Monday, April 28, 2008

Besakih Temple Tour

Besakih Temple Tour is an exciting tour to visit the biggest Hindu temple in Bali located in east part of Bali Island. This tour will bring you to the experience to explore the beautiful temple set on the foot of Agung Mount, the biggest mountain in Bali. You will also see other tourist destinations to complete your experience about the cultures and scenery in particular east part of Bali. The professional tour guide and full air-conditioning car are both additional benefit to perform your journey into a memorable one.
What is Besakih Tour?
Besakih Tour is started from your hotel lobby and departs to the east part of Bali. You will be guided to Besakih Temple directly to see a better view of Hindu temple with Agung Mount as a back drop. After exploring the Besakih Temple, you will visit Bukit Jambul and you will see beautiful scenery of rice terrace and enjoy your lunch at local restaurant. From Bukit Jambul, your journey will be continued to visit Kerta Gosa, the heritage building of Klungkung Kingdom. From Kerta Gosa, you will be offered a free optional destination to visit Batik home industry, the local dress material or silversmith in Batubulan or Wood Carving at Mas Village. Your will be arrive at the hotel to terminate your tour. The tour will take approximately 7 to 8 hours.
Please to visit on Besakih Tour
It is huge Hindu temple set on the high land right on the foot of Agung Mount and it is located in Karangasem Regency, east part of Bali. It is a beautiful temple with several temples building spread out in the temple area. The cool atmosphere and beautiful scenery up to the ocean are the fantastic experience that you can see and feel in this temple. Besakih Temple is also called by the local people as a mother temple, it is because of the function of this temple as a worship place to pray the ancestor . There are plenty of temple building spread out the Besakih Area with different function . It is from the parking area until the foot of Agung Mount.
Bukit Jambul
It is a beautiful place located on the high land with rice terrace located in Karangasem Regency. It is a famous tourist destination in east part of Bali with a hill and rice terrace as the features of this place. From the top of land, we can see the beautiful panorama of the tropical trees up to the ocean or looking back the beautiful Agung Mount. It is a nice place to stop with the cool atmosphere surround it and there is a restaurant also available to serve for lunch on Besakih Tour.


Klungkung Empire with beautiful omission located right in the center of Amlapura town. This place keep thigh historical of the development of this town starting from the empire to the modern era. There is a museum is existing in side of Kerta Gosa and collecting all items are relating to the history of Klungkung.
WHAT TO BRING?
Camera, money, hat, sun glasses and sun screen
PRICE
Bali Star Island Tour offer very competitive price which you can deal with.

Tour Itinerary
08:30 - Pick up at the hotel
09.30 - Visit Gold and Silverwork
10.15 - Visit Wood Carving Artwork
11.45 - Visit Kerta Gosa
12.30 - Visit Bukit Jambul
12.45 - Lunch at local restaurant in Bukit Jambul
14.30 - Visit Besakih Temple
15.30 - Back to hotel
17.30 - Arrive at hotel

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Kintamani Volcano Tour

Kintamani Tour is an exciting tour to visit the most beautiful scenery with an active volcano and blue Lake of Batur from the top hill with the cool weather in Kintamani countryside and Bangli regency. Tour to Kintamani will bring you to the amazing experience to visit places of interest along the main road to Kintamani like Gua Gajah and Tampak Siring. Meanwhile the returning from Kintamani we can access three different ways to visit other tourist destinations if we wish to connect our tour to Besakih Temple or Ubud Village. Or if we wish back to hotel, we will pass the same way when we go to Kintamani.
How is the tour about?
Kintamani Tour will start from your hotel lobby where the tour guide will pick you up and drop to the places of interests during the way to Kintamani. You will be offered to visit the handicraft or silversmith if you wish to take some of it and it can be earned at Celuk and Batubulan Village. Or you can also see the attractive Balinese dance that we called Bbarong Keris Dance, the group of dancers play traditional dances and followed by the Balinese traditional gamelan. Afterward, we will visit Gua Gajah, the beautiful cave with shrine and high historical of Buddhist and Hindu. This cave is mostly called Gua Gajah or Goa Gajah or Elephant Cave. The next destination is Tampak Siring Water Temple, the temple will big water sources located in valley and surrounded by the hill. The last destination is Kintamani Village, the beautiful village with magnificent view of active volcano and Batur Lake. We can also enjoy the lunch at local restaurant with Lake and Batur view as a backdrop. Your tour will be very impressive with the cool weather around Kintamani . From here, your journey will direct to hotel or continue to other tours. During Kintamani Tour you will enjoy your time to visit places of interest and buy something at souvenir shops to bring home. Our tour guide will ensure your trips are enjoyable until arrive back to your hotel.
Places to Visit during Kintamani Tour
Batubulan and Celuk Village
Both of this village offer attractive and innovative the handicraft with multifarious of artwork. You can see many kind of handicraft from the small items until the big one. You can also see the beautiful gold and silversmith at Celuk Village. If you like to see the wood carving collection, Mas Village is the right place to visit where it is located just a step from Celuk Village.
Gua Gajah/Goa Gajah/Elephant Cave
Goa Gajah/Elephant Cave is an ancient omission in the form of a cave with the high value of art and history. Goa Gajah is one of tourist destinations in Bali that is visited by a lot of tourists every day. In this place, we will find other ancient omissions like ancient stone idol, douche, temple and others. It owns beautiful relief with a form of face turning around to the left side. We have to descend the doorstep to reach Goa Gajah because this place is located in the river valley.



Tampak Siring Water Temple
Tampak Siring or recognized also by the name of Tirta Empul is a temple with a big water source residing in the middle of it. The water is clear, clean and holy assumed by the local resident to cure some disease. In Tampak Siring, you will see a Palace of Indonesia State founded by first president. Its place is very beautiful and peaceful that is surrounded by hill. There are many water douche exist in this temple that are using by local people for bathing and purification purpose.

Kintamani Volcano and Batur Lake
Kintamani is a name of countryside located in the hill and the beautiful panorama surround it. We can see beautiful panorama from Kintamani to overview the active volcano of Batur Mount and wide Lake of Batur in a valley. It is situated in the plateau with cool weather surround it. When we stand up at Kintamani, we will be able to see the rural area which is close to the lake.
TOUR ITINERARY
  • 09:00 - Pick up at the hotel
  • 10.15 - Visit Gold and Silver work
  • 10.45 - Visit Wood Carving
  • 12.00 - Visit Kintamani with Batur Volcano and Lake
  • 12.15 - Enjoy lunch at local restaurant in Kintamani
  • 14.00 - Visit Tampak Siring/Tirta Empul Temple
  • 15.00 - Visit Goa Gajah/Elephant Cave
  • 15.30 - Back to hotel
  • 17.00 - Arrive at hotel
PRICE
All local travel agents in Bali sell this tour package and Bali Star Island Tour is one well establish tour operator to provide high quality services with reasonable prices. Your tour will be very enjoyable and full of memories with experience tour guide who outstanding serve friendly services. Please check it out the Kintamani Tour Package completely through this travel agency.
WHAT TO BRING
Camera, hat, sun screen, money, formal dress
TRAVEL TIPS
Bali is a save country with friendly people which is easy to go from one place to other place. When arrive at Kintamani, the only one thing we recommend do not hold any kind of offers from the local free sellers if you do not want to buy to avoid uncomfortable during your trip. Therefore we recommend you to follow the tour guide instruction where Bali Star Island Tour is concerning about it.