Sunday, October 24, 2010

ELEPHANT SAFARI PARK - BALI

Welcome to the popular adventures in Bali Island, the Elephant Ride and Attraction with the marvelous and the impression adventure by taking a ride on elephant at the same time encircle the Bali nature makes your holiday in Bali full of memory. This adventure is covering you to take a ride on the elephant and see the humorous elephant attraction in Bali which you earn to experience in two different places that we serve to you as adventure choice. The Elephant Safari Park at Taro and Bali Elephant Camp are the choice elephant adventure company giving you the satisfaction with its excess as value added on your elephant adventure in paradise island of Bali.


Elephant Safari Park at Taro

The Elephant Safari Park
at Taro where you can experience hand feeding and petting these beautiful Pachyderms, take a Safari Ride atop a Sumatran Elephant through the Park and surrounding forest area. The first class facilities available in the Elephant Safari Park at Taro include, The Elephant Show performed in Bali's largest show arena, Museum, Gift Shop, 200 seats International Standard Restaurant. Take time out and relax while you stroll through the spectacular Botanical Gardens where you will find one of the largest collections of Orchids and Palm Trees in one place in Bali. You will feel like the king of the jungle on a unique 35 minutes unforgettable journey through tranquil forested area. Finish the safari with an exciting splash in the Park's bathing lake. Ali can offer you 2 venues to experience Elephants. The Elephant Safari Park at Taro with the international standard for animal care and Bali Elephant Camp.

This Tour is one you will not want to miss while on your holiday in Bali. The Elephant Safari ParkThe Elephant Safari Park at Taro is quite unique, as there is not another Elephant Park like this anywhere in the World.
has been acclaimed as “The Best Elephant Park in the World” by (Crocodile Hunter) Steve Irwin, many other world celebrities have visited the Park such as David Beckham & Posh Spice, Dolf Lungdren, Julian Lennon, Johnny Knoxville & Steve'O stars of the Jackass Movies plus many more.



Bali Elephant Camp

Bali Elephant Camp is situated between the rice paddies, jungle and the Ayung River where is the most natural places in Bali. Your adventures pass through unworldly beauty and natural rice paddies, quaint Balinese Villages, temple and local market on the scenic drive to Bali Elephant Camp that is located in the historic village of Carangsari only a short distance from Sangeh Monkey Forest is a place of interest in Bali.

Bali Elephant Camp gives the scarce opportunity to experience the wonderful adventure ride the Sumatra's elephant in the Elephant Park beside of Ayung River in Ubud Bali. You will enjoy on the elephant ride encircle the Elephant Park and see the nature of Bali which is still natural give negotiable memory on your vacation in Bali Island. It is one of the spectacular elephant ride in Ubud will bring you to the exciting and fun experience ride.

KOMODO DRAGON NATIONAL PARK - NTB

Komodo dragon Island is only a 2 hr flight from Bali. Fly with us in the comfort of our luxury aircraft to a remote and unique part of Indonesia, and discover the magic of the Komodo Dragon.

Landing at Labuan Bajo airport, you then take a 30 minute boat trip to Rinca Island, followed by a 1.5 hour tour through the National Park guided by park rangers. Here you can see the dragons nearby and even walk amongst them. Lunch is served before heading back to Labuan Bajo by boat to meet the waiting aircraft for the flight back to Bali. Tour depart 07.00 am from Bali, and return at 18.00 pm.

Conservation

The island of Padar and part of Rincah have been established as nature reserves in 1938. Komodo Island has been declared a nature reserve in 1965, and in 1977 an UNESCO biosphere reserve. The three islands have been declared a national park in 1980, which was later extended to include the surrounding marine area and a section of Flores in 1984. In 1991 the national park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Since 1995, the national park authority has been supported by The Nature Conservancy (TNC), an American environmental organization. A new management plan was co-authored with TNC and implemented in 2000 to address the problem of increasing resource exploitation, both marine and terrestrial. Most pressure on marine resources originates from fishing communities and commercial enterprises from outside the park. However, regulations and restrictions on resource use impact mostly on park residents, who have few options to make a living but rely on what the park has to offer. The provision of alternative livelihoods is part of the overall management strategy, but communities within the park are yet to benefit from appropriate measures addressing their needs.

Komodo National Park has been selected as one of 28 finalists to become one of the New7Wonders of Nature.


Flora and Fauna

The hot and dry climate of the Park, characterized by Savannah vegetation, make it to a good habitat for the endemic Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis). Their populations are restricted to the islands of Komodo (1,700), Rinca (1,300), Gili montang (100), Gili Dasami (100), and Florest (ca. 2,000), while extinct on Padar.

Cloud forests appear only in few areas above 500 metres but they provide habitat to several endemic flora. Coastal vegetaion includes Mangrove forest, which generally appear in the sheltered bays of the three larger islands.

Fringing and patch coral reefs are extensive and best developed on the north-east coast of Komodo. The park is rich in marine life, including whale sharks, ocean sunfish, manta rays, eagle rays, pygmy seahorse, false pipefish, clown frogfish, nudibranchs, blue-ringed octopus, sponges, tunicates, and coral.


Human Habitation and Tourism
About 4,000 people live within the park. Scuba diving is popular because of the park's high marine biodiversity. The development of, largely marine-based, ecotourism is the main strategy to make the park self-financing and generate sufficient revenue through entrance fees and tourism licenses to cover operational and managerial costs. To this end, a joint venture between TNC and a tourism operator were granted a tourism concession, that also entails extensive park management rights. This concession has generated an ongoing controversy. The joint venture has been accused of making decisions behind closed doors, and many people in and around Komodo claim that they haven’t been consulted regarding decisions that ultimately affect their lives.

Most controversy, however, was caused by the death of several fishermen since the 1980s. The circumstances of the fishermen’s deaths are contested. While park patrol (including, at the time, police and navy personnel) claim they acted in self-defense, fishing communities accuse park management of having deliberately killed the fishermen.

DOLPHIN and SOUTH COAST BALI CRUISE

Experience High Speed Ocean Rafting Cruise along the coastline of Nusa Dua and Uluwatu to see the dolphins. Ocean Rafting, designed with the highest safety standards and equipped with 750hp, promises an exhilarating day of sightseeing. This program will departs at 7.30 am and returns at 9.30 am.


Offers a series of adventurous and pleasantly trip to Lembongan Island. Created to serve the ultimate trip to the island. Full of adventure, relaxation, and of course the trip will be conducted by our experienced seamen and instructors who will put your safety on the top list.

Lembongan Island is offering a lot of fun in the water, from frolicking in the warm water to the serious scuba diving to play with fish in the coral reef under the water.

SEAWALKER - SANUR ( BALI )

Enjoy the natural beauty under the sea can not be done only by scuba diving or diving. One of the best ways and are available in Bali today is Seawalker (Ocean Walker) or a walk on the seabed. This optional activity is very easy to do because it does not require swimming skills, do not have to bother carrying a heavy diving equipment, breathing like the outdoors, and wide-open opportunity for people with glazed eyes to do so. By following this adventure tour we are sure your holiday in Bali will be more memorable.

Seawalker tour are located in Sanur. Tour is perfect for my friend who likes to adventure under the sea and could see fish life and beautiful underwater plants. With Seawalker tour, my friend does not need to know how to swim or have a certificate as well as sport diving. Equipped with a special helmet and oxygen, my friend will be able to walk and breathe just like on land. Children can join the child shall be a participant.

Minimum age of participants was 9 years old. From the beautiful Sanur beach, my friend will be escorted to the pontoon in place penyelaman.Penyelaman Seawalker will last for 35 minutes. After enjoying the thrill of water attractions, the next time to enjoy lunch at the Hotel Puri Santrian. Sea Walker Sanur Tours is managed by Aqua Club and is the only seawalker in Indonesia.

BUNGY JUMPING - BALI

No Bali adventure is complete without a Bungy Jump from our magnificent tower. Hands down this jump spot is the most dramatic in the world. Situated inside the grounds of the famous Double Six Night Club. The 45m / 150ft tower was purpose built and includes an elevator to get to the top (so you can’t use the stairs as an excuse not to jump or check out the view!)

There are three options to jump, during the afternoon for amazing views out over the beaches and surf. Or sunset for the most picture perfect bungy photo you will ever get, or in the dark as you party away around the tower!


Attractions this sport is actually a tradition of Maori in New Zealand to test the courage of the youth who have turned adult with his legs tied to the twigs of trees and then plunged into the valley. From New Zealand's attractions are growing rapidly in Australia and then spread throughout the world including Indonesia with a more standard safety equipment modern. High places for sport Bungy jumping Jumping around 40 meters, generally of a tower / tower and underneath there is a pool at least as deep as 4 meters.

Attractions challenge is very popular with foreign tourists as well as some tourists both men and women to test the courage, but is not allowed for those who are pregnant, high blood pressure and those who have heart disease.



UNDERWATER TEMPLE - BULELENG ( BALI )

The existence of the building resembles a temple, but the actual temple garden on the sea floor impressions Bay area, Buleleng, North Bali, it was not a mystery.

Parks underwater temple or "underwater temple garden" which had horrendous Impressions world, is a third area of additional dives in the area Tangkad Jaran, impressions, which has also been known as one tourist attraction in Bali.

"That we wake up since 2005 in post-crisis following the second Bali bombing, with funding from AusAid," said Chris Brown, Coordinator Garderner impressions Reef, to the author after accompanying dive in the area.

Object dives that had excited as mysterious temple, including inviting the attention of the Director General of Marketing Depbudpar Nirwanda Sapta, located at a depth of 15-28 meters in the area of sea floor area of 2,500 square meters.

In the garden area of the sea conditions are arranged beautifully, with the temple briefly or Balinese gate model measuring four feet high and ten large-size stone statues.

According to Chris Brown, the structure of the temple briefly drowned in 2005 after Impressions ASEANTA awarded as a tourist area of environmental conservation.

In 2006, a number of stone statues were drowned as a complement to the underwater temple garden. "Coral reefs are capable of thriving in the media of stone concrete and rock, as you can see," he said.

According to Chris Brown who is also the owner of ReefSeen Dive Centre, impressions Bay naturally has a number of dives. However, climate change and lack of fishing communities to maintain those resources, resulting in coral reefs in impressions area were destroyed.

After the rehabilitation and conservation of coastal use system "biorock" successful, community and tourism industry players in impressions build a new dive site as a complement to existing objects.

Besides enriching the tourist product, the addition of these objects are also used as a place to practice in an effort to improve skills and performance of groups of sea gardener (reef garderner), amounting to 20 people in impressions.

The gardener of the sea, according to Chris Brown, in charge of maintaining the existence of structure "biorock" in impressions. They are also assisted by staff from each business tour around impressions.

Additional objects, he explained, a place that builds on the design dive impressions community. Objects placed along the region Tangkad Jaran dives, especially in areas that suffered damage to coral reefs.

Development of new dives object began in 2005 which received funding support from AusAID for 23,035 Australian dollars or the time equivalent of about Rp155, 87 million.

The first named Canyon Wreck location, at a depth of 28 meters, in the form of shipwrecks bugis 30 meters. Site second into the 25-14 meter named Ships Graveyard (graveyard ship.)

At that location bugis sized ship sunk 24 meters and nine other traditional boats. Ships Graveyard At dive sites also have been working two biowrecks structure.

One structure in the form of a wreck madura measuring nine meters. The other is a metal structure stenlis measuring 12 times the three-meter-shaped boat.

Bio Wreck is located at a depth of 70-10 meters and if biorock use electricity for the formation of reefs, bio-Wreck has been utilizing solar power (solar panels). "We also will divert biorock from the electricity grid system to the solar panels,"? Chris Brown added.


Diversity Object
Impressions Bay is located on the north coast of Bali and is about 115 kilometers from Denpasar via Bedugul, while from Gilimanuk, the western tip of Bali, about 40 kilometers. Mileage from Denpasar via Jembrana about 30 miles farther than via Bedugul.

Gulf since 1999 designated as protected areas (Marine Protected Area / MPA), it has long been popular by the presence Pulaki, which also attract many tourists, especially those visiting the northern region of Bali.

For foreign tourists, impressions biorock identical with, the iron structure of the electricity flowing and sunk to the seabed as FADs or where the growth of coral reefs.

If coral reefs thrive, fish also will be able to reproduce well, thus supporting one of the environmental conservation program, in addition to supporting tourism.

The structure of the first biorock drowned in October 2000 after the implementation of Konas in Bali on the cooperation of two coral reef expert Tom Wolf G and the late Gilbert with Gahawisri (Association of Tourism of the Republic of Indonesia), Bali.

It then continues as a coastal community empowerment program sponsored by AA Prana, Chris Brown and supported by local indigenous communities.

In the course of time, clear AA Prana, impressions not just enough to make the empowerment of coastal communities through programs biorock. impressions need to restore marine ecosystems are more intense.

The reason, tourists who holiday in impressions not only among spiritualist with the main purpose of the program Pulaki and healing (healing) in a number of temples around it.

Academics, researchers and divers from the marine ecosystem snorkel classes, beginner to expert (advance), also flocked to the Gulf region Pemuteran.

Therefore, as a destination impressions need enriched with additional tourism products. Whether at sea or on land.

Thus the presence of the tourism industry can provide more added value for the fishing communities, said Chris closes talks. amkan bugis sized vessels 24 meters and nine other traditional boats. Ships Graveyard At dive sites also have been working two biowrecks structure.

One structure in the form of a wreck madura measuring nine meters. The other is a metal structure stenlis measuring 12 times the three-meter-shaped boat.

Bio Wreck is located at a depth of 70-10 meters and if biorock use electricity for the formation of reefs, bio-Wreck has been utilizing solar power (solar panels). "We also will divert biorock from the electricity grid system to the solar panels,"? Chris Brown added.

Friday, October 15, 2010

KARIMUN JAVA

Karimunjawa is and island chain stretching in a northwesterly direction 83 km from Jepara. Central Java. This archipelago is a cluster of 27 islands in the java sea. Only seven of the islands are inhabited. The reefs are a mixture of fringing, barrier, and patch with bottom depths ranging from 15 to 40 meters. The name of Karimunjawa is taken from Javanese language 'Kremun kremun saking tanah Jawi' addressed by one of Wali Songo (the Nine Saints who had introduced Islam in Java) to describe how far this mini archipelago from Java, to be exact from Semarang and Jepara. Stands from 27 islands, this mini archipelago became marine national park and it's like a treasure for those who love marine life. Here can be found protected coral reefs (very colorful plateaus and plains in deep and shallow waters), secluded and tranquil white beaches, pelican and hornbill, sea grass and kinds of sea creatures, from crabs, anchovy, starfish, sharks, stingray, jellyfish, red snappers, etc.