then provided a loan to the Indonesia government of Rp. 800 billion to conserve the historic temple and other beach locations around the island of Bali. As a result, over one third of the rock which can be seen is artificial rock created under the Japanese upgrade works.

At the certain time, visitors might be lucky seeing a performance of the Kecak Dance. What makes the performance unique (besides the dramatic cliff top setting) is there is no Gamelan orchestra typical of other forms of Balinese dance. The only music is provided by a large chorus of 100-150 men and boys who sit bare-chected in a circle chanting a “chak-chak-chak” rhythm.