Dramatic Love Story of Balinese People

If Europe has a Romeo and Juliet story, Bali has Jayaprana and Layon Sari Story. Jayaprana story is the married couple story who are considered as ideal future in Kalianget Wanekeling Kingdom. But, because Layon Sari so beautiful, the king who ruled when it want to married Layon Sari and attempted to kill Jayaprana.
Jayaprana finally had to die by an evil stratagem of The King who sent him to the Bali northwest and fight with the pirates. On arrival in the Terima Gulf , Jayaparan was killed on the orders of the king by Patih Saunggaling . Even Jayaprana was died, Layon Sari still doesn’t want married with The King. Layon Sari chose to follow her husband's death
Heard a love story about Jayaprana and Layon Sari invited my attention to visited their funeral. Located in Terima Gulf Forest, Sumbre Klampok Gerokgak Village, I need times about 1 hour from Singaraja City.
When visited the Jayaprana Funeral, in addition to recalled the Layon Sari romance and loyalty story, it can inspired back my love story with my wife, family and dear ones.

 

In this place I also visited a temple. To reach the temple, from Jayaprana Funeral location, I need a long and steep ascent, but the surrounding scenery made all my efforts are not futile. The Temple contains glass box featuring Jayaprana and Layonsari sculptures. The calm atmosphere and beautiful scenery around the funeral. I can saw Menjangan Island and even some mountain in Java from this funeral.

Mekepung Schedule 2015

Makepung Schedule 2015

Makepung is the name of a major grand prix in Jembrana Regency, West Bali, which features racing buffalo races. Hundreds of pairs of buffaloes are teamed up together with their jockeys riding the traditional wooden ploughs that are slightly modified for the competition.  If you want to see this unique race, you can see the schedule on this blog.
Makepung Schedule 2015

1. Sunday, 12^th July 2015 Located in DlodBrawah Circuit
2. Sunday, 26^th July 2015 Located in Sanghyang Cerik Circuit, Tuwed Village
3. Sunday, 9^th August 2015 Located in Mertasari (BUPATI CUP )
4. Sunday, 23^th August 2015 Located in Pangkung Dalem Circuit
5. Sunday, 6^th September 2015 Located in Dlodbrawah Circuit
6. Sunday, 20^th September 2015 Located in Awen Circuit
7. Sunday, 4^th October 2015 Located in Mertasari Circuit
8. Sunday, 18^th October 2015 Located in Kaliakah Circuit
9. Sunday, 1^st November 2015 Located in Dlodbrawah Circuit
10. Sunday, 15^th November 2015 Located in Sanghyang Cerik Circuit, Tuwed Village (JEMBRANA CUP)

 

Let’s watch this unique race which just can you see in Jembrana Regency. Don’t let you miss this race full of culture

Taman Ayun Temple

Visited Taman Ayun Temple is one of the joys in my life. Located in Mengwi Village, Badung Regency it need times about 40 minutes from Ngurah Rai International Airport.
Taman Ayun in Balinese language, meaning Beautiful Park. I think it is the correct meaning, because when arrived at the parking area I was able to see the beauty of this park. Taman Ayun Temple has a beautiful view. The Charm comes from the pool surrounding temple complex of buildings, which is located on 4 hectares area.
From a distance I saw the pool water looks like a bracelet, so it seems temple building is above the water surface. The beautiful view is more completed with a trees and flowers growed around the temple building.
Taman Ayun temple complex consists of three parts, that are open spaces, the main building, and buildings are reserved for gods and goddesses. In the first part, are used for various religious activities and stage arts, i can enjoy the beautiful arrangement of “Meru”, that is a pagoda with terraced roof typical building temples in Bali. While in the second part, I met building named Bale Pelik decorated by a sculpture, relief, and Nawa Sanga God statue.

HYSTORICAL BATIK

 
Batik is a technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to whole cloth, or cloth made using this technique. Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines of the resist with a spouted tool called a canting , or by printing the resist with a copper stamp called a cap. The applied wax resists dyes and therefore allows the artisan to color selectively by soaking the cloth in one color, removing the wax with boiling water, and repeating if multiple colors are desired.
A tradition of making batik is found in various countries, including Nigeria, Singapore, India, Malaysia, Philippines and Sri Lanka; the batik of Indonesia, however, is the most well-known. Indonesian batik made in the island of Java has a long history of acculturation, with diverse patterns influenced by a variety of cultures, and is the most developed in terms of pattern, technique, and the quality of workmanship. On October 2009, UNESCO designated Indonesian batik as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

HISTORY
Wax resist dyeing of fabric is an ancient art form. It already existed in Egypt in the 4th century BC, where it was used to wrap mummies; linen was soaked in wax, and scratched using a stylus. In Asia, the technique was practiced in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), and in India and Japan during the Nara Period (645-794 AD). In Africa it was originally practiced by the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria, Soninke and Wolof in Senegal. These African version however, uses cassava starch or rice paste, or mud as a resist instead of beeswax.
The art of batik is most highly developed in the island of Java in Indonesia. In Java, all the materials for the process are readily available — cotton and beeswax and plants from which different vegetable dyes are made. Indonesian batik predates written records: G. P. Rouffaer argues that the technique might have been introduced during the 6th or 7th century from India or Sri Lanka. On the other hand, the Dutch archaeologist J.L.A. Brandes and the Indonesian archaeologist F.A. Sutjipto believe Indonesian batik is a native tradition, since regions such as Toraja, Flores, Halmahera, and Papua, which were not directly influenced by Hinduism, have an age-old tradition of batik making.Rouffaer reported that the gringsing pattern was already known by the 12th century in Kediri, East Java. He concluded that this delicate pattern could be created only by using the canting, an etching tool that holds a small reservoir of hot wax, and proposed that the canting was invented in Java around that time. The carving details of clothes worn by East Javanese Prajnaparamita statues from around the 13th century show intricate floral patterns within rounded margins, similar to today's traditional Javanese jlamprang or ceplok batik motif. The motif is thought to represent the lotus, a sacred flower in Hindu-Buddhist beliefs. This evidence suggests that intricate batik fabric patterns applied with the canting existed in 13th-century Java or even earlier.
In Europe, the technique was described for the first time in the History of Java, published in London in 1817 by Stamford Raffles, who had been a British governor for the island. In 1873 the Dutch merchant Van Rijckevorsel gave the pieces he collected during a trip to Indonesia to the ethnographic museum in Rotterdam. Today the Tropenmuseum houses the biggest collection of Indonesian batik in the Netherlands. The Dutch and Chinese colonists were active in developing batik, particularly coastal batik, in the late colonial era. They introduced new patterns as well as the use of the cap (copper block stamps) to mass-produce batiks. Displayed at the Exposition Universelle at Paris in 1900, the Indonesian batik impressed the public and artists.
In the 1920s, Javanese batik makers migrating to Malaya (now Malaysia) introduced the use of wax and copper blocks to its east coast.
In Subsaharan Africa, Javanese batik was introduced in the 19th century by Dutch and English traders. The local people there adapted the Javanese batik, making larger motifs with thicker lines and more colors. In the 1970s, batik was introduced to Australia, where aboriginal artists at Erna Bella have developed it as their own craft.
 

Find Out A Old Turtle in Turtle Island

Place of interest at Tanjung Benoa, Badung now become one of the favorite destinations of tourists in filling the holidays in Bali. In addition to providing water attractions, Tanjung Benoa also provide tour packages to visit Turtle Island by boat motors.There are many tour packages offered water in Tanjung Benoa, ranging from Fly Fish, Water Skiing, Parasailing, Banana Boat, Snorkeling and Scuba Diving. One of which is not less exciting to try is a tour package to visit Turtle Island in the Bay of Tanjung Benoa, Bali.
Motor boat to Turtle Island can be rented with varying prices. Minimum 2 persons for all the rent and a maximum of 8 people for one boat. They are easily found hung on the edge of the beach is provided by water sports operators in Tanjung Benoa. Before visited Turtle Island, visitors will be invited to the sea is about 100-200 meters from the beach to see the beauty of the seabed. One of the guides as well as a boat driver to prepare bread to feed the fish. From the top of this boat, fish with beautiful colors shapes bring himself to approach the boat above the water surface.
“The fish here prefer to eat capcay, rather than eat bread,” joked Ida Bagus Redana, Glass Bottom Boat driver by the name of Family Travel stomach.In the midst of the sea, known as the Marine Park, the boat going to the Turtle Island will always stop here first. With the float position, through clear glass in the bottom of the boat, the scenery looks so close to the coral reefs interspersed with a variety of fish species are active swimming.
“Marine plants and fish that are here continuity is always maintained by the local community,” said Redana.
In addition to fish and marine plants served through Glass Bottom Boat, Marine Park in the middle of this, various marine activities fro displays its many attractions. If you’re lucky, an international cruise ship capacity of 3,000 passengers often loose the anchor in the middle of the ocean, lowering the passengers to lifeboats.

After quite content to feed the fish in Marine Park, then travel into Turtle Island which is about 20 minutes away. The boat cruised with a maximum power of 40 HP outboard engine power. In the advanced position, tourists are expected to sit back satisfy both sides, in order to position the boat drove quite stable. Along the way, another beauty that tourists come in the form of various forms of activity are visible in the distance, such as loading and unloading of ships that rely on the Port Benoa, takeoff aircraft, as well as fishing activities in the base of Tanjung Benoa.
While waiting with curiosity to immediately get in Turtle Island, others seem dreamy views of Bali Mandara Toll road stretches above sea level Benoa Bay.
Arriving at Turtle Island, tourists greeted local guide with a smile. Prior to admission, admission will be charged in advance. Travelers will be subject to a ticket for Rp 20 thousand to Rp 10 thousand foreign and local tourists for. As for the child ren will be charged Rp 10 thousand for foreign and Rp 5 thousand for the for the local. Most of these ticket sales will be used as a turtle and animal care costs in place of preservation.
Kindly guide then lets go in and introduce more closely on the preparation turtles preserved by Turtle Conservation Group Sari Moon Cot. In this area there are at least three types of turtles that have been successful in tangkar, among Enduring Turtle, Green Turtle and Hawksbill, “We have the age of the oldest turtle, green turtle is 75 years old,” said one female guides.
In addition to turtles, there are other types of animals like Eagles, Bats, Birds Bangkok, iguanas and snakes. All these animals are tame be additional attractions besides seeing the turtle as the main destination. The place is very suitable as a family recreation, didactic and add insight for school children. Keberapadan turtles can be seen from hacking, shaped hatchlings, until an adult turtle.
When the school holidays, the place is always crowded by families and children – children. This turtle breeding place, other than through the camera can capture photos, visitors can also hold. The existence of this turtle conservationists place, enough to help some of the fishermen who are around Tanjung Benoa, because all those involved in turtle conservation groups could obtain employment.
“This breeding Land indication borrowed by forestry and marine services. In a land area of one hectare there are at least three turtle conservation groups, “said Ketut Roka, Turtle Conservation Group Field Coordinator Moon Cot Sari, who worked for 12 years.
Add Ketut Roka, sea turtles on Turtle Conservation Group Sari Moon Cot Turtle Island is managed independently by the local community. This group has a total membership of 10 people. At least this time as many as 37 turtles were already in taging, and 95 others have not been in taging tail. The release also often done to increase the number of turtles in the wild existence. All species are protected in this place under the supervision of Bali Conservation of Natural Resources (BKSDA) Bali, “Maintaining this turtle to be true – really inspiring, if not so dead all penyunya,” said Ketut Roka.
In Turtle Island, as one of the tourist destinations, other support facilities are already adequate toilets, souvenir stalls, food stalls, refreshments stall, as well as other facilities such as Fish SPA facilities that can be tried for all travelers. This tourist attraction is open daily from 8 o’clock until the afternoon. After being around visiting the turtle island, before continuing back to the dock water sport activities, riding the same boat.