Bali Travel Library

Kampung Bali : Shopping in Kuta

blog — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:43:34 +0000

If you stay in Kuta, now you can get some souvenirs easier. No need to go to Sukawati Art market, if you have only a brief time to outing. Try Kampung Bali.

Located in Mertanadi Street, closed to Bali Bakery, Bandar Seafood and Papaya Hypermarket, Kampung Bali offers you all Bali has to offer , in terms of souvenirs.

You can get local food, handicrafts, T-shirt and the things you can get in Sukawati Art Market. But, of cource, the price is more expensive than you can get in Sukawati.

Easy access to get here and Kampung Bali also provides free pick up for area of Kuta and surroundings.

Wonder? Just give a try to shop here.

Sukawati Traditional Art Market

blog — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:37:15 +0000

If you wonder where to get affordable souvenirs in Bali. We’ve come with the answer now. It’s Sukawati Traditional Art Market or Pasar Seni Sukawati in Bahasa.

In tour itinerary, this tourist object is included especially for Kintamani package tours. You can find any kind of souvenirs about Bali here starting from T-shirt, bags, bed covers, pants, photo frame and other things.

The interesting experience you can try here is bargain. Bargaining is such a pleasurable experience, since if you are a good bargainer, you can get best rates here.

This market is very favorite and loved by tourists both local and foreign tourists.

So once you’re in your holiday in Bali, ask your driver to drive to Sukawati Art Market to get the souvenirs home.

Taste Tum

blog — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:21:44 +0000

Next is Tum for Balinese dishes.

Tum is made of various spices and encased with banana leaf then steamed for two hours. Tum is served to accompany nasi putih (steamed rice), we have to peel the banana leaf first before we can enjoy the spicy Tum.

This is also a must to taste Balinese cuisine along with pig suckling, Lawar, Jukur Ares and others.

Balinese Culinary : Plecing Kangkung

blog — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:17:45 +0000

Kangkung is the Indonesian word for swamp cabbage, a very common vegetable consumed by locals. Swamp cabbages are hand -picked and sliced to small pieces, then boiled.

The plecing kangkung is served with very spicy and hot sauce made of chili, shrimp paste, peaneuts and lime juice. The fact that most girls like plecing kangkung.

It is also very easy to find this menu in Balinese -menu restaurants and warung Bali.

Balinese Satay : Sate Lilit

blog — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:01:05 +0000

Sate Lilit is made of seafood, mince to paste like state before being put back together around the Katik sate (satay stick) creating an interesting seafood taste. As most of Balinese food, sate lilit is also hot and spicy because its spices are made of birds-eye chillies. The sour taste comes from lime leaves and lime juice mixed in the spices.

A lot will agree if we say this is the best there is, perhaps the finest tasting satay in the world.

Let’s enrich your experinces about Balinese culinary by trying out.

Taste Balinese Jukut Ares

blog — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:56:06 +0000

This dish can be Balinese soup. It’s called Jukut Ares.

It is made of young banana tree mixed with various meats such as pork meat. The young banana trunk is chopped and boiled in spicy water resulting in a soup-like culinary experience.

This is also very favorit and loved in Bali. So while tasting Balinese dishes, do not forget also to try this soup

Balinese Sausage : Urutan

blog — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:43:18 +0000

Now you might be wondering if suckling pig has its inside stuffed with spices and vegetables, where do the insides go? Do they throw it away? Of course not. They make urutan out of it.

Urutan is sausage ala Bali made of chopped pork encased within pig’s intestines. Coconut fiber is used to fasten the ends of the intestines and then usually local Balinese would hang the urutan on a tree (to prevent dogs or cats stealing it) for approximately 1 day before trying and serving it.

Some said that the drier it gets, the better it tastes.

The best way to cook urutan is fried and grilled. Enjoy it, it is very tasty.

Balinese Dishes : Babi Guling or Pig Suckling

blog — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:30:27 +0000

If you’ve been to Bali and have tried some local dishes. This must be you may have heard or even you tried.

Babi Guling or Pig Suckling is the most iconic and popular Balinese dishes. Babi Guling is made of a whole young pig stuffed with various spices and roll-roasted for 3-4 hours on a top of a coconut husk fire. One serving of Babi Guling usually consists of the dry and crispy skins, diced babi guling meat and the spices from inside the Babi Guling.

It is very easy to find restaurants or warung (stall) that serve Babi Guling as a menu. Babi Guling is usually served with Lawar too.

The best Babi Guling Restaurant in Bali can be in Warung Gemah Ripah in Denpasar and Warung Bu Oka in Ubud. If you rent a car in Bali with a driver, ask them to go to those places and then you can taste the real Balinese Dishes.

Be aware that most of Balinese dishes are spicy and little bit hot.

Balinese Cuisine : Lawar

blog — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:18:06 +0000

After getting where to stay in Kuta or other places in Bali, now it’s time to find out what Balinese Cuisine has to offer. Lawar is one of the traditional and most popular cuisine here.

Lawar is Babi Guling’s sidekick (Babi Guling means Pig Suckling) and is usually served during traditional Balinese ceremonies. The main ingredients are turtle meat (now it’s forbidden since Turtle is nearly in extinction), chicken, beef combined with coconut and jack fruit, yet the most complex ingredients are spices.

The main ingredients is chopped into small pieces and then cooked with the spices.

Sometimes, they add blood too, thus resulting the red color that Lawar usually is. So finding out the color is the way to know if it has blood or not to put. But do not get worried, most that you find in the restaurants and warung (stalls) that sell Lawar is bloodless.

Not many Balinese people can be a good Patus (Lawar Maker). In some groups called Banjar, they usually have one or two patus.

The best moment to find people making this popular dish is when there is a ceremony. They will make Lawar because they use it in ceremony.

Airlines based in Bali

blog — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:47:11 +0000

Want to book your ticket? Wonder where to get the information. List of airlines based in Bali below will may help you.

Air France
Grand Bali Beach Hotel, Sanur
Ph. +62 361 288511 Ext. 1104/106
Fax. +62 361 287734

Air Korea
Grand Bali Beach Hotel, Sanur
Ph. +62 361 289402

Air New Zealand
Wisti Sabha Building, Airport Ngurah Rai, Tuban
Phone : +62 361 756170
Fax.: +62 361 754594

Ansett Australia
Grand Bali Beach Hotel, Sanur
Ph. +62 361 289635-6
Fax. +62 361 289637

Bouraq Indonesian Airlines
Jl. Sudirman 19 A, Denpasar
Ph. +62 361 223564, 234947

Cathay Pacific
Hotel Bali Beach, Sanur
Ph. +62 361 288511 Ext. 1768 or 288576, 286001

China Airlines
Hotel Bali Beach, Sanur
Ph. +62 361 288511 Ext. 1107 or 878440,
Airport Phone : +62 361 754856

Continental Airlines
Hotel Bali Beach, Sanur
Ph. +62 361 288511 Ext. 15923, or 287774

Eva Air
Wisti Sabha Administration Building,
Ground Floor, Room no. 4, Ngurah Rai Airport
Ph. +62 361 751011 Ext. 1638,
Fax. +62 361 756488

Garuda Indonesia
Jl. Melati No. 61 Denpasar
Ticketing : +62 361 225245
Reservation And Reconfirmation Office :

+62 361 234606, 235169, 227625, 222788,
or 288243, 751179, 771864, 771444

Japan Airlines
Grand Bali Beach Hotel, Ph. +62 361 287576 or
Ngurah Rai Airport, Ph. +62 361 756132

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
Gedung Wisti Sabha, Ngurah Rai Airport
Ph. +62 361 756124, 756126, 156127
Fax. +62 361 753950

LTU International Airways

GSA for passenger and cargo and Ambhara Dhiptya,
Jl. Raya Kuta No. 88 R Ph. +62 361 753778
Fax. +62 361 757562

Lufthansa

Grand Bali Beach Hotel, Sanur
Ph. +62 361 288511 Ext. 1101, 1103

Malaysia Airlines System
Hotel Bali Beach, Sanur
Ph. +62 361 288511 Ext. 1165 or 285071-73, 288716
Airport : Ph. +62 361 756132

Merpati Nusantara
Jl. Melati 57, Denpasar
Ph. +62 361 235358, 231962

National Jet Systems
General Sales Agent - Qantas Travel Centre,
Grand Bali Beach Hotel, Sanur
Ph. +62 361 288331
9-5 pm or a/h 001 800 61786

Qantas Airways
Hotel Bali Beach, Sanur
Ph. +62 361 288511 Ext. 8585
or 288331-3, 751412, or 288823-4, 237343

Royal Brunei
Wisti Sabha Building, Ngurah Rai
Ph. +62 361 757292

Singapore Airlines
Hotel Bali Beach, Sanur
Ph. +62 361 288511 Ext. 1587, 1314, or +62 361 261666
(Jl. Dewi Sartika, Denpasar)

Thai Airways International
Grand Bali Beach Hotel
Ph. +62 361 288511 Ext. 1126, 1117, 288141, 288243,
or +62 361 754856 (Airport)

UTA
Jl. By Pass Ngurah Rai No. 87 X, Sanur-Denpasar 8027
Ph. +62 361 289225, 289226, 289227
Fax. +62 361 289228

Telex : 235321 AEA DPR IA or 35321 GKRIS IA