AYUNG RIVER BALI

AYUNG RIVER BALI

Ayung River is the longest river on the Indonesian island of Bali. It runs 75km from the northern mountain ranges and discharges into the Badung Strait.
Ayung River one of the best whitewater river in Bali for rating activities
Ayung River is close by to Ubud village, is about 5 kilometer.
If you would like to discover a hidden waterfall than you can find it here. Scenery and wild life that you can get here such as rice field, jungle, Kingfisher and water fall. If you do Ayung rafting Bali than you will enjoy Bali rain forest and very well maintain rice field. You may also able to see wild life on Bali rain forest such as beautiful Blue Javan Kingfisher. Ayung whitewater River rafting also offers fresh white water.
The rapids class on River of Ayung is for beginner also very easy to access and suitable for those who never try rafting activities before and can be considered as family friendly whitewater river. For you who would like to do Bali rafting at River of Ayung, you don’t need to wait for good season, because it’s year-round season.

GOLF IN PECATU

NEW KUTA GOLF

New Kuta Golf is the newest golf course located in the southern part of Bali right on the Bukit Paninsula within The Pecatu Indah Resort. It is set on the limestone cliff overlooking to the stunning view of the Indian Ocean and Dream Land Beach. It is featured by the 18 holes green fees, friendly caddies, international restaurant, luxury lockers, comfortable golf cart etc.

New Kuta Golf is set on the 85 hectares land right on the limestone cliff with stunning view of the Indian Ocean in Bali. It is one of Bali's great 18 holes golf courses located 20 minutes drive from Bali's International Airport. This Bali golf course invites golfers to experience a championship layout in the relaxed golf destination of Bali. New Kuta Golf measures 7500 yards from the championship tees, also referred to as the Black Monkeys, and the layout is designed by Golfplan, a respected golf course design company in Santa Rosa, California

Perched mainly atop limestone cliffs overlooking Balangan Beach, the championship Bali Golf course at New Kuta GC offers long, broad vistas of the Indian Ocean and a pair of holes that play directly along the shore. The Bali golf course is the centerpiece of a resort development that will eventually boast hotels, villas, restaurants and shops. The Ritz Carlton and Four Seasons Jimbaran Bay are already nearby; both have arrangements for guests to play New Kuta, site of the 2009 Indonesian Open.

The par-72, 6,812-yard layout has a links feel with native grasses, vegetation and just a handful of trees bordering its seashore paspalum fairways, tees and roughs. The greens are planted with smooth-rolling ultradwarf bermudagrass, perfect for Bali's golf friendly climate.

Golfplan, which has built more than 160 golf courses in 65 countries, first became involved with the project in 1994. The course was well on its way to completion when Indonesian President Suharto was ousted from power in 1998. Construction of New Kuta Golf Course came to a halt during the next eight years of political and economic unrest. In 2006, the developers were able to resume construction.

The developers, Golf Links Resort headed by Director Aulia Putera, have big plans for New Kuta GC. Once the hotels have been built, plans are to add a second course on the cliff tops. This Bali Golf course's primary audience will be north Asians, mostly from Korea and Japan, and Australians with a sprinkling of Chinese, Singaporeans, Europeans and the occasional North Americans seeking an exotic golf destination.  Play New Kuta Golf Course on your next Bali golf holiday.

BALINESE COSTUME

 

At home and it work, Balinese people like to be free of excessive clothing; ordinarily the'dress of; both men and women consists simply,of a skirt called kamben, (the women wear an underskirt tapih) of Javanese batik or domestic hand-woven material, and a head-cloth. The women wear this skirt wrapped tight around the hips, reaching down to the feet and held at the waist by a bright-coloured sash (bulang) . Along scarf (kamben tjerik) in pale pink, yellow, or white cotton completes the costume. Young girls love gay batiks from Pekalongan, full of birds and flowers in red and blue on a white ground, or hand-woven skirts of yellow and green for feasts, but older women prefer conservative brown and indigo or black silk enlivened by a green, yellow, or peach sash. The scarf is generally thrown over one shoulder or wound around the head to keep the hair in place, but it also serves as a ,cushion for a heavy basket carried on the bead, or to wrap over the breasts when appearing in front of a superior or entering the temple, because, although the Balinese are accustomed to go nude above the waist, it is a rule of etiquette, for both men and women, that the breast must be covered for formal dress. This is purely a formula and does not imply that it is wrong to go with uncovered breasts; often the cloth is worn loosely around the waist, leaving the torso free; but even modernized Balinese, who generally wear a shirt or blouse, wrap the breast-cloth across their chest or around their middles when they wish to appear properly dressed.

BALINESE TEDUNG

For auspicious occasions and holy Hindu ceremonies, the Balinese decorate their temple compounds with colourful umbrellas. In the Balinese dialect these umbrellas are known as ‘tedung’, which literally means ‘to guard’. The umbrellas are used in ceremonial parades and positioned around the compounds in alignment to various shrines that are orientated towards the sacred mountain of Gunung Agung. The colour of the umbrella normally reflects the type of ceremony that is taking place. Pure shades of white and yellow symbolize dedication to the Hindu religion and the different manifestations of God.

TAMIANG BALI

Tamiang adalah sebagai simbol pelindung dan juga senjata dari Dewata Nawa Sanga sebagai lambang perputaran roda kehidupan, cakraning panggilingan untuk mengingatkan pada hukum alam (rta). Artinya, jika masyarakat tidak mampu menyesuaikan diri dengan alam, atau taat dengan hukum alam sudah pasti akan tergilas roda kehidupan, bahaya berupaya bencana alam dan kerusakan alam. 

Biasanya, tamiang dipasang di pojok rumah dan di pelinggih yang pada dasarnya, bekal yang paling utama dalam mengarungi kehidupan ini adalah ilmu pengetahuan dan bhakti (jnana). 

Sedangkan, senjata yang paling ampuh adalah ketenangan pikiran. Karena dengan ketenangan pikiran tidak akan dapat dikalahkan oleh senjata apapun. Ikang manah pinaka witing indria yang berarti pikiran itu sumber dari indria. “Ini artinya, senjata pikiranlah yang paling ampuh dan utama dalam menghadapi berbagai persoalan dalam kehidupan globalisasi kekinian yang serba teknologi canggih. Demikian disebutkan dalam kutipan artikel Metro Bali, Kuningan, Jaga Hati dan Pikiran untuk Taksu Bali.

Sementara "Sampian Tamiang" dalam Kuningan disebutkan bahwa berbagai simbol perang mewarnai perayaan Kuningan tersebut, simbol tamiang ini dimaknai sebagai pertahanan diri. Dalam menghadapi berbagai tantangan hidup, pertahanan diri yang ampuh adalah moral dan etika serta ilmu pengetahuan. 

Dengan memiliki pertahanan seperti itu umat diharapkan mampu menghadapi kegelapan, kebodohan dan musuh-musuh yang ada dalam diri. 

Dengan mampu memerangi musuh-musuh yang bersumber dari dalam diri, maupun tekanan eksternal yang ingin merusak nilai-nilai kesucian, umat diharapkan dapat mencapai jagadhita.

Demikianlah disebutkan tamiang sebagai simbol pelindung dan lambang dari perputaran roda kehidupan ini.