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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