Bali Island

Bali Island is an exotic paradise, a tropical island known for its majestic volcanoes, spectacularly terraced rice crops, especially for its complex culture and traditions preserved for thousands of years. Bali houses many ceremonies and festivals, and from the sightseeings there are remarked the Pura temple, Tanah Lot temple, Tirzah Empul, beach Kuta. Bali Island belongs to Indonesia and is famous for the beauty of tropical beaches and volcanic, with huge palm trees and flowers, its original art making the whole landscape through sculpture, painting, dance and ceremonies dedicated to the gods. Bali combines the image of a tropical island with sun, sand and sea.

The Bali Island is located between Java, Sumatra and Lombok  and became one of the largest tourist attractions in the world.The capital of Bali Island is in Dempasar.

Bali is considered a small island with 140 km length and about 80 kilometers in width. It has a mountainous relief, and here it can be found the Agung volcano which is located to a height of 3142 meters. Because of the relief, the irrigation are naturala and most are in the form of waterfalls which greatly help to the cultivation of cereals, especially rice.
The little Island is surrounded by the Indian Ocean to the South, Java Sea in the north, and by the Bali Straits in the west, which makes the connection between Bali and Java Island.

Because in Indonesia there are spoken more than 300 different languages, the island’s official language is Bahasa Indonesia which is taught even in school, but the older only speak Balinese language, which is completely different to the official one.

Other interesting things come more from tradition and faith, for example Keris is a dagger with great spiritual value which is known to have magic powers. Its making requires a lot of attention every year it needs to be clean, embalmed in a specific ritual.