Tirta Gangga: The Ornate Watercourts

The photo  was taken at Tirta Gangga, Karangasem with the background of watercourt that is decorated with alluring fountains and statues

Bali is exposed with the green state pictures of its landscapes and nature. Culture is the highlight of tourism that world has known about it. Nominated as the best island of the world, Bali whatsoever could cover any interest of traveller community around the globe. So now you are in Bali but not feeling to push your self for an adventurous trip to expolre it, so try the easy ones. If you are willing to explore the beauty of Bali with only light trip, tourguidebali had designed a tour package that make it possible to you to enjoy an excursion with no rush, no fatigue. This tour is designed to make you feel relaxed but still could discover some alluring places that are worth to see.

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Anthony and Stephanie Le in front of the Candis at Gunung Kawi Temple

Kintamani is one of the beautiful place to visit while you are staying in Bali. A fascinating panoramic view of volcan and lake Batur could be seen clearly from the balcony of your restaurant. Some interesting sites are reachable on the route to Kintamani, such as; Gunung Kawi, Tirta Empul, and Pengelipuran. However, on this tour we will take some exercises or experiential activities at the previous sites in your convenience. This tour covers various landscapes suche as river, valley, spring, lake, hills, and volcan. A wonderful day of sightseeing might throw all the stressful life off. Reset your mind with the nude of nature so you will be ready to start again after the holidays.

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A photo of Stephanie Le at Ceking Rice Terrace, Tegalalang on a daytrip with tourguidebali

Ubud, now and then, will always be the destination of peace seeker. The aesthetic life that has been screening for century could always attracting people to come and stay, as long as they want to feel the life. That is might be too exaggerated, but whoever have stayed will always want to stay. Whenever you are willing to come to Bali make sure that you have booked your accomodation in Ubud, or you could take a day tour exploring the jewel of Bali.

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Thanks for all the unforgettable memories that have beencoloring each day of 2015. We wish you Happy New Year 2016, now we are ready to make a greater story of 2016. Book your holidays to Bali and see you soon!

Our Best Regards,

Tourguidebali & Team

Tour Guide Bali

This page is created to offer you some options of how you could choose your tour in Bali. There are some tours that offered to you as the most favorable routes for mostly of traveler that want to explore the island. The selected tour that offered are attached with the prominent place of interests in Bali. Each of them covers the many different landscapes and temples that are mixed in one package. So it does not matter if you have only a short stay, because a day tour could give you an amazing experience that you might tell when you are back home.
We provide you a comfortable private tour to get closer with the so-told paradise island and what is dwelling beyond.

Another Story of Bali

It has been so long since I have created this blog and never had enough time to represent the stories that have enriched my life with those gradient colors. But today was a day to remember because I was playing roving-stranger on my own island. The day was started because I had a promise to take a friend from Chile, called Laura, to explore the island while her stay in Bali until January. Our meeting in Ubud was a coincidence, but I don’t believe it, as I never did. However, we were occupied for our works and finally could organized a trip today. It was a no plan trip, however, we went south. We were on my scooter towards Kuta to fulfill her desire of its most famous beach, and as usual it was full. We took some photos and watch the mesmerizing scenes of the surfers that were drifting on gentle waves. when we decided to leave I found the sand had swept my sunglasses away because it might fell off from my unclicked longsleeve shirt’s pocket that I previously it hung up carelessly on a chopped branch of the tree. But the lost was not a problem because we could not find a comfort place to dwell and proceed ourselves to swim. So then I asked Laura to delay it until I took her to the southern cliffed-beach socalled Balangan.

Tips berwisata ke Bali untuk Backpacker atau Sole Traveller

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Bali telah menjadi tujuan wisata untuk semua kalangan wisatawan, dari wisatawan domestik sampai wisatawan asing di seluruh dunia, dari kalangan VIP, bisnis, sampai kalangan Backpacker dan dari grup atau keluarga sampai kalangan sole traveller. Pada kenyataannya, di era globalisasi seperti sekarang ini arus informasi sangat deras hingga sampai ke seluruh pelosok dunia. Travelling sekarang bukan hanya milik bangsawan Inggris atau Eropa saja, tetapi peluang terbuka untuk siapa saja yang memiliki keinginan untuk mengetahui bagaimana dunia diluar negeri sendiri dan tempat-tempat indah yang menjanjikan pengalaman seumur hidup yang membuka wawasan kita tentang dunia. Hal-hal pendukung yang memudahkan para traveller mulai dari ticket pesawat murah dari Low-Cost Carrier service dari banyak maskapai penerbangan yang bersaing untuk mendapatkan penumpang, sampai akomodasi yang murah disetiap tempat yang juga akibat persaingan harga dari penyedia akomodasi. Jadi travelling tidak lagi mengharuskan para traveller untuk menyiapkan budget yang besar. Selain masalah budget tentunya banyak traveller memilih berwisata sebagai backpacker untuk memperkaya pengalaman dan memenuhi kepuasan sebagai petualang sejati. Banyak cerita yang menginspirasi traveller untuk terus menjelajahi setiap tempat di dunia dan Bali selalu menawarkan keunikan dan keindahannya untuk menjadi salah satu tujuan bagi para traveller.

“Di tahun 2014 jumlah kunjungan wisatawan asing mencapai 3,7 juta orang melebihi target yang awalnya diperkirakan yaitu 3,1 juta orang dan wisatawan domestik sekitar 7 juta orang meningkat 1 juta dari tahun 2013.”

Dikutip dari Tribunnews.com, Minggu 11 Januari 2015.

Pertumbuhan wisatawan yang datang ke Bali mengalami peningkatan di setiap tahunnya dan ini menjadi bukti bahwa Bali sangat pantas untuk dikunjungi bagi para traveller khususnya wisatawan domestik yang belum sempat menikmati keindahannya. Bali menjadi pintu masuk para wisatawan asing yang berkunjung ke Indonesia. Bali menawarkan banyak tempat menarik yang tidak dimiliki tempat lain, selain itu menjadi akses utama menuju tempat-tempat wisata lain di seluruh indonesia. Letaknya yang strategis memudahkan para traveller untuk mengeksplor pulau-pulau indah di bagian timur Indonesia. Banyak wisatawan yang melakukan tur melintasi pulau-pulau di Indonesia dengan segala keunikannya di setiap daerah dan Bali selalu masuk dalam opsi pertama dari perjalan mereka.

Untuk destinasi wisata yang populer seperti Tanah Lot, Uluwatu, Kebun Raya Bedugul, Ulun Danu Beratan, Sangeh, dan Tirta Empul dipenuhi dengan wisatawan di setiap tahun. Namun Bali menyimpan begitu banyak keindahan disetiap sudutnya. Dengan melakukan sedikit eksplorasi traveller dapat menemukan tempat-tempat indah yang belum banyak dikunjungi wisatawan seperti contoh foto-foto di dibawah ini:

Foto-foto berasal dari beberapa sumber di internet.

Masih banyak tempat-tempat wisata lainnya dan tempat hiburan seperti restaurant, cafe, dan bar yang menambah pesona pulau Bali sebagai destinasi wisata favorit untuk para traveller yang ingin berkunjung. Selain itu masih banyak keunikan budaya yang direalisasikan melalui festival dan upacara di bulan-bulan tertentu. Berhubungan dengan itu waktu yang baik untuk berkunjung ke Bali adalah dari bulan April sampai bulan Agustus. Banyak upacara seperti Nyepi, Galungan, Festival Layang-Layang, Pesta Kesenian Bali, dan banyak lagi.

Semoga bermanfaat bagi para traveller yang ingin berkunjung untuk mengeksplor keindahan di pulau dewata. Untuk informasi tentang jasa transportasi dan tour guide di Bali dapat menghubungi:

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Email: tourguidebali@yahoo.com

New Year: My One Word for 2015 and Why I Can’t Leave 2014 Behind

Lily Ellyn

In Korea people don’t stay up until midnight to ring in the New Year. Instead, they get up in the middle of the night and they hike a mountain. They climb through the dark, snowy pre-dawn hours and when they reach the top they stand with their faces to the sky to greet the first sunrise of the New Year.

What a contrast to how we in the West often enter the New Year – stumbling out of bed at noon, tired and quite possibly hungover. For many, January 1st is a day of recovery. We spend New Year’s Eve celebrating the ending of something and the beginning of a new thing. We bombard the internet with reflections on the previous year. Even the less introspective among us take a moment to declare the past year, “the best” or “the hardest” or “the craziest” year of their lives.

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Kecak is a classical Balinese dance and music drama that was developed in the 1930s in Bali, Indonesia. It is performed by a circle of at least 150 performers wearing checked cloth around their waists, percussively chanting “cak-cak-cak” and moving their hands and arms as the background of depicts a battle from epic hindu story, Ramayana.

The dance was originally a trance ritual accompanied by male chorus. In 1930s, Walter Spies, a German painter and musician worked with the native artist Wayan Limbak was giving a great contribution of how Kecak designed in the taste of western tourist with several innovations and adaptations from both artists. They have made the dance well known by arranging performances by Balinese group touring internationally. Now kecak becomes the iconic dance as “A Must to See Performance” while your visit in Bali.

Now a days, there are some facilities in Bali that provide Kecak Dance Performance for the tourist who want to see it while having a tour in Bali. The dance shortened in more or less 1 hour duration without eliminating the essence of the story and make it suitable to combine with other tour programs. The image above is taken at Uluwatu Temple, Southwest corner cliff of Bali Island. It was part of Half Day Tour Packages for Uluwatu Temple. The tour started at noon exploring the beautifull beaches in Shout part of Bali such as Balangan Beach, Padang-Padang Beach, or Pandawa Beach and ended with the Kecak Dance Performance that overlapping the magnificent sunset in additional of visiting the sacred temple Pura Luhur Uluwatu. You will be amazed with spectacles on the way exploring the South part of Bali.

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Continued to Jimbaran Bay for a candlelight dinner on the golden sands of Jimbaran Beach will close your memorable day to be perfect.

Photo by Menega Cafe, Jimbaran Bay

The rates for Half Day Tour is USD 35, you could see the rates list on the Service page on this blog. For further informations please send me an email or do the reservation.

New Year 2015: Planning trip to Bali, Indonesia

A new year had come! A new hope, new plan, new destination, although they are not quite new but let say it NEW. We need to say it new for the hope sake. People always hoping something new in their life. People wake up everyday with a hope of new things. Imagine that you wake up everyday with a routine plus you have to do the households. Start your day with a cup of tea and end it with the same way. Looking at your photographs on the dusty table. A painting of tropical landscape is hanging on the plain white wall. Everything you have designed seems to be bothersome for your daily sightseeing. Now you need a break, you need a bit of unarranged activities, you are waiting for holiday!

In the previous year, you have been done many things but one that you will remember, one that you really want to be repeated is HOLIDAYS. It is always fun and bliss spending time on vacation, far away from home to see something different or new. The good thing about holidays is make you raise and live again. New place, climate, people, language, culture, culinary, etc. You step your feet in the land of expectation, you experience the calm breeze of tropical area or else you enjoy the rain pour into your body while you are walking around the rainforest and perhaps only stay in your hotel room witnessing the snow while having a sip of hot chocolate.

It might sound weird but for Balinese people having a snow is a dream holiday that they could ever imagine. However, If you are planning to come to Bali you will find nothing about snow. Bali is located just 8 degrees below the equator, indeed we are a tropical island that only have dry and wet season (wet: rain) but never snow. Alas, if you see some references like “Snowing in Bali,” the title of book about Bali, written by Australian author Kathryn Bonella. Yes, Bali becomes the topic of discussion these recent times. There are so many articles about the beauty of Bali, about its wonderful sceneries, about its unique culture, calm atmosphere, friendly people, and yet there are many of following bad issues revealed. Therefore, I would not explain you again about the beauties of the island. But tell me one place of no disorders, nowhere! Even the most dangerous place which has the reputation of the biggest narcotrafficking place like Colombia with its famous Pablo Escobar has a hidden beauty of its nature and landscape. It has a new slogan for its tourism tag line, “El riesgo es te quieras quedar”  which means “the risk is wanting to stay.” Indeed, the slogan is suitable for any place all over the world. Because the hidden core is always not so easy to find, it could not be seen by the surface. The core that always covered by layers. Ad hoc, a travel experience is really depeding on the traveller themselves. What you want to see in a place is depend on you.

Why have to come to Bali?

There are some facts about what you have read above. Bali is known for its magical beauty long time ago precede the bad issues come up later after it is laden with tourists. Bali has been a tourist destination since its first discover in 1920s by several gipsies and artists all over the world who was seeking for peace and beauty of the nature. Most of them are painters and writers who had contribute an immense amount of art work that indirectly, in such ways, were promoting this paradise island to the worldwide society. Thanks to them that have appriciated and helped the natives to preserve the exellences of Bali.

In line with the take and give philosophy people who could enjoy the real Bali are the people who was stayed with this vision, either the tourists or the native inhabitants. What you take is what you give, what you eat is what you are, and what you see is what you become. The life in Bali is a complex balance. We do sacred offerings, we over-smiling to others, we do arts, we pray to God and all its manifestations, we do cremation for the deads, we celebrate the festival, and we preserve the nature. All are in strict traditions to keep the balance. Therefore, do not expect an Eden without the devilish snake. God makes everything black and white or even colorful. So if you come to Bali with cognition, you will have an extraordinary experience.

Many people have experienced Bali and wrote about fascinating feedback. Not a few of them have decided to come back. Second to twenty-fifth time in Bali does not matter. Some have stayed for years and some never leave. So there are no reason to not come.

Hopefully this writting could encourage you to come.

Please write me an email for any questions about planning your trip to Bali. I would gladly acknowledge you with objective advices.

Cordially,

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