Beautiful Gili Islands near Bali

"Gili" is the local name, actually means “Small Island”. There are lots of other gili's around Lombok Island. Gili Islands featuring three coral fringed islands, namely Gili Air, Gili Meno, & Gili Trawangan. Each island is with superb, white sandy beaches, clear water, coral reefs, brilliantly colored fish, and the best snorkeling and diving on Lombok. Fishing is one of the highlight activities on the islands. Deep fishing remains the best on northwest of Gili Trawangan. Domestic visitors and foreigners are attracted to the simple pleasures of sun, snorkeling, beautiful beaches, and socializing.

On the islands visitors can rent snorkeling equipment, join a diving course, rent a kayak, go fishing, or take a glass bottom boat to see the magnificent coral reefs and fishes. There are lots of quality scuba diving operations on all the islands. The coral around the islands is good for snorkeling, which can be reached from the shore. While divers are able to regularly swim with black tip, those who prefer to just drifts in the currents with a snorkel, fins and mask are never left disappointed by the more than 6,000 species of marine life living just off-shore. On all the islands also available Dive Schools with many dive programs to choose, from beginners to advanced technical dives.

The absence of cars, motorcycles, and hawkers adds greatly to the leasure of staying on the Gilis.

Gili Islands located in the northwest of Lombok Island, Province of West Nusa Tenggara, Republic of Indonesia. Gili Islands is one of many popular tourist destinations in Indonesia.

Komodo Island – Habitat of Ancient Dragon

Komodo National Park was established to conserve the unique Komodo Dragon and protect its entire biodiversity, both terrestrial and marine. The islands of the national park are of volcanic origin. As well as being habitat of the largest known lizard, the world famous Komodo Dragon, Komodo National Park provides refuge for many other notable terrestrial species such as the orange-footed scrub fowl, an endemic rat, Sunda deer (Cervus timorensis), wild buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), wild boar (Sus scrofa), the macaque monkey (Macaca fascicularis), and wild horse (Equus qaballus).

Moreover, the Park includes one of the richest marine environments including coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, seamounts, and semi-enclosed bays. It consists of forams, cnidaria (includes over 260 species of reef building coral), sponges (70 species), ascidians, marine worms, mollusks, echinoderms, crustaceans, cartilaginous and bony fishes (over 1,000 species), sea turtles, and marine mammals (dolphins, whales, and dugongs). Some notable species with high commercial value include sea cucumbers (Holothuria), Napoleon wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), and groupers.

The under water live and its ecosystems have been well known as the best diving site in the world. The water of Komodo National Park is very ideal place for many kinds of sea activites. It's just like the missing paradise for the underwater world lover. It has many excellent dive spots. It's vibrant color and exotic life will enchant divers and snorkelers.

Komodo National Park includes three major islands: Komodo, Rinca and Padar, as well as numerous smaller islands creating a total surface area (marine and land) of 1817 km squares (603 km squares of it land). Most of the Park is dry, rugged and hilly, a combination of ancient volcanic eruptions and more recent tectonic uplift of sedimentary seabeds. The irregular coastline is indented with rocky headlands and sandy bays, many framed by soaring volcanic cliffs. Komodo island alone is 35km long and 15km wide, and is mountainous on a north to south axis, with an average altitude of 500-600m. The highest peak is Satalibo (735m) in the north. Most of the island is lontar palm savannah with remnates of rainforest and bamboo forest at higher elevations.

Komodo National Park lies on Lesser Sunda Islands (at a distance of 200 nautical miles to the east of Bali), Province of East Nusa Tenggara , Republic of Indonesia.

Nusa Dua – Bali’s Prestigious Beach

The most prestigious resort area, where the tourists will find international world class luxury hotels elegantly lining beautiful white sands in Bali Island, is Nusa Dua. Some of the most sumptuous and luxurious hotels in the world find their home in Nusa Dua, Bali. It is quiet and exclusive with superb facilities. Nusa Dua is really about taking it easy and relaxing in total luxury. As most of the hotels are 5 stars, every comfort is at our disposal as well as a gorgeous white sand beach. Nusa Dua was designed for the luxury conscious with a heavy concentration of big name hotels lining the beautiful white sand beach. Some of the resorts have private beaches but most areas are accessible.

Crystal clear water and stretches of white sandy beach of Nusa Dua makes Nusa Dua a perfect spot for luxurious resorts, after a Barong performance at Batubulan and a long climb of the steps of the Temple Besakih. Visitors can tee off into the sunset, while watching the gentle waves come from the blue sea and caress the banks surrounding the luscious greens. Tranquil swimming pools under the coconut trees seem to be one with the distant blue sea. Stroll to the northern end of Nusa Dua for parasailing, jet skis, snorkeling/diving trips or better still, head for Tanjung Benoa.

The other popular places around Nusa Dua are Turtle Island (Pulau Penyu) and Dreamland Beach. Turtle Island is a turtle conservation area. The local people keep the turtle eggs in each traditional conservation houses individually owned them until the baby turtles born, and they will release the turtles when they are grown. Besides turtle, they also have birds, snakes, bats, etc. By Penyu Island visitors can get on glass boats where they can see the under water view from the boat. Dreamland is a beautiful beach with excellent surfing conditions, especially for intermediate surfers, and on big days when other breaks are too big to surf.

Nusa Dua provides a venue for traditional entertainment including arts festivals like the Nusa Dua Arts and Culture Festival. Art galleries and numerous shops surround them.

Nusa Dua is located in the southern Bali approximately 10 km from Denpasar City, Bali Island, Republic of Indonesia.