Bali island is one of Indonesian 32 provinces, and it is by nature it looks separated from any other part of Indonesia, encircled by sea. Bali has been well known in tourism destination bibliography that the island is one of the most famous in the world due to its rituals, nature, and Balinese people themselves. Historically Bali has been an independence kingdom except between 1345 AD to 1550 AD was under the control of Majapahit kingdom of East Java. Bali has many destinations such as Kuta, Jimbaran Bay, Nusa Dua, Sanur, Ubud, Candidasa Lovina Beach, Pemuteran, and others where hotels and resorts have been developed very well to international standard. Other destinations such as North Sumatra which base is in Medan, West Sumatra with the base in Bukittinggi city, Yogyakarta with its famous Borobudur Buddhist temple and Hindu temple of Prambanan and the meticulous handicraft products. While Toraja Land known for its unique burial ceremony which last months with sparkling rituals and consumption of tremendous costs for the family having the dead. Tour organization to Toraja Land would involve the overnight stay at Makassar city, one of the biggest city in East Indonesia with the center of sea transportation as hub of east Indonesian trade. Lombok island is said as the sister island of Bali, as this island was under control of Balinese king in 17th to 18th century, and Balinese tradition of irrigation system, rituals were brought by the king to Lombok. So it is not strange today one can see house architecture of many families in the city of Cakra Negara, Mataram and surrounding villages exactly like the architecture of Balinese in Bali. Some interesting places also in the city of Mataram such as Narmada Royal bathing, Lingsar and Mayura Hindu Temple are the reflection of Balinese architecture and gardening. Following selected sites that offers great arrangement on various destinations on Indonesia and Bali in particular are listed. Please make sure you have a degree of confidence in getting information from each of the suggested sites listed here on. First you have to see who is behind the site if they inform you about their address profile and other identification that you can trust. A site that is trustable will see their legal address on the site that you can contact and verify by yourselves. There are plenty of online hotel reservation or any type of travel and tour services on line on Bali and interesting places in Indonesia from Medan, Jakarta, Bandung Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Lombok, Makassar, Toraja and other places in Indonesia. Especially for Bali there are many destinations such as Kuta, Jimbaran, Nusa Dua, Sanur, Ubud, Candidasa, Lovina and many others. Hotel Reservation online for Bali managed in Bali and Indonesia in general are mostly offering direct booking to them or by local tour agencies that have good deal with most of the hotels or travel suppliers.

Indonesia Original Textile Indonesia textiles can be identified from variety of fabrics, materials, making technique or process, color and motifs of those textiles. In general, we can classified it into three major groups. * "Ikat" weaving. "Ikat" means to tie or bind, is used as the name for intricately patterned cloth which threads is made in many regions of the archipelago, from Sumatera to Maluku and Nusa Tenggara. It is an ancient art from tribes of Indonesia which has a strong ethnic identification. "Songket" is an original Indonesian cloth with silk fabric as the based, and is patterned with gold threads although these days imitative silver or gold is often used. See more