The island of Bali has been called the Island of thousands temples but nowadays, Bali is not just teemed with temples but also with motorcycles. Motorcycles practically everywhere on this 5,500 square kilometer island. You can never out of sight and sound of this most popular means of transportation even though you are in the remotest place in the Bali. Moreover if you are in Denpasar, the capitol city of Bali, the streets are litteraly streams of motorcycles, the parking paces is packed with motorcycles, the curbs turn into lines of motorcycles, they are omnipresent in Bali.

As a means of transportation motorcycle in Bali is very useful and utilize by Balinese to its extreme limit. It is not unusual to see a family of four ride on a single motorcycle that is too small for two westerners, usually the father ride the motorcycles, mother sitting behind with a child and the second child sitting on the father lap, holding the handle bars. In Bali, motorcycle also replaced the function of truck; bags of cements, big bushel of grass, pigs, long bamboo pole, anything that westerner use a truck to carry can be carried on motorcycle in Bali.

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“As fast as paradise seduces tourist, tourist reduces paradise”, this sentence is not just a mere slogan but if we take look of what happen in Bali nowadays; it becomes truism. In the name for tourism development, big construction companies set up new villas, resorts, apartments and so on everyday. Many rice fields, forests, cliffs, gorges and every place that provides stunning view are converted into villas, resorts, apartment or other establishments, changing not just the environment but also Balinese way of life.

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Location
The Suites is only a 20-minute drive from Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar. The airport is served by a number of international airlines, including Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, Continental Micronesia, EVA Air, Garuda Indonesia, Japan Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Royal Brunei, Singapore Airlines and Thai International.

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Here is an interesting excerpt about gender in Balinese society taken from an article written by Ana Dragojlovic entitled Performing Balinese Femininity in Migration. Without further ado here is the excerpt

The scholarship on gender in Bali is one which presents Bali not only as a gender-segregated society but as largely patriarchal. The extreme gender differentiation is obvious in rituals and symbolic activities. While men and women work together and women participate in many forms of economic production with men, that cannot be translated as gender equality as the tasks in their work are often hierarchically ordered, such that women’s work is often valued lower. Nakatani asserts that the Indonesian government characterises the woman’s role as both productive and reproductive but emphasises that motherhood and wifehood should come first. Strong gender segregation is obvious in the ritual sphere in which most of the offering preparation is done at home by women. Women also have a key role in making offerings for public activities such as Nyepi (Balinese New Year), Galungan and Hari Kuningan and the odalan (anniversary) in each of the desa adat temples in the course of the Balinese 210-day year. However, while women’s contribution to the ceremonies is quite substantial, Balinese Hinduism associates female fertility with pollution, and menstruating women are not permitted to enter the temple or participate in the rituals.

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The Santosa Villas & Resort is the new brand of hotel in East Indonesia, located at Senggigi-Lombok. After the re-branding, The Santosa Villas & Resort re-born with the new image and concept. We are more than happy to welcome you at our Simple, Fun and Trustworthy Hospitality.

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The island of Lombok, which lies next to Bali, is not just blessed with beautiful beaches and unspoiled natural panoramas but also rich in traditional culture; and the most popular icon of Lombok’s culture (even the icon of Lombok) is Sasak’s traditional house. A visit to the island of Lombok is incomplete without seeing the Sasak’s traditional house; and one of the best places to see Sasak’s traditional house is in Sade Village, a Sasak traditional village.

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