Bali Tourism Destination

The location of GWK Cultural Park is located on Jalan Raya Uluwatu, Ungasan Jimbaran, Badung Regency. It is easy to find this location because it is located in the tourist area of Uluwatu and around Udayana University campus area. If you are in the Kuta Beach tourist area or from the international airport I Gusti Ngurah Rai Bali, GWK location is very close only 10 - 15 kilometers with travel time about 10 - 20 minutes. You can also go to this place by riding motorcycle or car. For the entrance fee of this place, for domestic tourists about 60,000 rupiah and foreign tourists around 100,000 rupiah. It's good to you visit this place in the afternoon before the evening because the weather is still bright and meet sunset at the same time after that you can watch dance performances too. For more further information, you can visit GWK website.

Bali Travel Guide - Bali Island has many choices of tourist attractions that you can visit, if you want a different tourist atmosphere in general such as beaches, temples, etc., you can try one other alternative ie hot spring. Perhaps this alternative is suitable for those of you who are tired after traveling to various tourist attractions and want to chill while relaxation your body. One of the most famous hot spring on Bali Island and offers a very beautiful scenery while bathing is Batur Natural Hot Spring.

This place is called Toya Bungkah Batur Natural Hot Spring which offers a different sensation during hot bath where the bath is located on the edge of Lake Batur so that when soaking you can see the vast view of Lake Batur and surrounded by Mount Batur. In addition, you can see directly the activities of residents around the lake who work as fishermen and vegetable farmers. Toya Bungkah hot spring visited by many tourists, especially domestic tourists from Bali Island or Indonesia and also began to be visited by many foreign tourists.

Toya Bungkas hot springs have three pools, there is a large pool with the size of 18 x 17 meters for swimming then there is also a pool that contains a hot shower commonly used for therapy and lastly, there is a floating sunburn pool that can be used to soak while sunbathing with depth of 25 centimeters. Water temperature at Toya Bungkah hot spring is around 37 - 40 degrees Celsius. Soaking in hot water is believed to relieve aches, treat skin diseases, etc. because the hot water comes out native from the bowels of the earth directly without any processing and water containing sulfur.

The cost to enter the hot springs Toya Bungkah may be quite expensive about 60,000 rupiahs for domestic tourists and 100,000 rupiahs for foreign tourists. This fee includes welcome drink, soap, shampoo, and towels. If you are hungry after hours of soaking in the pond, at the top of the pool there is a restaurant with several cottages with a variety of fresh water fish menu. If you want to enjoy another restaurant, you can go to a famous restaurant close to the location of Toya Bungkah named Resto Apung. Toya Bungkah hot spring is open from 7 am to 7 pm.

The location of Toya Bungkah hot springs is located in Toya Bungkah village, Kintamani district, Bangli regency. If you depart from the Kuta Beach tourist area or the international airport I Gusti Ngurah Rai Bali to Toya Bungkah hot springs will travel about 80 kilometers with a time of about 2.5 hours. For those of you who plan to go to this place should use the services of tour guide by car because road passes through mountainous area and road which tortuous. In Toya Bungkah village there are two hot springs, and one of them is Toya Devasya Natural Hot Spring & Camping Resort which is also very famous with a distance of 120 meters after you pass Toya Bungkah Batur Natural Hot Spring. For more further information, you can visit Toya Bungkah Batur Natural Hot Springs website.

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Bali Travel Guide - Bali Island continues to grow with its tourism focus, this is comparable to the number of tourists visiting Bali which is increasing. Many new entertainment venues are created to enliven Bali tourism that is made by a local businessman as well as overseas investors. Seeing tourist arrivals to Bali Island that is dominated by tourists from Australia, this is what makes a famous Pool Club in Sydney Australia opened a branch in the area of Seminyak Bali named Mrs. Sippy.

Mrs. Sippy created and owned by Andrew Stanway and Ben May from Australia nowadays became a trending place that is visited by many local and foreign tourists. Mrs. Sippy which just opened in April 2017 yesterday presents the theme of oasis and pool club area, which has an area around of 800 m2 with the form of a stylish pool and sea salt water inside it. In addition, of course, there is a bar and restaurant around the pool that is very interesting enjoyed to relax.

Mrs. Sippy's area is partly a pool that is focused as a chilling pool, there is a diving platform that can be used for you who want to jump and it has different heights ranging from 1m, 3m, and 5m. For those of you who do not get a table, don't worry you can to choose an alternative to relax on daybeds around the pool surrounded by a very shady palm trees. The poolside of Mrs. Sippy is made to resemble the sand of the beach so you will feel very comfortable to relax in Mrs. Sippy's pool area.

Visitors can enjoy a variety of cocktails with a combination of fresh fruits that can be enjoyed in the Bar area or poolside while relaxing on a table or daybeds provided. In addition, the concept of the open-air kitchen where you can see the original chef from Australia that cooks the menu directly in front of you. Many of the menus that are offered can spoil your tongue like fresh salad, seafood grill, pizza and much more. At night you can enjoy the party accompanied by international DJ music from Australia. The price offered for the food and beverage menu at Mrs. Sippy is quite affordable, you can download Mrs. Sippy's menu directly from Mrs. Sippy's website.

The location of Mrs. Sippy is located at Jalan Ganesha Park, Gagak 8 Gang, Seminyak, this location is very near from Kuta Beach or I Gusti Ngurah Rai international airport you can reach this place about 30 minutes. Mrs. Sippy is open from 12 am to 12 pm. If you plan to visit this place I suggest you better is come with group friends to relax. For more further information, you can visit Mrs. Sippy's website.

Bali Travel Guide - Bali Island has a various kind of tourist attractions, which is the most dominant of them is beach tourism. Need to know, nowadays Bali Island is in developing that is start with the existence of the Tourism Village. The concept of this tourist village offers views of life and authenticity of indigenous Balinese culture inside it. One of the most famous and the first tourist villages in Bali Island is Penglipuran Village.

Penglipuran Village is one of the villages in Bali Island which until now still retains its ancestral cultural heritage and is not affected by the progress of civilization. This can be proven by you visiting this place, where the atmosphere of this village is still beautiful and even vehicles are not allowed to cross this village. The atmosphere of Bali in the past you can find when visiting this place.

Penglipuran Village is located in Kubu Village of Bangli Regency. The total area of Penglipuran Village is about 112 hectares but only 40% of the area is used as a residential area. When you reach this place, you will see only one street made of stone as the main road of this village from the lower area to the upper area. There are several gates or commonly called Angkul-Angkul on the left and right side of the road as the entrance gate to the area of the residential family. Angkul-Angkul and all the buildings of the resident houses have the same architectural form, it is intended that there is no difference between all residents. This is what makes Penglipuran Village looks very beautiful with the form of houses that are neat and look symmetrical.

The surroundings of Penglipuran Village are very clean even this village get the Kalpataru award certificate because they are able to preserve the environment. In addition, the village is also crowned as one of the cleanest villages in the world. If you visit this place, quiet and cool clean atmosphere you will get because of the location of this village which is quite far from the road and located 700 mdpl from sea level.

You can walk around the village by foot because there are no vehicles in this village. Vehicle parking is located further down and next, you can walk to the village area from the parking. This village area consists of 3 areas of which the lowest area is the cemetery, the second higher area is the residential area and the top third area is the temple where the residents do praying. In the northern part of the temple, there is a vast bamboo forest, tourists can also visit this bamboo forest by foot.

Penglipuran Village was inaugurated as a tourist village around 1995. This place is visited by many foreign tourists, after having appeared on the national TV show this place began to be visited by many domestic tourists. In addition to traveling around enjoying the village atmosphere, tourists can also visit the residential home and the surrounding residents will greet guests with very friendly.

To enter this tourist village of Penglipuran, you have to buy a ticket with the price of 30.000 rupiahs for foreign tourists and 15.000 rupiahs for domestic tourists. For those of you who plan to visit this place, I suggest using the travel services because this tourist spot located is quite far that is in the northern part of Bali Island. You can take this place with a distance of 45 kilometers with a travel time of about 2 hours if you departing from the international airport I Gusti Ngurah Rai Bali or Kuta Beach.

Bali Travel Guide - Tampak Siring is a tourist attraction on the island of Central Bali that is famous for the holy spring water in this tourist area. Tampak Siring is actually the name of a village from the location of this tourist attraction it is located in Tampak Siring Village Gianyar Regency. The real name of this tourist attraction is Pura Tirta Empul which is a temple in which there is a holy water bath inside it but somehow this tourist spot is more famous by the name Tampak Siring.

The meaning of the word 'Tirta' in the Bali language is holy water, this place is called Pura Tirta Empul because there is a source of holy spring water that appears in this temple area. This holy water is believed by the Balinese people to clean the body and soul of a person from all things that are negative. This is what makes Pura Tirta Empul many visited by people from all over the island of Bali to purify themselves. Many domestic and foreign tourists visit Pura Tirta Empul to see this holy spring water and bathing tradition in this place.

Pura Tirta Empul consists of 3 areas including the first area where there is a large hall that is used as a place to rest. The second area is where this holy water bath, where there are a pool and more than 10 of water shower that comes from the spring. Water that appears is very clear and cold even there is a lot of fish that live in this bath pool. The third area is a temple area where Hindus do praying after completion of self-cleaning.

Tourists who want to enter this place must buy a ticket at the price of 15.000 rupiahs and use the cloth that provided to honor the sacred temple area. Tourists are allowed to take a bath to clean themselves in this pool but there is a ban on women who are menstruating not allowed to enter the second area. For those of you who come during the holy day of Hindus then this place will be crowded with people who want to do the cleaning themselves.

At the top of Pura Tirta Empul area, there is a presidential palace building built by the first Indonesian president in 1957 to 1960 known as Tampak Siring Palace. You can see very clearly the area of presidential palace that very neat and clean from Pura Tirta Empul. Lately, the presidential palace area is no longer open to the public so tourists can not just go inside the palace.

For those of you who plan to visit this place, I suggest using travel services because the distance to Pura Tirta Empul from the international airport I Gusti Ngurah Rai Bali or Kuta Beach can be reached about 1 hour 20 minutes. If you are in the tourist area of Ubud, you can use the taxi to this place because the location is very close. Tampak Siring is a fresh tourist place that you must visit if going to Bali Island. 

Bali Travel Guide - Bali Island is famous for having many beaches which are not exhausted to visit. For most tourists in the world, the beach is the best place to enjoy the sunset. One of the best spots in Bali to enjoy the sunset on the seashore is La Plancha.

La Plancha is a restaurant and bar located on Mesari Beach Street that is an area of Seminyak which is not far from Kuta Beach. There are many access roads to this place, you can go around the edge of Seminyak Beach to more easily find La Plancha because it is on the seashore. You can get to this place about 20 minutes from Kuta Beach.

La Plancha is very busy visited by tourists both domestic and foreign around the afternoon at 4 to 6 pm because many people who want to enjoy the sunset in this place. Although La Plancha is crowded in the afternoon, but it is open from 8 am to 1 am in the morning. For those of you who plan to enjoy the sunset at this place should come at around 3 pm so as not to run out of seats.

La Plancha is a unique restaurant and bar with colorful concepts. Parts of the building are made of wood that is painted in multicolor. There is plenty of seating options provided among others inside the restaurant, at the top of the 2nd floor or on the beach in the sand filled with lots of colorful bean bags as seating and there are colorful umbrellas as a complement. So you can enjoy the sunset by relaxing while lying on bean bags on the beach with soft sand.

La Plancha's food menu is mostly Spanish and western cuisine because the owner of this restaurant comes from Spain. The price offered was not too expensive about 30,000 - 80,000 rupiah. Most tourists who visit this place order pizza, potatoes and beer as a complement to enjoy the sunset.

For those of you who have already gone to this place but run out of seats, you can also try a place that has a concept almost the same as La Plancha and they are located very close called The Champlung Bar and Restaurant. Around La Plancha, there are also many lodging or hotels with prices ranging from 300.000 rupiahs because the location of La Plancha is a tourist area of Kuta Seminyak. 

Bali Travel Guide - Bali Island is famous both nationally and internationally with its nickname as the island of a thousand temples. Pura is very identical with the worship of Hindus, this is what makes Bali island became one of the world's tourist attraction. In addition, the location of this temples are also have the beauty of its own place and one of them is Taman Ayun Temple.

Taman Ayun Temple is a historic sights of the local royal heritage that has the beauty of the layout of the building. Originally the temple was built in 1643 as the place of the king's resting and a place to honor fighters who died on the battlefield. Taman Ayun Temple area is surrounded by a large lake almost about 1 hectare, the located of the temple is located in the middle of the lake and surrounded also by the park. Taman Ayun Temple is visited by many domestic and foreign tourists, it can be seen by the many buses that are in this place every day.

Taman Ayun Temple has 3 areas inside it, the first and second area contains a park and a place to rest like a large hut. There is a 10 meter long bridge as the main entrance of the temple area. In addition there are also many statues of gods and relief royal relics. This area is commonly used as a meeting place or art show. The third most important area is a sacred area containing many temples where local resident who are Hindus do worship. The park inside the temple area is very neat and kept clean. The beautiful garden and the location in the middle of the lake used by many tourists to take pictures.

Location of Taman Ayun Temple is located in Mengwi Village Badung Regency with distance of 20 kilometers from international airport of I Gusti Ngurah Rai Bali and about 1 hour trip time. For those of you who want to visit Taman Ayun Temple in my opinion do not need to stay because the distance is near from airport or city of Denpasar. There are several cafes and restaurants around this parking area and there are also many artshop selling various handicrafts.