Jemeluk and Its Salt

The village of Jemeluk near Amed in Karangasem regency now begins to explore and develop their resources in order to compete the neighboring villages such as Amed that have already enjoyed the limelight of tourism for years.

Jemeluk not just offer a beautiful a clean beach free of hawkers and peddlers with stunning sunrise to behold but also a unique traditional salt making activity that have been the main occupation for many inhabitants of Jemeluk for generations. And traditional salt making is the trademark of Jemeluk that is used to give a unique characteristic to the Jemeluk beach.

The traditional salt making activity in Jemeluk is programmed to be a tourist attraction though the activity of salt making can only be seen during the dry season (from April to October), the best time to see this traditional salt making activity is around July and August.

The process of making a salt using traditional Jemeluk technique can be summed up as follow:
First, the seawater is taken from the sea then the seawater is poured on a specially prepared land to increase the salt concentration of the soil after that the soil of field with high salt concentration is leveled in order to allow the soil to dry evenly.

The drying process usually takes three days then after three days the salty soil is raked and filed into a bamboo cone then the salty soil inside the bamboo cone is pressed by walking on it.

After the salty soil become solid, the seawater is poured into the cone, the salty soil filter the sea water and the filtered sea water that is dripping from the cone is collected in a big palm tree trunk then the filtered sea water is transferred to wooden drying pans made of palm tree trunks. The filtered seawater is allowed to evaporate under hot tropic sun; the seawater evaporates leaving the salt crystals ready to be harvested.

This traditional salt making process can be seen in Hotel Uyah Amed that arranges a daily program of traditional salt making during the dry season.

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Visiting Padang Bai

Padang Bai is located at Manggis district, approximately 53 kilometers from the city of Denpasar or approximately 30 kilometers from Amlapura. From Kuta, can be reached with the drive takes about 3 hours. This region is the region that connects the port of sailing between the islands of Bali and Lombok island. It was here that the landing of the tourists who visited Bali by sea are transported by cruise ships.

Location Padang Bai is located on the coast road Klungkung, Karangasem majors turn to the right. In Padang Bai is now there were several inns and restaurants for tourists who enjoy a vacation there, and the tourists who will go or who had just come from Lombok. Here also is the traditional canoes and small motor boats are ready for hire to enjoy the water attractions. On the Parker area, the stores were lined with souvenir sellers are quite interesting wares.

For the purpose of crossing to Lombok is ready to ferry services which serve tourists or people who go to Lombok, four times a day crossing.

What’s interesting about this object is to place the protected bay of the black rock solid so that the life under water is safe. On the east coast of Padang Bai clean white sand and thick it fun for swimming or sunbathing. Fish are milling through the rock, interesting to be enjoyed by diving or snorkeling.

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