Hotels Lombok

Chriswan Sungkono travels through the islands of Eastern Indonesia for a date with a dragon. A big one.   We alight from the boat on the wooden jetty at just the precise moment to greet the rising sun. It's that kind of salubrious morning everyone can be cheerful about. Never mind that last night all 17 of us slept – or tried to – in a condition I guess we had only ever imagined before: lying...

A trekking event involving over 2,800 participants planted at least 3,000 seedlings in Pusuk forest, West Lombok, to improve people's awareness on the importance of preserving the environment. Participants included high-school students, civil servants, police and military personnel, tourism businesspeople, NGO activists and the general public. Six environmental activists from Japan also took...

MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: Lack of road access may delay the opening of the new Lombok International Airport in Central Lombok, an official has said. Head of management at PT Angkasa Pura I Selaparang International Airport in Mataram, I Ketut Erdy Nuka, said construction had not been completed on a new road linking the airport to provincial capital Mataram. "*Lack of* a main access road will...

A trekking event involving over 2,800 participants planted at least 3,000 seedlings in Pusuk forest, West Lombok, to improve people's awareness on the importance of preserving the environment. Participants included high-school students, civil servants, police and military personnel, tourism businesspeople, NGO activists and the general public. Six environmental activists from Japan also took...

For nature: Women arrange offerings during the Sad Kertih ritual at Melase Beach in West Lombok over the weekend. Participants at the ritual believe it will help maintain natural harmony. JP/Panca Nugraha Hundreds of Hindus in Lombok Island carried out the solemn Sad Kertih ritual, which seeks blessing for natural balance and harmony.Ritual observers flocked to Melase Beach, Batulayar district,...

A wooden pier on Lombok's Medana beach. (JP/Prodita Sabarini) A perfectly round sun in glaring hues of red and orange was sinking behind the horizon between the islands of Gili Air and Gili Meno in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. Cruising on a boat that was moving into the sunset, I sat dreamily, watching the sky turn from grayish-blue to purplish-pink. The sun was reflected in the rippling water,...

1.PAKET I  LOMBOK PAKET TOUR 3 HARI/2MALAM ( CITY/SASAK/OUT )   Hari 01 : IN - CITYTOUR                                                               ...

It was still early in the morning when we arrived at Lombok's Selaparang Airport. As we set foot on the airport's tarmac, our eyes were greeted by Lombok's mountains and scenic lush forest. A postcard view it was. Indeed, Lombok has become the new, upcoming tourist destination in Indonesia. It seems that the gods from Bali decided to move away from that island, due to its ever-growing population,...

MATARAM, Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (JP): The island's handicraft makers are breathing a deep sigh of relief after several months when they felt thelife was being choked out of them. Foreign visitors are slowly coming back to Lombok after last January's sectarian riots which devastated the local tourist industry. After a long hiatus, sales are being made in local villages renowned for their...

Lombok is the perfect alternative to its more crowded and busier neighbor, Bali. When you visit Lombok island, you will see a mixture of the cultures of Bali and Lombok, but if you visit only Bali island you certainly cannot view the culture of Lombok. Home to Sasak people, who migrated to Lombok from East Java as the Hindu Majapahit Empire fell at the end of the 14th century, the island is...

DENPASAR (JP): Over the past few weeks, several major hotels in Bali havehelped promote tourism in neighboring Lombok, which went back to square onein the wake of anti-Christian rioting in January....

Lombok has always been compared to Bali, as though it is the beautiful but neglected step-sister, the Cinderella of the Indonesian travel world. Travel brochures breathlessly describe it as ""the way Bali used to be"", or ""From Lombok, we can see Bali, but from Bali we cannot see Lombok"", a reference to how the minority Hindu population on the island has also built some magnificent temples....