Malimbu Love Bridge

' 3 Gili's to be background "

Lombok island is a unique island, Lombok island has a lot of the nature tourism object and a man made tourism object such as Mayura Water Palace, Suranadi Temple, Narmada Summer Palace, Lingsar Temple, Banyumulek village, Sade Village and many more.

" Malimbu Hill "

Lombok island also has a unique tourism object like Malimbu Love Bridge or the Blue Bridge of Malimbu. Malimbu bridge is The specially thing you can do in this place  there is you can take a photo with 3 main gili's ( Gili Trawangan, Gili Air, Gili Meno ) to be your background in your photo's. In This bridge you also can having a fresh coconut.

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Meru Temple

" Meru Temple "

Meru temple is located in Mataram city , This temple is close to Mayura Water Palace, Meru Temple was build by Anak Agung Gede Ngurah Karangasem on 1720. Meru templ eis holding to the biggest temple in Lombok island. The building is quite unique , the temple storied roof, and this temple was build by 33 village in Lombok.

"Meru Gate"

Meru temple divide the area with 3 part, there are Utama Mandala, Madya Mandala and Nista Mandala, every part be divided by a big wall ( Brick wall ) and Balinese Wooden Door with Balinese engrave. From the three parts of the temple, the most sacred temple is Utama Mandala. This is the part where the Hindu people do their prayer. Inside, you will find 33 white sanggah. Sanggah are the symbol of 33 villages that participated to help Anak Agung Made Karangasem to build the villages. You can also find three merus rise to the sky. If you see carefully, you will find one meru has 11 stories and two meru with nine stories. The meru symbolize the major gods in Hindu religion: Brahma god (The Creator), Wisnu god (The Custodian), Siwa (The Fuser). Not only that, you can also find sekepat (a kind of gazebo with four pillars) that is usually used as Ida Pedande to lead a ceremony. In front of the sekepat, you will find sake ulu (gazebo with eight pillars) that is used as ritual offering and banten place in every religious ceremony.

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Mayura Water Palace

" Jagatnatha Temple "

Mayura Water Palace is located in Mataram city, Mayura Water Palace was build by Anak Agung Gede Ngurah Karangasem on 1744. On 1894 in this Water Palace held a war or fighting between Dutch and Hindus People.  Mayura Water Palace has 3 part of building , there are Jaba Tengah, Jaba Sisi and Wantilan.

" Bale Kambang "

Mayura Water Palace has a big pool but it's not a swimming pool , it's a fisihing pool. The area of this pool around 25 Meters x 50 Meters. Mayura Water Palace has a floating building, the local people called Bale Kambang. Bale means House and Kambang means floating on the water. Long time ago the function of Bale Kambang is for held a court. Bale Kambang just had one building, the area around 5 Meters x 5 Meters. Bale Kambang also had a one way to Bale Kambang and a gate to Bale Kambang.

" Gate to Bale Kambang "

In the Mayura Water Palace area also has a temple, the names of the temple is Jagatnatha temple. Jagatnatha temple has a lot of building there are Padmasana, Temple simbolize of Rinjani Mount, Bale Kulkul, Ngerurah, Bale Gong, Bale Pawedaan, Bale Pewaregan, and many more.  

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Lingsar Temple

     

" Lingsar Temple "

Lingsar Temple is oldest temple in Lombok Island. Lingsar Temple was located in Lingsar village, Lingsar Temple was build by Anak Agung Gede Ngurah Karang Asem on 1774. Lingsar Temple is the combination temple with Hindu religion and Islam religion, but it's has a different with normally Islam. The islam people is have a line of religion , the local people called Waktu Telu. The Islam people in Lingsar Temple area has 3 ( Three ) time to take a pray same like Hindu's people at 06.00 AM, 12.00 PM, 06.00 PM. Hindus people and Islam help each other to manage and mantain it, even Lingsar Temple has a big ceremony one a year. That there is harmony between us.         

         

" Ketupat War "

Lingsar temple has 3 part of building the first is Gaduh Temple, Kemalik Temple and Pesiraman Temple, Lingsar Temple also held a ceremony, if you want to see Ketupat "war" please come to Lingsar temple in they held a ceremony between November or December. The word war it's mean not the generally war but in this war used Ketupat. Ketupat will be a weapon in this war. Ketupat is a traditional food from Lombok island. Ketupat is a rice boiled but the rice is covered by coconut leaf before. The meaning of this war is to say thank you to the God for they life, food, and incame.The war is start around 4 - 5 PM. The Hindu's people stand on Kemalik temple and the Islam people stand in the out side of kemalik Temple. Thsi war held on a year at the same time of ceremony in Lingsar Temple.

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Dream Beach

Dream Beach , Nusa Lembongan

Dream beach located in Nusa Lembongan island. In this place its very good place for surfing because Dream beach has big wave for surfing. Dream beach also has beautiful view and nice panorama. We can enjoying the panorama in shoreline of Dream Beach. In the shoreline has many cafe, we can drink some beer or the other drink at Dream Beach. If you want to Dream Beach we can rent a bike at Nusa Lembongan harbor. In Nusa lembongan there is no traffic light and no traffic jam but the road in Nusa Lembongan is like in the sea, it means the road its not so good, not like in Bali island

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Ngaben

Ngaben or Cremation ceremony,  is the ritual performed in Bali to send the deceased to the next life. The body of the deceased will be placed as if sleeping, and the family will continue to treat the deceased as sleeping. No tears are shed, because the deceased is only temporarily not present and will reincarnate or find his final rest in Moksha (freeing from the reincarnation and death cycle).

The proper day of the ceremony is always a matter of consulting a specialist on ceremony days. On the day of the ceremony, the body of the deceased is placed inside a coffin. This coffin is placed inside a sarcophagus resembling a buffalo (Lembu) or in a temple structure (Wadah) made of paper and wood. The buffalo or temple structure will be carried to the cremation site in a procession. The procession is not walking in a straight line. This is to confuse bad spirits and keep them away from the deceased.

The climax of Ngaben is the burning of the whole structure, together with the body of the deceased. The fire is necessary to free the spirit from the body and enable reincarnation.

Ngaben is not always immediately performed. For higher caste members it is normal to perform the ritual within 3 days. For lower caste members the deceased are buried first and later, often in a group ceremony for the whole village, cremated.

recording to the area of Ngaben ceremony, In other part of Bali island has many different ceremony rules, like sanur and klungkung, in this area have different style. but not just in this area, some part of lombok island also do the Ngaben Ceremony, because there are a lot of balinese stay in Lombok Island. Some of this people from Bali island such us from Karang Asem , Klungkung and many more.

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Gili Trawangan

Gili Trawangan as seen from Gili Meno.

Gili Trawangan is the largest of Lombok's Gili Islands and the only one to rise significantly above sea level. Measuring 3 km long and 2 km wide, it has a population of around 700.[citation needed] Trawangan means Terowongan (Tunnel) due to there is a cave tunnel built in Japanese occupation. Of the Gilis, Trawangan has the most tourist facilities; the pub Tîr na Nôg claims that Trawangan is the smallest island in the world with an Irish pub. The most crowded part of Trawangan lies on the eastern side. It was previously administered under Lombok Barat Regency along with Senggigi until 2010 when the Gili islands came under the jurisdiction of the new North Lombok Regency (Kabupaten Lombok Utara)).

On Gili Trawangan (as well as the other two Gilis), there are no motorized vehicles. The main means of transportation are bicycles (rented by locals to tourists) and cidomo (a small horsedrawn carriage). For traveling to and from each of the Gilis, locals usually use motorized boats and speedboats.

Some of the first inhabitants of Gili Trawangan were from Sulawesi who are fishermen and farmers. Previously Gili Trawangan was covered in forest and deer lived on the island. (Source: Inhabitants of Gili Trawangan — no printed source available[verification needed])

The economy of Gili Trawangan centres on tourism, as the island is too small to support any broad scale agriculture, and too remote to allow economically viable industry or commerce.

Be very careful with locally produced booze, especially arak. It can contain methanol and has caused many cases of serious injury and even death among tourists and locals alike

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