Lovina
Lovina Beach is a long narrow strech of black volcano sand on the north shore of Bali. Virtually empty most of the year, Lovina, like most of Bali, fills up with tourists from all over the world in August. It is a nice break from the bustle of Kuta.
You can hire a car from rentcar-bali.com and drive up from the South. Far better, given the relative costs and the roads/driving in Bali, hire a driver and car. You can travel from Kuta in less than 3hrs and from the airport or Sanur in about 2.30hrs. You will travel through (Pura Ulun Danau) Bedugul and could go the pretty way through Munduk if you are not in a hurry. So you could stop to take in the temple, lakes and rice paddies on your trip and make a day of it.
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Jimbaran
Jimbaran is just south of Kuta. It was formerly just a village of fishermen, but is now home to a couple of five-star beach resorts. Two dozen seaside grilled seafood restaurants are a major tourist draw, as are the beautiful sunsets.
Jimbaran has little shopping or night-life of its own, but has the advantage of being closer to Kuta and Seminyak (and the cultural highlights of central Bali) than Nusa Dua.
Jimbaran is between Kuta and the Bukit Peninsula, with Nusa Dua to the southeast and Uluwatu to the southwest. It’s only 10 minutes south of the airport and a fixed-price airport taxi costs about Rp 50,000. If you walk 300 meters to the airport entrance to find a meter taxi, the ride costs about Rp 35,000. Jimbaran is around 20 mins drive to Seminyak and 25 mins to Sanur.
The beach is mostly calm, so it’s suitable for swimming, but not for motorized water sports. Sunset in Jimbaran is very beautiful. Arrive at this beach at around 5.00 PM, take a seat in one of the reastaurants located on the beach. Order some food, drink, and enjoy this romantic sunset while waiting for your orders.
Jimbaran is home to about two dozen grilled seafood restaurants, packed together all in a row along a stretch of beach. The tables are set up right on the sand, and if you sit in the lowest tables near high tide, you can find your feet getting wet. The sea breeze is cool, and the sunsets are beautiful. The area is lit by torches after dark.
The restaurants all serve essentially the same menu with one basic dining format: fire-grilled seafood (your choice of various fish, crab, squid, shrimp, lobster, and shellfish); a local vegetable known loosely as water spinach, steamed with garlic; rice; and local sauces. You can go up to the seafood tanks near the kitchen and choose the number and type of creatures you want to eat, paying by wieght, or just order from the menu and they will serve up a typical amount.
Prices are reasonable. Dinner for two, with local Bintang beer or soft drinks, costs in the range of Rp 120,000 – 250,000 depending on quantity and type of seafood selected. The crab and red snapper are especially good.
The combination of atmosphere and good food make this a memorable and delightful place to spend an evening.
There have been reports of overcharging and scale tampering, particularly as regards to the sale of prawns (May 2008).
Jimbaran was the site of a terrorist bombing in 2005, but the sand and airy construction of the restaurants kept casualties much lower than in the previous Kuta attack.
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Asean beach games director lauds president’s support
JAKARTA, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) — The organizing committee of the Asian Beach Games, to be held next month, is confident that the support of Indonsian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will attactsponsor to the games, a paper said here Tuesday.
“We have a (financial) guarantee from the government. That will help us to get more sponsorship for the Games,” marketing and public relations director for the Bali Asian Beach Games OrganizingCommittee (Babgoc) Sony Subrata quoted by the Jakarta Post as saying.
President Susilo made his statement on September 9 that he was willing to lend his support to the success of the games.
The event organizer will launch a series of promotional ads, including 30-second television commercials that cost 2.7 million U.S. dollars, Sony said.
“We have prepared the material for the (TV) advertisement. It will be aired on local TV stations and international channels, suchas ESPN, CNN and BBC, starting Thursday,” he said.
The Asian Beach Games will be held from Oct. 18 to 26.
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Nusa Dua
Nusa Dua is a planned resort area located on the southeastern end of Bali.
In the early 1980s the Suharto government and its friends in the Indonesian military saw that it would be beneficial to acquire a slice of the rapidly developing tourist industry in Bali. There was also a need, for reasons of national prestige, to have a facility able to host international events at the highest level — Jakarta, the capital city in Java, was considered too unsightly and also too chaotic to be able to provide adequate security for visiting foreign dignitaries.
The solution was to section off the relatively undeveloped peninsula at the south of Bali and provide it with infrastructure suitable for first-world visitors — for example, unlike some other parts of Bali, water in Nusa Dua can safely be drunk straight from the tap and electricity supply is constant.
The narrow strip leading to Nusa Dua makes it easy to control access to the development area, where numerous large American-style hotel complexes have been constructed.
The development scheme opened for business in late April 1986 with the arrival of President Ronald Reagan for a regional economic conference.
President Reagan stayed at the first of the hotels to be constructed in the Nusa Dua enclave, the Nusa Dua Beach Hotel – architecturally one of the most spectacularly beautiful hotels in the region. The adjacent convention center is a reminder of the original purpose of the Nusa Dua development.
Hotels are generally large, high class and have rates that reflect their status.
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Sanur Beach
While the rest of Bali’s beaches have developed at a breathtaking pace, Bali’s first beach resort remains largely unchanged.
Sanur is one of Bali’s biggest traditional villages but it’s also one of the most established tourist areas. Fine hotels, restaurants and modern entertainment venues compliment traditional village activities like drama and dance, so it’s a good place to enjoy the delights of a tropical island and gain a real appreciation of Balinese culture and local life.
Gradual and early development has meant that Sanur has grown alongside the village, with hotels located right next door to local meeting halls and Brahmanic temples. Many hotels have expansive gardens that face the ocean in a picturesque unbroken seaside promenade.
Excellent value in all categories. Our recommendations: Bali Hyatt (distinctive rustic charm) Sanur Paradise Plaza (formerly Radisson)
Hang out, sunbathe on the soft sand beach. Located on the east coast, Sanur has a coral reef that makes it ideal for snorkeling – you can even do sea-walking. While local beach restaurants and bars provide an ethnic alternative to hotel dining.
Watersports. More and more popular, both within and beyond the reef.
Sanur is an important religious centre and the venue for many colourful ceremonies and traditional dances that mark the calendar each year. It’s also the kind of place where exclusive hotels, boutiques and chic restaurants nestle in with the local shops and cultural centres.
Explore Sanur’s shady lanes and discover traditional markets, shops nightspots and local life, especially in the late afternoon.
Nightlife in Sanur is pretty relaxed. It starts and finishes earlier than in Kuta. Most restaurants fill up early in the evening and apart from a few bars and the disco, generally wind up around midnight.
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Ubud
Ubud is a remarkable town in the middle of the island of Bali. For more than a century, it has been the island’s preeminent centre for fine arts, dance and music. While it once was a haven for scruffy backpackers, cosmic seekers, artists and bohemians, Ubud is now a hot spot for literati, glitterati, art collectors and connoisseurs. Famous names walk its busy sidewalks everyday. Elegant five star hotels and sprawling mansions now stand on its outskirts, overlooking the most prized views in Bali. Nonetheless, Ubud is still popular with backpackers, mystics and all the finest fringe elements of global society. Ubud is not “ruined”. Its character is too strong to be destroyed. It still draws people who add something; people who are actively involved in art, nature, anthropology, music, dance, architecture, environmentalism, “alternative modalities,” and more.
Ubud is arguably the best place to use as a base if you’re visiting Bali; if you’re looking for culture, comfort, nature and inspiration. Ubud is surrounded by most of the things that bring people to Bali — scenic rice fields, small villages, art and craft communities, ancient temples, palaces, rivers, cheap accommodation and unique luxury hotels. And it’s central location makes it easy to get from Ubud to the mountains, beaches, and major towns.
The real Ubud is under the surface. There are plenty of interesting things on the main streets, but most of the magic of Ubud is hidden away. In the backstreets, backwaters, courtyards and cafes. In people’s hearts, minds, and dreams. This part of the Bali web site was built to show you how to go behind the facade and find the real Ubud, and the real Bali, without having to spend all your time searching for it. There’s no point in repeating what’s in the guidebooks, so we’ve tried not to. If you’re interested in Ubud, there are at least a dozen guidebooks on Bali available and they all provide information on Ubud. Use this web site before you go to guidebooks, to find out what makes Ubud so special. Then use it after the guidebooks for up-to-date information, news and features about our extra ordinary town.
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Kuta Beach
Kuta Beach bustles with tourists vendors and locals. It’s the most popular beach in Bali and the island’s number one party zone.
Rapid development and an influx of visitors hasn’t kept the surfers away and Kuta still remains one of Bali’s best surfing beaches and a great place to enjoy the beach life.
While the surfers are still part of the Kuta scene, it’s the shopping, nightlife and party vibes that attracts thousands of visitors. There’s a huge choice of accommodation, restaurants and entertainment; so if you want to be within walking distance of a cool beach lifestyle by day and party by night – this is place.
Over the years Kuta development has spread out – almost absorbing the neighbouring villages of Legian and Tuban which now provide a quieter alternative to Kuta central.
New hotel developments, guest houses and resorts fill every available space, yet almost all amenities are within walking distance or a short taxi ride. Seminyak, once a quiet local village, on the fringes of Kuta, has now become the smart sophisticated end, with fine dining and numerous local lifestyle shops.
Relax.. on Bali’s longest public beach. Hang out, sunbathe, eat, drink, play a game of volleyball or a challenge beach football match. Meet locals and other visitors and watch a stunning sunset over a perfect sundowner. Kuta basically offers 5 kilometres of hotels, bars, Internet cafes, juice bars, surf shops, restaurants, travel agencies and mini-marts. It can be (depending on the time of day and which end of the beach you prefer) busy and vibrant or totally chilled out.
Around the end of Jalan Double Six, about 15 minutes from Kuta centre is Dreamland Beach. Lots of afternoon action and ball games, with plenty of drinks stands to make new (girl) friends. No shortage of bars and places to eat with some excellent places to chill and drink like Zanzibar and Blue Ocean.
Surfing! Bring your own board or rent one from the guys on the beach. Prices vary but average around 30,000rp per hour. If you haven’t surfed before its the perfect place to learn. You can get a boat ride out to the outer reef breaks of Tuban or surf mellow beach breaks in front of the Hard Rock Hotel.
Kuta’s nightlife now extends about 7 kilometres (4 miles) north from the original village of Kuta and includes Legian, Seminyak stretching to Basangkasa. Kuta is entertainment central which means music clubs, open-air pubs, karaoke bars, very noisy discos and drag shows. It’s a lively party scene to say the least and the kind of place where being single and alone – male or female is no problem whatsoever.
Kuta has a huge selection of restaurants serving both local and a wide variety of foreign cuisines.
Shopping! Forget your Gucci’s and Prada. Bali has its own designers producing one-off pieces for fashion clothing and lifestyle goods. Lots of individuality here at often reasonable prices. You’ll end up with a treasure trove of interesting, fascinating and irresistible buys. Excellent for unusual clothes, jewellry, household and lifestyle items. Kuta’s main street has renowned shopping, in mostly small locally owned shops. Individual styles, excellent craftsmanship and low prices.
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