Travel and Tourism

When selecting a romantic summer vacation destination, you will need to consider what romance means to you.  For many individuals, there are certain activities, settings, or events that may ruin the mood. To find the perfect romantic getaway destination, you are encouraged to examine what you need and want to get out of your trip. 

If you are looking for a romantic vacation that offers a beautiful tropical climate, you are encouraged to examine Barbados.  Barbados is an island located in the Atlantic Ocean. It is an eastern Caribbean island.  Barbados is well-known for its amazing coastal vacations.  These coastal vacations are ideal for romantic summer vacations.  In addition to its beautiful coast, Barbados has a collection of unique shops, restaurants, and entertainment venues. 

Tahiti is often referred to as “the most beautiful island in the world.”  Located in the Pacific Ocean, just below the Equator, Tahiti offers romantic summer vacation getaways like no other.  The environment in Tahiti is almost always warm, inviting, and romantic.  With a large number of romantic resorts, restaurants, and themed activities just for couples, you are sure to enjoy a romantic getaway in Tahiti. 

The Pocono Mountains, located in Pennsylvania, is another popular summer vacation destination for couples looking to escape their daily activities.  Pocono resorts are most often known for their wintertime activities; however, the resorts are open all year long.  While the temperature may not be tropical, Pocono resorts are ideal for those looking for privacy. 

Similar to the, above mentioned, Pocono resorts, Paris, France is not considered a tropical destination.  Despite Paris’s weather variations, it is often considered one of the most romantic cities in the world.  Once you arrive in Paris, you will see that romance is in the air.  In addition to hotels with a romantic theme, you will find a number of amazing tourist attractions.  The Eiffel Tower is a place where many couples reconnect and reaffirm their love for each other. 

Tahiti, the Pocono’s, Paris, and Barbados are just a few of the many popular summer vacation destinations that are designed for lovers.  In addition to visiting a specific destination, you can schedule a romantic cruise.  A large number of popular cruise lines offer cruise ships that are designed specifically for couples.  Aboard a cruise ship you are likely to find a number of exciting, relaxing, and romantic activities.

Bali has a diverse tourism, they are natural tours, historical tours and cultural tours. Nature tourism, for example, include 47 tourism, such as the panorama in Kintamani, Kuta Beach, Legian, Sanur, Tanah Lot, Nusa Panida, Nusa Dua, Karang Asem, Lake Batur, Lake Bedugul, Sangieh Nature Reserve, West Bali National Park, and Garden Sea island of Menjangan. Meanwhile, cultural tour includes 83 tourism, such as a tour of art in Ubud, a site sacred Tanah Lot, Barong Ceremony in Jimbaran and the various of art galleries which now appear in several places on the island of Bali. Besides, there are many art workers in Bali like painters and sculptors.  Their painting and sculpture were very famous in the world.

Kintamani: Tourism Regions in Batur Area, located in Batur Village, Kintamani District, Regency of Bangli. The air temperature at noon is cool and cold enough at night.  Domestic and foreign countries tourist most visit to Batur at Chrismas Holiday, New Year, Idul Fitri and Hari Raya Galungan.

Kuta Beach: a place of tourism, located in the south of Denpasar, the capital of Bali, Indonesia. Kuta is located in Badung Regency. Kuta Beach also often referred to as sunset beach as the opponent of Sanur beach. This beach also has the waves that quite good for surfing especially for beginners.

Tanah Lot : Tanah Lot is a rock formation off the Indonesian island of Bali. It is home of a pilgrimage temple, the Pura Tanah Lot and a popular motif for tourists photography.  Tanah Lot means “Land in the Middle of the sea” in Balinese language. Located in Tabanan, about 20 km from Denpasar, the temple sits on a large offshore rock which has been shaped continuously over the years by the ocean tide.  The Tanah Lot temple was built and has been a part of Balinese mythology for centuries. The temple is one of seven sea temples around the Balinese coast. Each of the sea temples were established within eyesight of the next to form a chain along the south-western coast.

Upacara Barong (Barong Ceremony) : The ceremony, Mepajar, is the dance in the form of sacred dance that aims to maintain the purity, prosperity and harmony of people around the area. Before the Barong and Rangda Sidakarya Mepajar, shown first dance Telek and Jauk. Telek dance is dance that symbolizes beauty or softness someone. Jauk dance is dance depicts a giant who wander are.

Arts in Ubud: The most attraction in Ubud is the soul of art from the local community which is very strong. And it consistently producing in high quality and become a part of breath of life at local communities.  Seem, the art has been a talents, skills and natural ethics in natural community here.  Ranging from painting, sculpture, traditional dance and gamelan music.

Many more beautiful places in Bali… It’s true..Bali is Paradise...

A nation in Europe that makes amazed. There is a harmony which formed the beautiful miracle inside, between classic romanticist, natural preservation, and modernization flow. Harmony which is owned by a nation that started of revolution industry, UK.

The description of UK in general one can be found around Trafalgar Square.  The area which was became the center of London.  In this area, we can see the city with a permanence building that has been establish since hundreds years ago. Trafalgar square is located in the way Whitehall and the Mall. Trafalgar square was built for the battle Trafalgar (1805). In the war, the British-led Horatio Nelson won the battle against the French, led by Napoleon.  The Corinthia monument, National Gallery Museum and the Church of St Martin in-the-fields were become the most charmed of Trafalgar square.

From Trafalgar square, we will be surprised by the beautiful City of London in the southwest, toward the mall road. Buckingham Palace grandeur gate and Whitehall Palace became a magnet for the tourist’s eyes from close. Turnover guard troops in the field Whitehall Palace also became a tourist attraction.
Walking at The Mall road that ends at the Buckingham palace is a solitary odyssey. Precisely when walking around at St James Park which has a beautiful lake and inhabited by many kind of birds.  All tired feeling suddenly loss when witnessing multicolored flowers, trees with leaves that turn yellow in autumn and tourist intimacy with squirrel and various birds that inhabit the park.

Modernization in the UK does not grind typical city, this is the miracle. A modern nation which is harmony with nature. Wonderful …

In Tangkoko, Bitung, North Sulawesi Indonesia, we can find that biodiversity is extraordinary. This region has often visited by the scientist both from in and outside the country for the purpose of research, science, and education. Tangkoko is popular among the scientists of the world. Where this is Alfred Russel Wallace, a young naturalist from British had visited in 1850  awe-struck at Maleo (Macrocephalon Maleo) and babyrussa (Babyrousa babyrussa).

From the research in Indonesia during 1850-1860 about the distribution of animals, Wallace then recognize that the distribution of animals in two biogeografi region in India and Australian are very different.  He then divides the two groups of animals and draw a line east and west boundaries that until now known as the Wallace Line, starting from the strait between Kalimantan and Sulawesi continue to the south between Bali and Lombok.

Tangkoko reserve is one of the houses animals that are very important in Sulawesi. In the area of 8718 hectares was existence of 26 types of mammals, 180 birds and 15 reptiles and amphibian. Maleo and babyrussa are now difficult to find in Tangkoko, also with Anoa (Bubalus depresicornis). They were the endemic Sulawesi animals that have been suspected extinct due to hunting and wild habitat destruction. The other animals that can still be found in this area among Yaki, Tangkasi and Rangkong or Julang Sulawesi.

If the existence of this animals was extinct of course not only Indonesia but also the lost asset for the whole world …

Protected since 1991 for its fantastic reefs and mangroves and outstanding biodiversity. The waters of Bunaken National Marine Park are extremely deep, clear, refreshing in temperature (27 to 29 °C). Bunaken National Marine Park is home to some of the world’s best year-round snorkeling and scuba diving. Check out the Bunaken Island Group – Bunaken, manado Tua, Siladen, Montehage and Nain – each ringed in part by a pristine white-sand beach.

In shallow water just a few meters offshore lies a band of eye-catching reefs, while further out, in the 60 to 120 foot zone another band of coral reefs teams with all sizes of fish, brilliant in hues and decoration, swimming around you in dizzying numbers, almost bouncing off your wetsuit.

In the thousands of little nooks along the wall you will spy delicate pencil-thin blue-ribbon eels, clear and reddish-striped coral shrimp, lurking lobsters and scuttling crabs. In deeper waters will really get your heart started, as if it wasn’t hammering with adrenal jazz already.

Bunaken Marine Park has become an important example of how Sulawesi, and the rest of Indonesia, can work to protect its natural resources.

All visitors to the Bunaken National Park (divers and non-divers) are required to pay an entrance fee, in accordance with North Sulawesi Provincial Government Provincial Law Number 9/2002. The entrance fee for locals is Rp2,500 a day and for foreign visitors is Rp 50,000 per daily ticket (approximately US$6), or Rp 150,000 (approximately US$17) for a waterproof plastic entrance tag (can be attached to your diving gear) valid for the full calendar year.
Bunaken is about 45-60 minutes by boat from Manado. Most resorts will arrange transfers from the airport for their guests. Alternatively, a public boat leaves daily except Sunday at 2PM, or you can charter a boat anytime.

Manado is well connected with most Indonesian cities. Daily flights arrive from Jakarta and Surabaya in Java, Ujung Pandang in South Sulawesi, Denpasar in Bali, Balikpapan in Kalimantan as well as Sorong in Irian Jaya. Connecting flights from other cities fly usually via Jakarta or Ujung Pandang.

On the heels of announcing the prestigious 4th-annual, US-based international photo and video competition, wetpixel inline and divephotoguide.com  have once again organized a unique joint collaboration with a second international competition in association with DEEP Indonesia , Indonesia’s first-ever diving, adventure travel and water sports expo.
For three years now two international competitions associated with dive expos on opposite sides of the world have cooperated to establish a complementary series of categories and prizing opportunities. Read more…

New York. The Big Apple, a city that never sleeps, where Carrie Bradshaw (figures in the series Sex and the City) live and many more that can be something remember in this city. The location of the Statue of Liberty is, shopping in Times Square, visit the Empire State Building etc..

Philadelphia. A city that had been the first capital city in the U.S is the perfect place to watch the history of the Uncle Sam State, especially in Independence Hall,  the United States Mint’s (the place of making money coins United States) and the Liberty Bell.

Washington DC. Lincoln Memorial, Washington Memorial, Capitol Hill (Office of the U.S. senator), White House to the Kennedy Center and the Arlington Memorial, the rest place of the  U.S. President John F Kennedy, will be the interested history journey in US.

Miami. Miami is part of the East Coast America which very famous because of it’s beauty coast beach. Read more…

West Coast

• San Francisco. The length bridge of the Golden Gate Bridge which is the icon of this city will become the main destination can be visited.  And then, visiting the Fisherman Wharf to walk around by bay cruise to the island of Alcatraz, a legendaries prison which now be a museum.  San Fransisco has also a unique natural object in the Yosemite National Park and Lake Tahoe.

• Las Vegas. A city that always sparkling, this will give something different on the trip later, with the Grand Canyon Skywalk and also visited Indian Village at Grand Canyon West Rim at once. In the village, we can lunch served by local Indian tribe and see the 720 degree nature of the grand canyon and the Colorado River under the bridge feet and the glass bridge. Read more…

Steamed Train Museum Ambarawa located on the former railway station in Ambarawa (Willem I) built in 1873, about 40 km south of Semarang, the capital city of Central Java Province, on the main road to Yogyakarta. This museum is under supervised of Indonesia Railway Office and open 7 days a week from 8.00 up to 17.00 Western Indonesia Time. Its collection consist of railway station equipment and various locomotive. The oldest locomotive (C1140) was fabricated in Germany in 1891, while the youngest locomotive preserved here (CC5029) was made in Switzerland in 1928.

This museum also gives service for those who want to experience getting on steamed train from Ambarawa station to Bedono station. What make it interesting from this trip is the loco makes use burning teak wood to produce steam as the source of fuel and the route is winding up with rice field and traditional village views can be seen during the trip.
Further information on this Steamed Train Museum can be seen on Rob Dickinson’s International Steam Site at the address of

http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/steam/internat.htm

Batik Museum lies on 3 Jetayu Street, Pekalongan city, on the city square area, about 2 hour drive from Semarang, the capital city of Central Java Province to west or to Jakarta.

This museum makes use of the building used to be for the Dutch Government Treasurer in Pekalongan during the first part of XIX Century. The room that ever used for money saving is still exist and can be seen by museum visitors on request. Batik Museum in Pekalongan city can be seen as a realization of Indonesian eagerness to contribute a centre of cultural and economic activities in order to reach an international level in term of cultural diversity on one side and to give local people a lot of benefits in terms of economic value on the other side.

Being officially opened by Mr President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, on 12th of July 2006 it has 300 collections of various patterned batik cloths contributed by people all over Indonesia. These collections are displayed in two exhibition rooms: the T exhibition room displaying  batik Pekalongan patterned batik cloths and north coastal patterned batik cloths, and the L exhibition room displaying Nusantara batik cloths taken from other areas in Indonesia.

This museum is also completed with an administration room, a storage and conservation room, a meeting room and a Batik Art Shop where visitors can buy various kinds of souvenirs made of batik. There will be a library, and an information and data room in future.

Further information on Batik Museum in Pekalongan city can be seen in www.museumbatikpekalongan.dprin.go.id. Any contact to this museum can be got through by phone/fax 62 285 431698 or an email to museumbatik@dprin.go.id