Legian Street Hotel Guide

Jalan Legian is the main street that runs north- south all the way from Kuta to Seminyak ( although its called Jalan Seminyak when you get in that neighborhood ). All the hotels listed in this guide are fairly close to each other and are approximately 5-10 minutes walk from the beach, same distance to the shopping street at Kuta Square. Lower Jalan Legian has plenty of bars and restaurants and well as souvenir shops. The Bounty ship and Paddy’s are 2 well known bars that attract newcomers.Lingga Murthi Hotel (0361) 751878)Jalan Legian Banjar PengabetanLmhotel@hotmail.comLocated...

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Bali Shopping

Shopping in Bali at glanceYou can go shopping for fine art and handicrafts such as antique and semi-antique furniture, all kinds of paintings, delicately crafted gold and silver jewelry, wood and stone carvings, masks, woven and dyed fabrics, etc. in many shops in the Kuta/Legian area, in Sanur, in various handicraft villages and the Sukawati market on the way to Ubud, and in the town of Ubud.Bali is the place to practise your bargaining skills. Unless the product is price-tagged, bargaining is the norm. It will prove to be an exciting venture...

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Bali Arts and Crafts

Traditional Balinese CreativityThe Balinese are surrounded by art throughout their lives as art is omnipresent in Bali. They make art out of the most basic necessities in their daily lives. However, artistic knowledge is not commissioned only to a special intellectual class, but is open to everyone at all levels. Painting, sculpture, carving and music have traditionally been the province of men, while women channeled their creative energy into creating lavish offerings to the gods. In every festival, you can see spectacular pyramids of flowers,...

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Bali Night Life

what you can do in Bali at nightNight life in Bali starts late, which means around midnight. Many visitors wonder where crowds of expats suddenly come from around 1:00 in the morning – even when all of Kuta has been very quiet during the whole evening, the IN-places often become crowded after midnight.There's a simple explanation: during the early evenings many of Bali's night owls either still work, visit friends at home, or simply sleep. Most of them visit pubs, bars, or discos only in the early morning hours. Therefore, if you plan a night...

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Bali's Museum

MUSEUM BALIAddress : Mayor Wisnu Street,DenpasarOpening Hours : Sundays-Thursday: 08.00-15.00, Fridays 08.00-12.30, Saturdays and public holidays closedFacilities : Exhibitions and bookshopMUSEUM PURI LUKISANAddress : Jl. Raya Ubud, BaliOpening hours :09.00-17.00 daillyFacilities : Exhibitions and bookshopNEKA ART MUSEUMAddress : Jl. Raya Sanggingan,UbudOpening hours :09.00-17.00 dailyFacilities : Art Gallery,gift shopNYOMAN GUNARSA MUSEUM OF CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ARTAddress : Jl. Pertigaan Banda No, 1, Takmung, Banjarangkan, KlungkungOpening...

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Trance Of Dance

The balance was the core from living philosophy in Bali. In fact the concept of this life was also used in the Javanese community and another part the ethnic group in Indonesia. The values of equality towards nature, interpersonal humankind and the worship against something that was regarded as highest were culture of the local community that could not be separated in the everyday life.The community believed that to one another would mutually relate and affected each other. In art, the dance was one of the various styles of culture that was most...

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Egg Painting

The Balinese island was indeed rich in the culture and the tradition apart from his nature that really enchanted. It is not surprising afterwards Bali was known as one of he reas f the Cultural tour.From however many areas of the aim of the tour, more incomplete apparently if you came to the Balinese Island not make use of visited to the upgrading Series, the Rock Village, Sukawati - Gianyar.In this village you could witness the community around that was doing several good paintings the traditional and modern motive that was so beautiful. Attracted...

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Goa Gajah, The Elephant Cave - Part 2

In the center of it all emerges the enormous, monstrous face which ever since the early 1920 has intrigued visitors, and which still leaves us with many questions. It most probably is a witcha well known feature in Balinese thought-for the ear ornaments are a woman’s. The head defi- nitely recalls the witch Rangda’s mask from Balinese theater. It has changed places with the kala-heads, well known from ancient Javanese monuments, where they are usually...

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Goa Gajah The Elephant Cave -Part1

The name Elephant Cave” perhaps originated with early visitors, mistakenly interpreting the monster”™s head as an elephant, or from villagers with the same misunderstanding. There may also be a (much order) connection with gajah.A Balinese place name Lwa Gajah, “œElephant Water,” is in fact mentioned in the 1365 Nagarakertagama as the seat of high Buddhist official. Since it occurs immediately after Badahulu (nearby Bedulu)this Lwa Gajah, named for some reason unknown to us, may very well have later given its name to the cave.After his first...

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The Balinese Warung

Sidarta WijayaA warung is an Indonesian term for a small roadside stall that sells snacks, drinks and convenient household items. However, in Bali a warung is also the local coffee house, corner store and community meeting spot for neighbours to sit and exchange the latest news or gossip. Every village has at least a dozen warung’s that serve the daily needs of locals and anyone else who happens to pass by. Some warung’s are crude makeshift structures...

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Guwang The Traditional Art Market

If you came to the Balinese Island to go on holiday, more incomplete if not bringing the present as souvenir/the souvenir. Especially Balinese diligence. Many places that could be visited by you to get this diligence. Among them you could come to the traditional artistic markets like the Kumbasari art Market in Street Gajah Mada - Denpasar, Sukawati the traditional art market,Gianyar, Ubud the traditional art market-Gianyar art, Kuta the traditional art market- Badung, and Guwang the traditional art market -Gianyar Bali.Shopped in the art market...

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Bali Predominate Craft Export

The creativity of Balinese craft in creating various artistic craft to fulfill the demand of international market has already well known by the overseas importer. Kasubdin of foreign trade of Bali Trading department, Ni Wayan Kusumawathi said “various craft of Bali have a great demand in international market, especially in Uni Eropa, United States, Japan and some other Asian countries”She affirm that realization value of various craft of Bali on January to July 2007 period was 138.814.257,19 US dollars, it raised 14, 20 percents from the same period...

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Tourism is The Commander; Sound from Behind of Bali Shimmer

By IBM. Dharma PalgunaTourism is commander. That is what people said, not us. We listen what people said then we imitating. If we want to honest, Bali is leading to The Commander inauguration. And we proud of it, cause we have been desperately waiting a leader figure for along time. Without a leader in our life, we are like an orchestra without conductor. Our music life is no other that chaos it self. The tourism commander, we hope could lead us out of this multidimensional crisis. And for that purpose, we are all ready to sacrifice more for...

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Flaw within the Tourism

The development of the tourism industry in Bali is getting better after having crisis due to the first and the second Bali bomb blast. But the flaw within the tourism itself has occured and still occur before and after the bomb blast. It happens towards the tourists (domestic, foreign, and local tourists). They usually get unfair treatment.This is the flaw within the tourism:From the price view point the tourist, especially the foreigners are given a very high price. The art shops could inflate the price from 100% up to 400%. Wow! Maybe it will...

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2007 End of Year Wrap

The Wrap of 2007!Bali is going through an amazing culinary journey. Not that many years ago the food offerings in Bali were mostly devoid of taste and value, both locals and foreigners operating restaurants that they believed presented cuisines of the world. Only one thing was missing, and that was the professional knowledge that can only come by experience, having been trained at the highest level.The Bali of today boasts of many top-flight chefs. As many as can often be found in cities four times its size. Most, of course, work in the ever-increasing...

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