Recreation and Sports in Bali

Bali Island is located in Indonesia. Denpasar is the provincial capital. Bali extent is 5632 square kilometers.

Bali Island is very famous all over the world as a tourism destination for foreign tourists and local tourists. Bali Island is one of the best place in the world for the purpose of tourism, many tourists come to Bali for recreation, sport and leisure. Balinese provide complete facilities for the tourists, such as hotels, star hotels, lodging, inn, restaurant, fast food restaurant, supermarket, shopping center, spa, bar, cafe, transportation, and so forth. Balinese provide all needed by the tourists.

Balinese society is very friendly and fun. Bali is a majority of the people are Hindu.
Balinese rich culture, Bali have many beautiful places that can visit. Places that you can visit such as the beaches, temples, mountains, hills, lakes, rivers, villages, cities, markets, museums, galleries, wood sculpture art center, stone sculpture art center, art center of silver, art center of gold, and other .

Some tourism objects in the Bali Island that are important to the visit, namely:
Kuta Beach, Sanur Beach, Nusa Dua Beach, Seminyak Beach, Legian Beach, Jimbaran Beach, Tanjung Benoa Beach, Dreamland Beach, Padang-Padang Beach, Snorkeling And Diving In West Bali, Sawung Serangan, GitGit Waterfall, Danau Batur (Batur Lake), Danau Bratan (Bratan Lake), Bedugul, Pura Ulun Danu (Ulun Danu Temple), Pura Besakih (Besakih Temple), Pura Taman Ayun (Taman Ayun Temple), Pura Luhur Uluwatu (Luhur Uluwatu Temple), Bangli, Sangsit, Taman Tirta Gangga (Tirta Gangga Garden), Garuda Wisnu Kencana, Mas Village, Celuk Village, Batu Bulan, Ubud Village, Tanah Lot (Land Of Lot), Tanah Wuk (Land Of Wuk), Bedulu, Sangeh, Goa Gajah (Elephant Cave), Goa Lawah (Bat Cave), Bukit Jambul (Jambul Hill), Tampak Siring, Trunyan, Gunung Agung (Mount Agung), Gunung Batur (Mount Batur), Gunung Kawi (Mount Kawi).

The time is right to go to Bali island
Bali is a tropical island which has 2 seasons namely the rainy season and dry season.
Weather on the island of Bali is very comfortable. Every day, sunrise at 6 AM and sunset at 6 PM. Air temperatures average 31 degrees Celsius.
The best time to visit is the island of Bali in the months April to October.

Pantai Kuta (Kuta Beach)

Kuta Beach is located in Badung Regency, only 9 km from Denpasar. Denpasar is the capital of Bali, Island of Bali.
Previously, Kuta is the fishermen village. Now, Kuta has become a destination for foreign tourists.
Kuta area is called the International City. The icon is given because of Kuta is the place to meet tourists from all over the world.
Now Kuta has changed into a small international town owns complete tourism facilities.

Activities in the Kuta Beach:

In the morning until the afternoon
Activities that can be done is sunbathing on the beach, swimming, surfing sports, beach volleyball, walk along the beach.
Kuta Beach is the ideal place for sports as surfing.
Kuta Beach is wide and white sandy is liked most by tourists to sunbath, swimming, or surfing.

In the afternoon
Kuta Beach is famous scenic sunset, many tourists who come for the afternoon to see the beautiful sunset. The sunset in Kuta is most breathtaking.
At sunset, the beach is a lively place, and the roads are full of cars and motorbikes.
Kuta Beach is known as sunset beach while Sanur Beach is known as sunrise beach.

In the evening
At night, Kuta is alive with night life. The village abounds with restaurants, shops, pubs, discotheques, dance clubs and other tourist facilities.
Almost every evening there is a performance of Bali Dance somewhere in Kuta.

Facilities available in the Kuta area
Facilities available are the hotel, lodging, swimming pool, spa, bars, shops, souvenir shops.
Kuta area has full facilities, many other supporting facilities available.

Pantai Sanur (Sanur Beach)

Sanur Beach is located in Sanur Village, approximately 6 km from the City of Denpasar, Bali Province, Island of Bali. Sanur beach is easily reachable from Denpasar, about a 5 to 10 minute drive.

Sanur beach is the beach for family recreation, many families come from the City of Denpasar to Sanur beach for relaxing.

Activities in the Sanur Beach, Bali:
Sanur Beach has waves that are not too big so that is suitable to perform activities such as swimming, bathing in the sea, canoeist sport, fish fishing, parasailing and other activities.
In the Sanur Beach, we can jog along the white sandy beach.

At Sanur beach, many foreign tourists sunbathing on the beach while enjoying the beautiful Sanur Beach.
Sanur beach famous for the beautiful sunrise. Sunrise in the morning in Sanur Beach with so beautiful. Sanur Beach is an excellent site to watch the sunrise.

It is interesting in the Sanur Beach
● In the north of Sanur Beach, the beach form a circle like a half circle.
● The south coast turn from east to west.
● When the sea water receding, it will show the beauty of coral reefs.
● Nusa Penida island across the sea can be seen from the Sanur Beach.
● From Sanur Beach, Serangan Island across the sea can be seen.
● In the area of Sanur beach, it’s found a museum, its name is Le Mayeur Museum.

Facilities available
Around Sanur beach there are many star hotels, hotel, lodging, villas, resorts, restaurants, fast food restaurants, souvenir shops.

Candi Prambanan (The Prambanan Temple)

Prambanan Temple from the City of Yogyakarta is only about 17 km, located in the northeast of City of Yogyakarta, precisely at the main road from Yogyakarta to Solo City.

Prambanan Temple is a Hindu religious heritage that was built on the 9 th century by the two princes, the name of the king is Rakai Pikatan and Balitung. This temple is 47 meters high, over 5 meters high from the Borobudur Temple.
Prambanan Temple is very interesting, the surrounding beautiful scenery. At night, the Prambanan have showtimes ballet, its name is the Ramayana Ballet. Ramayana Ballet is a dance that is very romantic, many tourists who come to see these dances.

Prambanan have 3 pages, namely:

First page or Home Page
Shaped squares with the side length of 110 meters.
Here, there are 3 main temples namely Wisnu Temple (north of Siwa Temple), Siwa Temple (in the middle as the main temple) and the Brahma Temple (south of Siwa Temple). The three main temple is facing east. Main Temple (Wisnu, Siwa, Brahma) have assistant, its name is the Pendamping Temple, this temple is located in front of Candi Wisnu, Brahma and Siwa.

In every Pendamping Temple, there is a statue of a vehicle Wisnu, Siwa and Brahma.
The names of the vehicles are:
Garuda sculpture as a vehicle of god Wisnu
Lembu sculpture named Nandi, as a vehicle of god Siwa
Angsa sculpture as a vehicle of god Brahma

There are still 2 Apit Temple, there are 4 Kelir Temple, there are 4 Sudut Temple.
Siwa temple building is the highest and have 4 rooms which consist of one main room contains a statue of Siwa and 3 other rooms that each contains a Durga statue (the wife of Siwa), Agastya (teacher of Siwa) and Ganesha (the son of Siwa). In the legend of the people, a Durga statue is called as a Roro Jonggrang statue.

Middle Page
Shaped squares with the side length of 222 meters and located lower than the first page.
On this page there are 224 pieces Perwara temple, which is organized on the 4 line comparison with the number 68, 60, 52 and 44 temples. The order is the order of the concentric to the main page.

Outside Page
Shaped squares with the side length of 390 meters

Visitors can visit every day to Prambanan Temple, start from 06:00 AM until 17:30 PM.

Candi Borobudur (The Borobudur Temple)

Borobudur temple is located in the northwest of Yogyakarta and around 40 km to the trip by car or motorcycle.

As is already known by the world, Yogyakarta is a tourist destination for domestic tourists and foreign tourists. Each year, Yogyakarta visited by foreign tourists and the Borobudur Temple is one of tourism object visited by foreign tourists.

Borobudur temple is a Buddhist religious monument built on the 9 th century by the king Samaratungga. Borobudur Temple is very beautiful, very imposing architecture and is one of the wonders of the world.
Borobudur is a tourism object that is very famous around the world, many people who feel not satisfied in their life if they have not come to Borobudur.

Form of Borobudur Temple is stratified and consists of 10 levels, namely:
Six lower-level part is shaped squares
Three level above has a form of circle
One level is the highest form of a statue of Buddha

Each level is a symbol of the stages of human life, symbolizing that everyone who wants to reach the level of Buddha should be through all levels of life.

Borobudur temple is often used as a place to celebrate the Day Waisak. Waisak is one of the Buddhist feast.

Every day, visitors can start a visit to Borobudur from 06:00 AM until 17:30 PM.