Sasak Country and Village Tours Lombok Indonesia

Sasak Village Tour Lombok
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SASAK VILLAGE TOUR

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Fullday excursion to the Southern part of Central Lombok knwon as the land of the Sasak people. First is visiting Sukarara village famous for their weaving cloth, Panujak, one of the pottery village. Lombok pottery handicarft is now famous in the world due to the export and guest visit to their village. A big number of the pottery are exported to the countires such as Europe and USA and Australia. With the spread of Lombok pottery in other countries the name of Sasak are more popular in tourism indusry. Rambitan a typical Sasak village with it's hyperbolic thatched roof huts. This huts is very simple and the shape is very typical. A pavilion in Bali called Lumbung almost having the same architecture with the Lombok huts, but one do not know of the influence come from Bali or it is only co-incident. Kuta beach a 100 meters stretch of golden sandy beach, and an other beautiful beach of Tanjung Aan. Lunch will be served at local restaurant either Indonesian food or Chinese food.
Duration 8 hours Good time 08.00 - 16.00.

2 persons	3 - 5 persons	Lunch
US$ 35.00	US$ 30.00	included
Inclusion air conditioned car, all donation and admission fees, and tour guide speak one of these languages : English, German, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and French. Exclusion Lunch and Tipping

Sasak Village Tours The orignal population of Lombok is called the Sasak, this ethnic group is physically the same as the rest of Indonesian people yet their language is one of the Indonesian dialect closer to East Indonesian archipelagou. Basically the ethnographycal researches found that the people is also decendant of Malay mixed with small Mongoloid character yet more prominent their Malay character with thin blend of Monoloid character, unlike Balinese which physical aspect show strong influence of Monoloid. In term of culture the Sasak know less then variety of Balinese do, since they live in simple way in group of villages and not open for outsiders until late when Balinese kingdom controlled them. During the war between Balinese kingdom of Karangasem and Makassar, the Sasak support the Makassar with the back up of Dutch Idische Compagnie. With this modern arm owned by the V.O.C, Karangasem kingdom at last defeated, although many V.O.C. died during the war in West Lombok such as Kapiten Michel, and many of their soldiers.

Licence No. 256/pariwisata/2001
Jl. Trenggana no 81 A Denpasar 80238 Bali Indonesia
Phone +62-361-463448, 463447, 464054 Fax +62-361-463447

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The island of Lombok which is separated by sea of 4 hours cruise by ferry boat is almost having the same size as Bali. Just it is as Bali the surface of the island is marked with high peak known as mount Rinjani with the height of 3776 meters above sea level. The shape of the island like molusca with the top of concentrated highland gives different condition compared to Bali where mountain are like making row from west to east. Lombok has no record of volcanic eruption remembered by the history, except the fact that mount Rinjani left the trace of tremendous eruption thousands of years ago such as the caldera of the mountain known as Segara Anakan which is now a lake. The Hindu of Lombok at the certain day in a year making a special ritual to the peak of the mountain. In the course of history Lombok has always got influence from Bali, even during 16th and the turn of 18th century Lombok was under control of Karangasem kingdom a kingdom on the eastern tip of Bali island. The annexation ofthe island gave strong influence of Balinese tradition as proved by the heritages on the west and southern parts of the island.

Some interesting places leaving the influence of Balinese traditionwhich are now as the main interest of travelling to Lombok are Mayura Water temple, Suranadi Water Castle, Rinjani mountain with its ritual. All man made temples are located around the capital city of Mataram. Natural beauty such as beaches, Lombok has Senggigi on the west facing Bali and just like Bali it has also Kuta beach on the south. These two beaches are already devlopped as resorts with many tourist facilities.

In the field of daily life the people of Lombok known as Sasak who were ever supervised by Bali develope heir own art such as architeture, basketry, and earthenware. This art andhandicraft are of great interest of Lombok island.