11 Reasons to Choose Travel Agency on Your Vacation Trips to Bali

11 Reasons to Choose Travel Agency on Your Vacation Trips to Bali

Today, the development of tourism is fast growing in line with the global development because of global influences. The globalizations create several of changes that are very difficult to predict in many aspect which include the community world. One effect of globalization is very obvious that we feel is the impact of tourism sector in the world generally including Bali. The globalization which makes progress in various of fields make the desire to compete is becoming increasingly tight and real. The Bali’s tourism in particularly, it can be seen the various form of competitions in terms of properties includes hotels and villas meanwhile in terms of services includes the readiness to provide the services which then able to attract the tourists to choose and use their services.

What to Know?

So many interesting choices related to the development of Bali’s tourism in particular with the terms of services and properties with various of services and competitive prices are easily be found. In a wonderful holiday in Bali Island, the foreign and domestic tourists are always mess around with different shapes and a wide selection of properties and services offered with very competitive prices. Some choose the property and services directly, there are also tourists choose the Freeland Services and the others choose the travel agencies to arrange all their travel arrangements.

On this occasion, we share 11 reason why what are the advantage in choosing the travel agency to arrange your holiday trips to Bali as well as all activities related to your vacation day in this paradise island :

1. Travel Agent will provide you comprehensive range of travel services in specific term of your desire rather than you make online reservation to the property of Freeland Tour. Example: when you make travel packages, it is included free return airport transfer, there is professional tour guide will explain you about Bali correctly, spa, adventures and other activities that what the client needs.
2. The travel agency will offer you the cheaper price quotation than when you make direct booking online to the properties.
3. Travel agent will provide you clear and precise information according with your desire through email or other tools communications. The travel agent will do the maximum effort to fulfill all your needs those are very difficult you get when you do property online reservation or make the booking through Freeland Tour Company.
4. You can do one stop shopping at travel agency where the travel agent relatively has the ability to arrange your holiday trips when you make the booking more than one activity as well as destinations. It will make your holidays more efficient, easy, relax and comfortable.
5. Travel agency has the ability to give the clear and precise information related to arrange the timing or trip schedule that you need as well as the other information that you desire.
6. Travel agency provides a range of services and facilities that will add the value for your holidays in Bali. The Facilities and Services are provided by each travel agent varies, so you have to choose the reliable one.
7. In addition to give the best prices, most of the activities booked through travel agency has been covered by the insurances that will secure you and make comfortable when doing the activities.
8. Travel agency provide the comprehensive and reliable services.
9. Travel agency provides information more completely rather than when you book online reservation.
10. When you book through travel agent, you will avoid from the trap prices, facilities or services that are not measurable and not meet your expectation.
11. Your holiday trips will more comfortable using travel agent services so that they can be contacted when the emergency.

HAPPY HOLIDAY

Sails Sensations Daylight Cruise

Sails Sensations Daylight Cruise
'A Cruise of Elegance'

Daylight Cruise of Sail Sensations is one of the exciting sailing experiences perfectly combined by exploring Lembongan Island and attractive cruise activities. The cruise is much comfortable by using 27 meters long vessel of sail assisted motorized catamaran to cross Bali Strait and go to the most beautiful island with white sandy beach along the coastal area. Sail Sensations is one of the established cruise companies in Bali serve you with exciting cruise experience to explore the blue ocean and stop over at Lembongan Island. You will enjoy the fun ship cruise with sailing catamaran and friendly services from professional crew that complete your experiences in Bali.

Cruise to Lembongan Island

Sail Sensation will bring you the fantastic cruise experience to go to the beautiful island of Lembongan which is located in east of Bali. The ship will depart from Benoa Harbor at 09.00 am and return about 17.30 pm. The Daylight Cruise is using SV Sail Sensations Vessel that is rated by HSC under international (Maritime) Code of Safety. The boat can accommodate up to 110 people with 27 meter long and 12 meters wide.
Benoa Harbor

• Departure : 09.00 am
• Return: 17.30 pm

What to Bring?

• Swimming costume
• Change Clothe
• Short/long pant
• T-shirt
• Sunscreen
• Sun glasses
• Hat
• Camera
• Sandal
• Money for optional activities and souvenir

PRICE: US$ 112 net/person ONLY
Children (4 - 14 Years): US$ 56 net/child
Rate Inclusion:

• 21% Government tax and service
• Round trip hotel transfer valid for the hotel area of Tanjung Benoa, Nusa Dua, Jimbaran, Kuta, Seminyak and Sanur only)
• Sail away with a light breakfast
• Return with afternoon snacks
• Tea/coffee throughout the day
• Barbeque Buffet Lunch at the Beach Club “The Anchorage”
• Village Tours (to visit underground house and seaweed farming)
• Sea kayaking
• Snorkeling equipment
• Glass Bottom Boat
• Banana Boat ride
• Full use of anchorage facilities with swimming pool and waterslide
• Three beverage coupons throughout the day consisted of one bottle of soft drink or mineral water, one glass of beer and one glass of house wine

PICK UP SERVICES

Free round trip hotel transfer will be provided for the following hotel location and outside of below location will be applied additional charge

Hotel Location	Pick up time
Sanur Area Kuta, Tuban and Legian Area Seminyak and Kerobokan Area Jimbaran Area Nusa Dua Area Tanjung Benoa Area	08.00 - 08.15 am 07.30 - 07.45 am 07.15 - 07.30 am 07.30 - 07.45 am 07.30 - 07.45 am 07.30 - 07.45 am

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• The additional charge of 3% will be charged if the payment is made by credit card on spot for bank administration fee
• Payment can be also made via PayPal
• Free round trip hotel transfer is valid for hotel area in Tanjung Benoa, Nusa Dua, Jimbaran, Kuta, Legian, Seminyak and Sanur only. Outside of these hotel area will be charged additional fee
• The above rates are valid until 31 March 2016
• All rate quoted on the page are subject to change without notice and strictly valid when the booking is made via Bali Star Island only
• All booking confirmations are subject to availability basis.

Cancellation and No Show Policy

Cancellation fee will be charged if the cancellation is made within:

• If the booking cancellation is made within 3 days before the service date, 50% of the total tour reserved will be charged as a cancellation fee.
• If the booking is made within 1 day before the service date up to no show, a full (100%) charge will be applied as a cancellation fee
• This cancellation policy is valid for individual booking and not valid for group booking. The cancellation policy for group booking will be advised on the confirmation made

The Fascinating Barong Dance in Bali

The Barong is a mythological being in Bali that takes the form of a four-legged wild animal. The Barong Dance has always been popular in Bali. It is danced by two men, one man dancing the head and forelegs and other playing the hind legs and tail. The wel-known barong in Bali are the Barong Keket, the Barong Kalekek and Barong Landung.
The story goes that Rangda, the mother of Erlangga, the King of Bali in the tenth century, was condemned by Erlangga’s father because she practiced black magic. After she became a widow, she summoned all the evil spirits in the jungle, the leaks and the demons, to come after Erlangga. A fight occurred, but she and her black magic troops were too strong that Erlangga had to ask for the help of Barong. Barong came with Erlangga’s soldiers, and fight ensued. Rangda casted a spell that made Erlangga soldiers all wanted to kill themselves, pointing their poisoned keris into their own stomachs and chests. Barong casted a spell that turned their body resistant to the sharp keris. At the end, Barong won, and Rangda ran away.
Somebody can die or get seriously injured in a Barong dance. It is said that if Rangda’s spell is too strong, a weak soldier may not be able to resist it, even with the help of Barong. He may end up hurting himself with his own keris.
The masks of Barong and Rangda are considered sacred items, and before they are brought out, a priest must be present to offer blessings by sprinkling them with holy water taken from Mount Agung, and offerrings must be presented.
 

Meet the Salak, the Ubiquitous Indonesian Fruit You’ve Never Heard Of

It is a very short-stemmed palm, with leaves up to 6 metres (20 ft) long; each leaf has a 2-metre long petiole with spines up to 15 centimetres (5.9 in) long, and numerous leaflets. The fruits grow in clusters at the base of the palm, and are also known as snake fruit due to the reddish-brown scaly skin. They are about the size and shape of a ripe fig, with a distinct tip. The pulp is edible. The fruit can be peeled by pinching the tip, which should cause the skin to slough off so it can be pulled away.
Salak Bali is commonly sold all over the island of Bali, and is a popular fruit with both locals and tourists. The fruit is roughly the size of a large fig, and has a crunchy and moist consistency. The fruit has a starchy 'mouth feel', and a flavour reminiscent of dilute pineapple and lemon juice.
The most expensive cultivar of the Bali salak is the gula pasir (literally "sand sugar" or "grain sugar", referring to its fine-grainedness), which is smaller than the normal salak and is the sweetest of all salak.

Salak gula pasir or also known as Sugar salak which known for its juicy sweetness sometimes fermented into Salak wine which has an alcohol content of 13.5 percent, similar to traditional wine made from grapes.

At a morning market in Bali, the usual gaudy suspects – papayas, mangos, dragon fruit and heaps of rancid-smelling durians - are on display. For Western visitors seeking culinary novelty, however, the most enticing fruit likely will not be the biggest or the brightest, but a humble, shiny brown offering called the salak. For the uninitiated, this fleshy, spongey morsel offers a perfumed cocktail of bright flavors, with hints of pineapple, citrus, honey and possibly even soap.

In Indonesia, salaks are as common as apples or oranges in the U.S. Also called snakefruit, this strawberry-sized, fig-shaped fruit comes encased in vivid, nutty-brown scales, not unlike that of a cobra or python. Heaps of salaks turn up daily at countless local markets, while touristy hotels offer them up in breakfast buffet lines as examples of typical island fare. The odd but ubiquitous morsels can be boiled with sugar into a sweet spread, pickled, vacuum dried and fried into chips or paired with other fruits and nuts, but locals prefer them best raw and straight off the tree.

 

Salaks grow in bundles on palm-like plants with vicious spiked leaves and stems, and Indonesians often surround their yards with the primordial bushes, which double as purveyors of tasty treats and deterrents to would-be trespassers. On Java, traditional dancers whip themselves into a trance in the “Kuda Lumping” dance, then stomp upon or lick salak leaves to show their immunity to pain.

Around 30 types of snakefruits grow throughout their native Indonesia, but the islands of Bali and Java vie for the best salak around. Naturally, locals tend to swear by their own island fruit’s superiority, but for foreigners all bets are off, and preference is simply a matter of taste. The Javanese variety, or salak pondoh,  is the more obnoxiously aromatic of the two varieties. This intense fruit walks a fine line of ripeness that is so volatile that it will often become overripe and sweaty even before it reaches maturation.

 

Wonders of the World in East Nusa Tenggara

“I’m proud to live in Indonesia!”  Indonesia has some of the natural wonders that can not be found in other countries. Some of them actually belong to the wonders of the world. Well, this time I would like to invite you to look to the east of Indonesia, precisely to East Nusa Tenggara (NTT). Let's look at some of the wonders of the world in eastern Indonesia.

 1. Komodo Island

Komodo National Park is located in the center of the Indonesian archipelago, between the islands of Sumbawa and Flores. Established in 1980, initially the main purpose of the Park was to conserve the unique Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) and its habitat. However, over the years, the goals for the Park have expanded to protecting its entire biodiversity, both terrestrial and marine. In 1986, the Park was declared a World Heritage Site and a Man and Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO, both indications of the Park's biological importance.

Komodo National Park includes three major islands: Komodo, Rinca and Padar, as well as numerous smaller islands creating a total surface area (marine and land) of 1817km (proposed extensions would bring the total surface area up to 2,321km²). As well as being home to the Komodo dragon, the Park provides refuge for many other  notable terrestrial species such as the orange-footed scrub fowl, an endemic rat, and the Timor deer. Moreover, the Park includes one of the richest marine environments including coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, seamounts, and semi-enclosed bays. These habitats harbor more than 1,000 species of fish, some 260 species of reef-building coral, and 70 species of sponges. Dugong, sharks, manta rays, at least 14 species of whales, dolphins, and sea turtles also make Komodo National Park their home.
 

 2. Pink Beach, Komodo Island, NTT

A clear blue sky above, with fluffy white clouds drifting lazily across. Rolling green hills, covered luxuriantly in thick vegetation, interspersed with high, rocky cliffs. Calm, clear waters, tinted by the colorful corals beneath its surface, and alive with the movement of a hundred species of marine life. Last, but not least: a stretch of soft sand, but not white, not black, but PINK!

Pink Beach, or Pantai Merah, as it is aptly named, is one of seven pink beaches on the planet, and is just one of the many amazing features of Komodo Island that make it truly a Natural Wonder of Nature. This exceptional beach gets its striking color from microscopic animals called Foraminifera, which produce a red pigment on the coral reefs.  For this reason, it is called Red Beach in the local tongue. When the tiny fragments of red coral combine with the white sands, this produces the soft pink color that is visible along the shoreline. Aside from Pink Beach itself, a few small segments along Komodo’s eastern bay also have a pinkish tint.

3. Kelimutu Lake

On the uniquely beautiful island of Flores is the Kelimutu National Park, where the famous Mount Kelimutu volcano resides with its striking tri-colored lakes resting in its caldera.
These stunning colored lakes are the most famous attraction in Flores and an absolute must visit. They are without a doubt one of the most amazing natural phenomenons in Flores, if not the world.Going from west to east, the first of these lakes is called Tiwu Ata Mbupu (Lake of the Ancestors’ Souls, Lake of Old People). This first and most westerly lake is located 1.5 km west of the other two lakes. The second lake is named Tiwu Nuwa Muri Koo Fai (Lake of Young People’s Souls, Lake of Young Men and Maidens)and the third lake is called Tiwu Ata Polo (Lake of Evil Spirits, Bewitched or Enchanted Lake). The second and third lake are separated by a steep, narrow stone wall of crater measuring 50 to 150 meters. The three lakes vary in color from each other and each one changes colors irregularly, almost whimsically, lending the whole area a wonderfully surreal atmosphere that have led to many locals myths and speculations about the origin of Kelimutu.
 

4. Gua Batu Cermin, NTT

Batu Cermin, or Mirror Rock, is actually a tunnel or cave in a dark stone hills of Labuan Bajo, West Manggarai, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara.  Sunshine comes in through a hole in the tunnel and then bounces on the stone walls that again reflect small lights to other areas inside the cave like a mirror. That’s why this site is called mirror rock.
 
The cave is located east of Labuan Bajo harbor some four kilometers from the town’s center.  The cave has forests surrounding it where you can find long-tailed monkeys and wild boar.  Travel agencies sell tour packages to Batu Cermin as part of a city tour program from Labuan Bajo.

 5. Nihiwatu Beach

 "This has been voted one of the best left-hand breaks on the planet. But watch out for the reef if you get dumped -- try and shallow fall."The couple camped on the beach, an idyllic 2.5-kilometer-long stretch of sand.The beach is still difficult to access for anyone other than local villagers, and thus serves as something of a private beach for guests.It's hard to imagine this same sand was the scene, barely six months before the Graves' arrival, of a massive battle between 2,000 local tribesmen.Indeed, Sumba could be easily labeled an island that time almost forgot.That clash was an illustration of the fiercely traditional, territorial and tribal nature of Sumbanese culture -- reinforced by the swords the village men strap to their sides to this day.It's also, by Western standards, incredibly poor with little to no utilities access and infrastructure for many, if not most, villages.This lack of standard resources posed a challenge for Graves and his plans.