LOMBOK ISLAND TOUR

Situated on the side of hill in the center of Senggigi, the Bukit Senggigi offers simple and clean cottage style accommodation and friendly service in a relaxed setting. Long a favorite choice for budget conscious guests, the rooms at the top provide beautiful views of Senggigi Beach and Lombok Strait but the climb is probably not something older guests will enjoy.

Friendly service with clean, comfortable cottage style rooms that are terraced on the side of a hill of Bukit Senggigi puts you in the center of the Senggigi beach at affordable rates which offers good value for money.

All rooms in the Bukit Senggigi Seaview Cottages have individually controlled air conditioning, a private balcony, bathroom with tub and shower, minibar with refrigerator and satellite television

Far from driving south on Lombok you will eventually reach the small village of Kuta, about 54 km south of Mataram. This is the only area on the south coast, which has some tourism of any importance, but should not be compared to Kuta on Bali. This place is much calmer with only a fraction of the tourists and facilities, but there are plans to continue to develop the south coast, with some large luxury hotels. Kuta is great as a base for exploring the southern part of Lombok, here you find traditional Sasak villages (like Sade), remote and beautiful beaches, mountains and cliffs. The beaches are close to Kuta Putri Nyala, Seger and Tanjung Aan. This place has no nightlife, unless you arrange some. Kuta has a certain reputation among surfers as there are good surfing conditions on the reef and further west of Kuta.


Traditionally, a village of fishermen and fishing Nyala annual festival is held here in February or March. The festival attracts hundreds of people Sasak to the beach and began the 19th day of the tenth month of the Sasak calendar. The Nyala wormlike fish surface and then the festivities begin with great songs and fun activities. The first fish will normally be cached at nightfall, and eaten raw or roasted, it is considered an aphrodisiac, a good catch is also a sign of a good harvest of rice. The facilities are largely by the simple standard, maybe too simple for some, but two-three hotels are quite acceptable. Not far from Kuta, it is a new hotel built by Novotel Sasak in the traditional style of the exterior and luxurious interior. The location is beautiful in a remote, peaceful bay. This is the first large, high standard hotel built in the south of Lombok, and is probably a beginning of something that (unfortunately) in a few years, become an important tourist on Lombok. A new international airport is also planned not far from here, but is on hold because of the financial crisis. The roads here are low, especially in the rainy season. To be flexible is a good idea to rent a car to get around the region, but most major hotels also provide their own transportation to the most popular beaches.

One day before the Hindu new year, the Hindu people have Tawur Lombok Kesanga meaning ritual purification Bhuana Agung (macrocosmos) and Bhuana Alita (microcosmos), as well as the negative energy from naturalize Bhutani Kala. Tawur Kesanga The ritual is usually held in West Lombok and Mataram city during Tileming Sasih Kesanga. In Tawur Kesanga ritual usually begins Ogoh ogoh parade. The statue is Ogoh ogoh visualize Bhutani Kala. This statue is to provide more attention to people throughout the Tawur Kesanga ritual. During the Ogoh parade ogoh spun around the statue is facing in the right direction. after the statue is cremated to ensure that the evil spirit does not disturb the people again.

As you know, Lombok island has two main religions inhabited islands, the island culture by coloring is one of the unique one in Indonesia. And because of the island has two main landscapes, especially in the northern part of the mountainous area ranged from Rinjani Volcano as westest top right of the coast to the east of the island of Lombok, the flat land of the gorgeous beaches of the bay level of the western part, but on the whole island of Nusa Penida that way of life, language, history of their ancestor with a built-in color is growing culture in the southern part of the island of Lombok.

The Lombok Strait is the transition between the biogeographical distribution of fauna Indomalayan ecozone and the distinctly different fauna Australasia that is known as the Wallace Line for Alfred Russel Wallace, who for the first time the distinction between these two major biomes.

Topography of the island is dominated by the centrally located stratovolcano Mount Rinjani, which rises to 3,726 meters (12,224 feet), making it the third highest in Indonesia. In recent volcanic Rinjani was in May-June 2009, which was oozing a small outbreak of "Gunung Baru (New Mountain). Volcano and its crater lake "Segara Anak '(child of the sea), are protected by the National Park established in 1997. In the southern part of the island is a fertile plain where corn, rice, coffee, tobacco, and cotton are grown.

This island is 85% of the population, whose origins sasak thought to migrate from Java in the first millennium BC. Other inhabitants include the 10-15% Balinese, with a small remainder of Chinese, Arabic, Javanese and Sumbawanese. As Sasak population usually practice Islam, the landscape is punctuated by minarets and mosques. Islamic traditions and the impact of holidays on the island of daily activities.