Bali Paradise Driver

Badung traditional market is the largest market of Denpasar and the oldest established in the city. Is good value for review of what available in Bali in the way of local handicrafts, imported textiles and clothes and all kind of natural produce.

Located in Gajah Mada street at the opposite of village temple become shopping centre for Balinese On the other side of the river is Kumbasari market, an array of small shop selling handicraft, textiles, and ceremony items.

Kumbasari market is previously called Peken Payuk ( pottery market ) a market which selling kitchenware made of soil, such as Paso ( pail made by soil ), Caratan  (water jag ), kekeb ( rice cover ) and so on

Sanur has an entirely different character to both of its neighboring resort, Kuta and Nusa Dua. We could say it fill the middle ground. It is not really a town at all,more a string of hotels, the best of which front onto the sea.  But unlike Nusa Dua  which had no life before tourism.

Sanur is community with cohesion. Sanur is much smaller, more restrained, and prettier than Kuta. The beauty of Sanur lies in the leafy garden compounds of the hotel themselves, and the white sand beach with views over a coral lagoon to Mt Agung across the bay. And Sanur offers spectacular sunrises Museum Le Mayeur ,  situated at the northern part of Sanur.

This was where A.J.Le Mayeur de Merpres, a Belgian painter, choose to build a home in the 1930s. he had come to Bali in 1932 at the age of 52 and like so many artists, writers, musicians and others, become totally ennamoured. He
met a beautiful and celebrated legong dancer called Ni Polok and began to paint portraits of her.

And in 1935 they married. He leased a plot of land in an isolated spot on the beach in Sanur  and began building a house, Balinese style. His paintings especially of the beautiful Ni Polok baring her breast in traditional Balinese manner, found an eager market abroad and establish Le Mayeur reputation. As time went by he collected pieces of antique architectural carving in stone and wood from all over island, restoring them and subsequently incorporating them in the  construction of the house.

They lived here until 1958, when they went back to Belgium so he could be treated for the cancer, he died that same year. sadly the marriage produce no children, so Le Mayeur made over the house the
Indonesian government, which hold it in trust to be maintained in perpetuity as a museum.

Nusa dua tourist resort has a style all of its own, stuck out on the eastern tip of Bali’s southern most peninsula, it is a kind of five star park, like a beautiful ghetto of romantic palm trees, swimming pool, and endless hotel corridor.

A never- never land where no one really lives, cock don’t crow traffic doesn’t screech and emit fume, and no one is
allowed to hassle you to by something you don’t want .

it is not, in other word, the slightest bit like the rest of Bali. If this is you after its perfect. You have all of Bali advantages of wonderful climate, long white sand beaches, luxury hotels, luxuriant tropical vegetation  and none of the awkward problems that staying in such a different culture can pose and also conveniently near the airport

Located at the most western tip of the Bukit, temple Uluwatu is one of Bali most important temple. Its location is dramatic, perched on the edge of a high cliff, best to see at the sunset time. Some say it was first use as a place of worship in the early 11th century at the time of Empu Kuturan  who came to Bali from Java to teach Hindu religion.

But the temple also honours  the doctrine of holyman Danghyang Nirartha, who came at a later date around 1550. It is said that danghyang Nirartha spent his last day here, where he achieved Moksa, the moment of enlightenment and
the release of the soul. Its realy its location make the temple so special. The views up and down of the rocky coast are spectacular , with the distance heave of the sea far below and the scent of frangipani blossom mix with  the warm salt air. this also home to small band of
friendly monkeys

The village of Jimbaran is on the western side of the neck of the land connecting the hill with the mainland. just south of the airport.

The beach is lovely, one of the best in Bali a broad sweep of white sand peaceful and clean.  it was a fisherman village which now famous for fresh seafood restaurants offer romantic candle light dinner with the table set on the sand almost at the water edge and the view of the bay with its sunset is spectacular

Kuta is Bali most famous tourist destination. The long sweep of white sand around Kuta’s  picturesque bay with facilities cater around.

Once it was a poor fishing community with a history of slave port and a colony for exile .then came the westerners, a trickle at first in the late 1960s, swelling to a flood in the 1970s. they came in search not for a trade, as mads lange once had established trading station, nor a culture, but sybaritic pleasures of empty beaches, sun, unlicensed freedom to pursue their own lifestyle,cheap food and accommodation.
Kuta just grew and grew.

To day it is an exciting, vibrant, noisy, infuriating mixture of asian and western cultures . the hotels and restaurants are ever  more sophisticated, catering for increasingly discriminating demans,while the shop are amazing in their variety .Kuta is one of the best place to see the sunset in all its glory

Beautiful holy spring temple ,a stone inscription found near by the state sthat Tirta Empul bathing place was built by king Chandrabhayasingha ( a ruler of the kingdom base in Pejeng ) in year 962 AD. The temple and the Bathing place value by people because the water from the spring believed has healing power.

There is a myth concerning the origin of Tirta Empul which is related in the ancient chronicle theUsana Bali. Demon king of Bedulu Mayadenawa having provoked the god by his attempts to disrupt the ceremony of
dedication of the temple at Besakih, was pursued by Indra and his heavenly army ,mayadenawa after putting up fierce resistance was eventually sent packing but as he fled he use his magical powers to create a river of poisoned water which kill a number of Indra’s men. Indra in his turn created Tirta Empul, a spring of sacred, healing water which revived his ailing troops.

Mayadenawa than change him shelf into a cock than into some rice and lastly into the rock in order to evade his pursuers. Indra however manage to finish him by firing an arrow into the rock and the evil king dead.