The Ubud Village Resort

Located on the verdant hillsides of Ubud, Ubud Village Resort & Spa is a perfect Balinese hideaway for romantic couples, honeymooners and families alike. Overlooking an expanse of gorgeous terraced rice paddies, Ubud Village Resort and Spa has a relaxing atmosphere throughout which is further enhanced by excellent service and guest amenities. Surrounded by picturesque rice paddy terraces and set within luxuriant landscaped tropical gardens - with coconut palms, manicured lawns, lotus ponds and our own rice paddies - Ubud Village Resort & Spa is a retreat style boutique resort designed for relaxation, invigoration and peaceful contemplation. Various activities showcase Bali's artistic heritage with interactive classes of dance, music, painting, cooking, fruit sculpting and wood carving. While our adventure programme of trekking, cycling and rafting caters to those with more active tastes. Weddings are one of the specialties that Ubud Village Resort & Spa offers. The romantic atmosphere and picturesque location offered by the resort are conducive to a dream wedding and will ensure complete enjoyment of your special time.Know more visit here....

Singaraja Bali

he former capital of Bali, Singaraja is located in north Bali, in the Lovina area, away from the more popular tourist areas and a scenic three hours drive from the airport. Singaraja has a black sand beach and is the main town for the Lovina area, famous for its dolphins. Close by are the Yeh Panas (hot springs) and the Air Sanih (a natural freshwater pool).

The Old Dutch capital of Bali during the colonial era, Singaraja is a quiet town with some quaint Old Dutch warehouses on the waterfront. It's easily reached from the south via Bedugul or Kintamani or from Candidasa in the east. There is some accommodation here but we would be better to stay at the nearby Lovina Beach only a few kilometers to the west. Lovina has had a recent spruce up and the gravel beach is now pristine clean. The town has plenty of accommodation from basic to good quality and some adequate restaurants.

It was a centre and being the administrative centre of the islands during the years of Dutch colonialism up to 1953, (now the capital is in Denpasar, in the south of Bali). We will remains during Dutch period, there being influence of Chinese and Muslims. In the time of the Dutch occupation, Singaraja was Bali's main port. But now the traffic has moved south, leaving the area in peace. Clean, quiet and culturally distinctive, Singaraja retains a colonial feel.

History of Bali

Bali was inhabited by Austronesia peoples by about 2,000, who migrated originally from Taiwan through Maritime Southeast Asia. Culturally and linguistically, the Balinese are thus closely related to the peoples of the Indonesian archipelago, the Philippines, and Oceania. Stone tools dating from this time have been found near the village of Cekik in the island's west.

Balinese culture was strongly influenced by Indian, and particularly Sanskrit culture, in a process beginning around the 1st century AD. The name Balidwipa has been discovered from various inscriptions, including the Blanjong charter issued by Sri Kesari Warmadewa in 913 AD and mentioning Walidwipa. It was during this time that the complex irrigation system subak was developed to grow rice. Some religious and cultural traditions still in existence today can be traced back to this period. The Hindu Majapahit Empire (1293–1520 AD) on eastern Java founded a Balinese colony in 1343. When the empire declined, there was an exodus of intellectuals, artists, priests and musicians from Java to Bali in the 15th century.

The first European contact with Bali is thought to have been made by Dutch explorer Cornelis de Houtman who arrived in 1597, though a Portuguese ship had foundered off the Bukit Peninsula as early as 1585. Dutch colonial control was expanded across the Indonesian archipelago in the nineteenth century (see Dutch East Indies). Their political and economic control over Bali began in the 1840s on the island's north coast by playing various distrustful Balinese realms against each other. In the late 1890s, struggles between Balinese kingdoms in the island's south were exploited by the Dutch to increase their control. The Dutch mounted large naval and ground assaults at the Sanur region in 1906 and were met by the thousands of members of the royal family and their followers who marched to certain death against superior Dutch force in a suicidal puputan defensive assault rather than face the humiliation of surrender. Despite Dutch demands for surrender, an estimated 4,000 Balinese marched to their death against the invaders. In 1908, a similar massacre occurred in the face of a Dutch assault in Klungkung . Afterwards the Dutch governors were able to exercise little influence over the island, and local control over religion and culture generally remained intact.

Dutch rule over Bali had come later and was never as well established as in other parts of Indonesia such as Java and Maluku. Imperial Japan occupied Bali during World War II during which time a Balinese military officer, Gusti Ngurah Rai, formed a Balinese 'freedom army'. Following Japan's Pacific surrender in August 1945, the Dutch promptly returned to Indonesia, including Bali, immediately to reinstate their pre-war colonial administration. This was resisted by the Balinese rebels now using Japanese weapons. On 20 November 1946, the Battle of Marga was fought in Tabanan in central Bali. Colonel I Gusti Ngurah Rai, 29 years old, finally rallied his forces in east Bali at Marga Rana, where they made a suicide attack on the heavily armed Dutch. The Balinese battalion was entirely wiped out, breaking the last thread of Balinese military resistance. In 1946 the Dutch constituted Bali as one of the 13 administrative districts of the newly-proclaimed Republic of East Indonesia, a rival state to the Republic of Indonesia which was proclaimed and headed by Sukarno and Hatta. Bali was included in the "Republic of the United States of Indonesia" when the Netherlands recognised Indonesian independence on 29 December 1949.

The 1963 eruption of Mount Agung killed thousands, created economic havoc and forced many displaced Balinese to be transmigrated to other parts of Indonesia.

Bali blast monument.

Bali blast monument.

Mirroring the widening of social divisions across Indonesia in the 1950s and early 1960s, Bali saw conflict between supporters of the traditional caste system, and those rejecting these traditional values. Politically, this was represented by opposing supporters of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and the Indonesian Nationalist Party (PNI), with tensions and ill-feeling further increased by the PKI's land reform programs. An attempted coup in Jakarta was put down by forces led by General Suharto. The army became the dominant power as it instigated a violent anti-communist purge, in which the PKI was blamed for the coup. Most estimates suggest that at least 500,000 people were killed across Indonesia, with as many as 100,000 killed in Bali, equivalent to 5 per cent of the island's population. With no Islamic forces involved as in Java and Sumatra, upper-caste PNI landlords lead the extermination of PKI members.

As a result of the 1965/66 upheavals, Suharto was able to manoeuvre Sukarno out of the presidency, and his "New Order" government reestablished relations with western countries. The Bali as a tourist paradise which was instigated during the pre World War II colonial time was revised in a modern form, and the resulting large growth in tourism has led to Balinese standards of living rise dramatically and significant foreign exchange earned for the country. A bombing in 2002 by militant Islamists in the tourist area of Kuta killed 202 people, mostly foreigners. This attack, and another in 2005, severely affected tourism, bringing much economic hardship to the island.Take from (Wikipedia)

Kuta

Kuta that was located at the south of the Balinese island, was one of the young coconuts the future development of Balinese tourism. Previously this place was the settlement of the Balinese fisherman and together with the Indonesian tourism expansion and Bali especially, the inhabitants local began to hire out the personal house to be hired out as the place of accommodation. Now the Kuta region develops by the Balinese tourism icon or more was known with the International term city because of being the place of tourists's meeting from all over the world but also local tourists. Seen from the aspect of Kuta facilities had complete facilities. Accommodation or the hotel, the restaurant, spa and the supporter of other tourism of much tar could here. The Kuta coast was the tourist attraction that often was chosen to finish the holiday during in Kuta. The coast was with this white sand chosen as the place of sport surfing but also really was suitable for the relaxing place while waiting for the beauty sunset the Kuta coast. Was not wrong thousands of tourists always filled up this coast.

Bedugul

The Bedugul tour region, that was located in the Tabanan regency, offered the atmosphere of hills that calmed and beauty of the Tamablingan lake. Once to Kintamani? This place also offered the atmosphere of hills with the temperature around 18 levels celcius plus the so beautiful lake. To enjoy beauty of the lake here, was enough with leased speed boat you could go round the lake. Close to this lake also you could enjoy the serving of the lunch in the local restaurant with the Indonesian cooking menu and also international. Tired playing in the lake? Be calming for yourself again by visiting the Botanic Garden of Eka Karya Bedugul while buying the present take the form of strawberry, that was one of the sources of the income of the local inhabitants. This botanic garden was one of the protected forests that functioned as the air lungs in Bali, so as to close the operational cost and the maintenance, this region then dikomersilkan.Dan this wrong the photograph of the tour bedugul.

Dreamland Bali

Wanted tau the most beautiful coast in Bali apart from the Kuta coast? His answer of course the Dreamland coast in the Pecatu region uluwatu. This coast was so beautiful and was not as solid as the Kuta coast his visitor. Certainly with this situation you will be pleasanter and could enjoy the atmosphere of the coast that was known as the place surfing this. With the trip approximately 30 minutes from Kuta headed the Jimbaran direction afterwards Pecatu, you will arrive in here. The coastal region dreamland at this time was developed as the tour region Balinese Pecatu Resorts complete with the golf-course 18 hole, international schools, the international hospital, shopping mall and other tour means. Certainly not again old this region will become the tour region that exclusive and dimanage with more baik.Dan this the coast dreamland Bali: