Selasa, 26 Januari 2010
Try Some Balinese Food And Some other Indonesian Food
Try Some Balinese Food
Nasi Campur Bali – Different than “Java” nasi campur with all the Balinese favorites. Usually different in each restaurant
Babi Guling – Suckling pig roasted on a spit, stuffed with herbs, spices, chillies and ice
Bebek Betutu – Duck roasted in an earthernware oven
Sambal Be Tongkol – Tuna salad
Sate Lilit – Minced seafood satay
Bubur Injin – Coconut rice-pudding with fruit
Try Some Indonesian Food
Ayam Goreng – Fried chicken
Ayam Bakar – Grilled chicken
Cap Cay (pronounced chap chai) – stir fried vegetables
Nasi Goreng – Fried rice with vegetables, chicken, pork of beef.
Usually served with prawn crackers and a fried egg.
Mie Goreng – like nasi goreng, but using noodles instead of rice
Sate – Beef or chicken on a stick served with a peanut and sweet soy sauce
Gado-gado – An assortment of parboiled and fresh vegetables with a peanut sauce
Nasi campur – Meat, vegetables, tofu, tempe, etc. served with rice. The most common meal in Indonesia. Usually served ‘Java’ style
Rujak – A spicy, sweet fruit salad, served cold
A River Runs Through It, Bangkok
At : Bali Advertiser, Sept 30th 2006
Every time I go to Bangkok, I get a dreamy longing to live in a house on a canal, my boat tucked out of the weather under a falling down pear. Even the meanest waterside shed sparks envy, although I appreciate, too, the mensions and trim gardens behind personal stone quays.
“How much for that water-logged palace there? I want to ask someone. Surely something can be done to keep the house from sinking into the mire. I get the same sort of urge when I see the Missisipi. I want to live on a houseboat lazily, a couple af trotlines over the side.
There is no getting around it, you,ve got to see the river from the river to get any flavor of old Bangkok, but you can feel a bit of and idiot sitting three to a long-tail boat made for twenty, especislly when your boatman keeps pointing out the most ordinary sights. Ours kept pulling into the concrete banks and shouting about anything up in trees…a mango, a jackfruit, a durian. Maybe he was mad, which at least would have added some colour.
Nonetheless, the tours are the easiest thing to latch onto when you’ve a family in tow. Save for another time prowling around for unemployed waterman. We booked our boat at the Shapan Taksin Skytrain Station at a booth at the head of the stairs going down to the Sathorn Pier – price per person, 750 Thai baht. It probably doesn’t matter where you book; they’ll take you on the same loop of canal on the thonburi side of The Chao Praya River.
Five years ago I booked a canal tour from a different pier and had the same two hour-run, turning off the river at the Royal Navy headquarters and the old fort, meandering around in the back canals for an hour and then coming out by the sheds of The Royal Barge Museum, Possibly the same two old ladies in skiffs pulled up the excact same point to sell cold drinks and trinkets.
The more economical and practical way to see the river is to jump on the commuter boats that stop at almost every pier along the river. Before the Skytrain and MRT they were the fastest way to get anywhere in traffic-clogged Bangkok, and they still are the most enjoyable. We hopped on again at Sathron Pier outside the Saphan Taksin Skytrain Station – the only intersection of the old and new transport systems – and rode to the other end of the commuter boat line at Nonthaburi, on the outskirts of the northern Bangkok. Compared with what we paid for the canal tour, the 11-13 THB we paid for a one-way ticket was a steal. Don’t fall for paying the 100 THB for a one-day pass on the Express Boat for tourists. It’s no more economical than the 100-THB day pass on the trains, and you’ll have more fun for less on the boats everyone else rides.
Nonthaburi, at the end of the line from Sathorn, is a small market town famous for it durian. If you’ve only got a few days in Thailand on a visa run, it’ll give you a chance to see something besides Bangkok. The hour-and-a-half ride from The Sathorn Pier is almost always eventful. Our river run was interrupted by practices for the barge procession in honor of The King’s anniversary on the throne, and it was fun to watch the life along and in the river.
Old Bangkok hands will ridicule me for not taking the commuter boats still running through the remnants of the old canal system, but have they ever ridden with a mad Thai gondolier?

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Introduction to Lombok and Sumbawa

Lombok and Sumbawa, the two main islands of West Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Refers to the islands east of
The countryside is ideal for trekking anf for those with adventurous spirit. Lombok has
Lombok and
HOW TO GET THERE
Air
Garuda, Merpati and Lion Air all have regular flights to Mataram from
Silk Air has regular flights direct from
Merpati, Wings Air (Lion Air) and GT Air fly eight times a day from Denpasar to Mataram, and as well Merpati offers regular services from Denpasar and Mataram to Sumbawa Besar and Bima. Also GT Air flies four times a week to Labuan Bajo (Flores) linking
Tropical Airstrip (Merpati aircraft) can fly charter from Denpasar and via Mataram to Sekongkang in south-west
Pelita Air flies three times a week to Bima from
Travira Air flies from Denpasar and via Mataram to Benete in south-west
Land
Take a car or bus from Denpasar or Padangbai and from there by ferry to Lembar in
Boat
Drive-on ferries operate regularly from Padangbai in Bali to Lembar in
Perama Tours offers travel from Padangbai to Senggigi and the Gilis daily
It is sometimes possible to hire a boat from Labuhan Haji or Tanjung Luar in south-east
Pelni, the regional coastal shipping line, has some ship that travel regularly between the islands and provinces, completing a ring route including Lembar and Bima.
Rinjani Express plans to travels between Teluk Nare (near Bangsal) and Benoa (
The peak tourist season is between mid-June and mid September and again over the Christmast and New Year season.
The rainy season lasts between October until March and the dry season between April until September. The temperature is around 21° to 33° centigrade.
1. LOCATION
West Nusa Tenggara is one of thirty two provinces of the
West Nusa Tenggara consists of Lombok and Sumbawa islands and several smaller islands (called ‘gili’ or ‘pulau’): Air, Meno, Trawangan, Tangkong, Nanggu, Gede, Lampu in Lombok and Moyo, Bungin, Satonda, Panjang, Liang, Nisa Pudu and Sangeang in
The province is located strategically within the ‘golden triangle’ of Indonesian destination areas : East Nusa Tenggara (Komodo island), Bali and Toraja (in
2. LAND
West Nusa Tenggara consist of an area of 20,153 km². For the most part, the province is mountainous and hilly with low and high plains from Ampenan in the western part of
The length of
The highest peak on Lombok is Mt Rinjani, with a height of 3,726
The highest peak on
Since the stream of water from the mountains is general leads directly to the nearest coast in the north and south, there are very few long and big rivers to be found. Such rivers are the Jangkok, Dodokan and Babakan in Lombok and Rhe, Rora and Sari in
Hydrological research in Nusa Tenggara shows that water supply in Nusa Tenggara is highly dependent on underground water reserves. The water catchment area in this region is very limited (less than 100 square kilometers), and the rivers are short and narrow flowing in deep inclines. This causes fast floods during events of heavy rain, while in the dry season the water supply is limited.
3. CLIMATE
The climate of West Nusa Tenggara is in general similar to other areas with a tropical climate in
4. ENVIRONMENT
Marine ecology is important because of the coral reefs with sea grasses and seaweeds vegetation. Indonesian coral reefs are found in the Nusa Tenggara region. These coral reefs could potentially support the development of tourism, fisheries, and pharmaceutical products in the future. There are many varietes of sea grasses and seaweeds found around the islands in Nusa Tenggara. Apart from providing potential harvesting production, they importantly function as sediment-collectors and barriers to avoid coastal abration.
Along the coast mangrove forests function as habitat areas for various marine organism and protect to coastline from abrasion and strong-winds. Because of it’s location at the intersection of two different bioregions, The Nusa Tenggara Archipelago has a great number of unique species.
With the seasonal nature of the monsoon, the vegetation of Nusa Tenggara is influenced more by distribution of the rainfall in one year rather than by the total annual rainfall.
Nusa Tenggara forests range from tropical rainforests, which are always green to monsoon forests, which are very dry and vulnerable. There are not many stable primary forests of significant size left in Nusa Tenggara as they have been influenced by physical and bio-geographic limitations, and excessive and illegal logging. Original monsoon forests in dryer areas of Nusa Tenggara have now mostly changed to savannah and grass meadows.
Efforts are being made to avoid significant degradation of the environment in Nusa Tenggara, both because of natural disasters and human mismanagement. Dry seasonal climate, poor soil conditions, and inappropriorate land use and soil management practices have resulted in widespread soil erotion and degradation of soil fertility.
There is concern over coastal and marine ecosystem, including the equality and coral reef mining and fishing practices. In addition, one problem that has attracted the attention of many people is the illegal trade of endemic species of fauna such as punglor bird, komodo, and yellow crested cockatoos, because these practices threten the survival of these species.
5. FLORA AND FAUNA
The fictive ‘Wallace Line’ which separates Asia from
In West Nusa Tenggara there are several types of animals spread out over the area according to climatic and natural conditions. While animals found in West Nusa Tenggara are wild pigs (babi hutan), small deer (menjangan), deer (kijang rusa), iguanas (biawak) porcupines (landak), turtles (penyu) and many kinds of poisonus snakes. Many kinds of birds are found here including pring, parrots (kakatua), bering, koak-kaok, cucak rawa etc.