Monster Ogoh-ogoh

Bali is famous for many forms of art, including painting, sculpture, woodcarving, handcrafts, and performing arts. Balinese gamelan music is highly developed and varied. The dances portray stories from Hindu epics such as the Ramayana. Famous Balinese dances include pendet, legong, baris, topeng, barong, and kecak (the monkey dance).

National education programs, mass media and tourism continue to change Balinese culture. Immigration from other parts of Indonesia, especially Java, is changing the ethnic composition of Bali's population.

The Hindu new year, Nyepi, is celebrated in the spring by a day of silence. On this day everyone stays at home and tourists are encouraged to remain in their hotels. On the preceding day large, colorful sculptures of ogoh-ogoh monsters are paraded and finally burned in the evening to drive away evil spirits. Other festivals throughout the year are specified by the Balinese pawukon calendrical system.

Walk in BALI

• Your visit to Bali would not be completed without sighting city of Denpasar. Stops at one of the various air-conditioned Department stores, the traditional local market, the Bali Museum and the Art Center.
• Uluwatu, Sunset and Seafood Dinner Tour-6 HoursPura Luhur Uluwatu, the small sea temple of Uluwatu, is perched dramatically on the edge of a high cliff with world famous surf below and offers spectacular ocean views. Enjoy the spectacular sunset high atop the mystical cliffs of Jimbaran (Weather permit), and stop over the famous Jimbaran sea side dinner restaurant, serves traditional grilled and fresh seafood.
• Mystical Lake, Garden Palace, Monkey Forest and Temple -Sunset Tour-8 HoursStart at 10.30 am, this fascinating tour takes you to 4 very different locations. Firstly you will visit the temple at Taman Ayun (beautiful garden palace) at Mengwi. The next stop is the fruit market of Candi Kuning, and the mystical lake of Beratan (Bedugul). Try the water activities such as power boat or traditional boat ride. Monkey Forest at Alas Kedaton is the nest stop before finally reaching the Tanah Lot Temple, the most photographed temple in Bali with its magnificent sunset (when weather permits).
• Here's your chance to see some of the natural Bali! Our first stop is the Batukaru temple, an elegant temple in Tabanan Region, on the slope of Mt Batukaru, followed by Jati Luwih village with its spectacular rice view, and to the Bedugul Lake, with its local market of Candikuning, famous for its freshly picked fruit. Feel the aura of the mystical temple by the lake Beratan and join the local made canoe or get in the powerboat and travel around the lake. The tour finishes at the Royal garden of Mengwi.
• An opportunity to traverse the width of Bali. Pacung is the first stop, followed by Bedugul and the Candy Kuning fruit and flower markets, then on to the Ulun Danu water temple on the edge of Lake Beratan. Next we stop at Gitgit Waterfall before heading down to Singaraja and along Lovina Beach coastline, where a stop is made for lunch (not included). We stop at the Holy Hot Water Springs near Seririt before returning via Pupuan, which offers spectacular views over the expansive rice terraces.
• First we stop at Gianyar, where we visit a hand-weaving factory, and then we pass through Klungkung and up to the villages of Sidemen and Putung, for some captivating scenery of rice terraces, southern Bali and the nearby islands. Back at the coast we stop in Candi Dasa for lunch (not included) and then to the village of Tenganan, which is the home of the original inhabitants of Bali, before Hinduism.
• A visit to Tanah Lot is a must during your stay in Bali. This tour takes you to Mengwi garden palace, the monkey forest of Alas Kedaton and finish up at the overwhelming beauty of Tanah Lot temple set magnificently overlooking the Indian Ocean. Start at 3 pm if you wish to have sunset as part of your program.
• This tour encompasses the art and handicraft centers of Bali. We pass through Batubulan village enroute to Celuk where we visit an art shop, and then to Mas, the woodcarvers village. Next is Ubud, which has lured artists from all over the world and has dozens of galleries and shops, filled with paintings. We then proceed to a restaurant on the outskirts of Ubud (lunch/dinner is not included).
  
  White Water Rafting:
  Discover the hidden beauties of Bali in a day packed with actions and excitement. A highly skilled and experience team of professionals will take you on a challenging and yet safe trip on Bali’s gorgeous river. An international safety standard and equipments are provided and buffet lunch on the river bank at the end of the trip.
  Day Cruise:
  The neighboring island of Lembongan is blessed with its tranquil white sandy beaches and abundance of coral marine life. Sail aboard a luxury catamaran on one and a half hour trip to this awaiting beauty. Enjoy a full day of the beach activities, snorkeling, glass bottom boat rides, island tour or just laze on the beach. Lunch is provided at a beachside restaurant.
  
  

BALI DANCE

Colorful court dance from strong dance of religious element. Mask play of which theme is history of epic and dynasty. The dance in Bali is various. Legong Dance that is deprived of a colorful angel. fantasticKecak Dance that sounds at dark night and is overwhelmed to extending powerful cheer. Barong Dance that expresses fight without end of good and evil. It might be good because a regular performance is done in various points around Ubd every evening if going out after the schedule like a day of the week and time, etc. is checked in beforehand.

Diving

Did you know that Bali lies at the center of the world's richest marine biogeographical region! This Indo – Pacific region runs from the Red Sea to the West Coast of South America. Smack in the center of this vast area is Indonesia where the Pacific meets the Indian Ocean . Indonesia , with over 18,000 islands and an estimated 85,000 square kilometers of living coral reef. That's more than 14 percent of the world's coral reefs and the richest 14 percent at that.
Biologists studying species distribution have placed the very epicenter of this marine richness in an area called the “magic triangle”. Forming the corners of this biological marvel are the tip of the Southern Philippines to the north, Bali to the east and Western New Guinea. This region alone encompasses the richest diversity of marine fauna on the planet. Over eighty genera of coral and perhaps twenty five hundred species of fish! ( and still counting) compare that to say the Caribbean with only twenty genera of coral and eight hundred types of fish!
So why come and dive in Bali ! Easy, you want to experience the richest and best marine environment on the planet.

If you have your own agenda, or want to have a “resting” day while diving, then these multiple day-dive packages are a great way to both dive and see more of Bali. With these discounted Day Trip packages, you the customer pick and choose your favorite dive sites (PRO DIVE Bali Divemaster/Instructors will recommend sites to you, based on the logistics, the environment and the best time to dive on that day). PRO DIVE Bali can help you determine if a Diving Safari would be more suitable.

Nusa Dua

Located minutes away from the Ngurah Rai International Airport on the sun-drenched shores of beautiful Nusa Dua,

Crystal clear water and stretches of white sandy beach of Nusa Dua makes Nusa Dua a perfect spot for luxurious resorts to which your exhausted bodies, after a Barong performance at Batubulan and a long climb of the steps of the Mother Temple Besakih, will want to rest. Some of the most sumptuous and luxurious hotels in the world find their home in Nusa Dua Bali. You can relax in the Thalasso spa of the Grand Mirage Resort after a day of surfing or diving. Or you can tee off into the sunset, while watching the gentle waves come from the blue sea and caress the banks surrounding the luscious greens. Tranquil swimming pools under the coconut trees seem to be one with the distant blue sea. Art galleries and numerous shops surround them.

Where is Bali?

Located 8 degrees south of the equator in the midst of the 8,000 islands of the Indonesian archipelago, Bali measures approximately 140 km by 80 km and has an area of 5,620 square kilometers. Immediately east of Java, Bali is the first of the Sunda Islands. Its mountain range consists mostly of dormant and active volcanoes, with the highest, the active volcano Mount Gunung Agung, reaching 3,142 meters. Stretched to the south and north of these volcanoes, Bali's fertile agricultural lands produce abundant crops of rice.
The thinly populated West is the only non-cultivated area and includes Bali's National Park, a deeply forested area with many varieties of plants and birds. The eastern and northeastern slopes of Gunung Agung are arid, as is the extreme south of the island. The climate of most of the island is hot and humid, with an average temperature of 28 Celcius, but the higher altitudes can be quite cool. The rainy season lasts from October to March, and the humidity fluctuates between 75% and 80% depending on the season. Winds tend to blow from the West during the rainy season and from the East during the 'dry' season.

Bali is so picturesque that you could be fooled into thinking it was a painted backdrop: rice paddies trip down hillsides like giant steps, volcanoes soar through the clouds, the forests are lush and tropical, and the beaches are lapped by the warm waters of the Indian Ocean.
Recent tragic events have scared away many of those who simply saw Bali as a place for cheap beer. While the Bintang is still tasty and plentiful, Bali's temples, ceremonies, beaches, mountains and passion for life are undiminished and more easily enjoyed than ever.

Laghawa Beach

Located in Sanur Beach, Laghawa Beach Inn has easy access to any tourism attraction worth visited in Bali. Sanur Beach is within walking distance, and it offers many activities of water sport, wide range selection shops for your shopping expedition and grandeur restaurants for fine dining, all in one in Sanur.
Settled on 2 hectares of land, Laghawa Beach Inn has a beautiful garden landscaped with tropical plants and trees, right on the Sanur Beach with its white sandy beach and facing Indonesia Ocean to watch the glorious sun ascending to the skyslowly. Only fifteen minutes drive to Bali's capital city Denpasar and only twenty five minutes drive to the Bali's International Airport I Gusti Ngurah Rai in Tuban.

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