Bali has become a favorite destination for locals and international tourists for ages. Full of beautiful beaches, stunning scenery, trinkets extraordinary and fascinating culture, Bali is ideal for people who want to escape from everyday activities, enjoy a honeymoon, or even, have a great time with family and friends.
With a population recorded as 3.151 million in 2005, this island is home to most of Indonesia's small Hindu minority. 93.18% of Bali's population adheres to Balinese Hinduism, while most of the remainder follow Islam. It is also the largest tourist destination in the country and is well known that highly developed arts, including dance, sculpture, painting, leather, metal and music.
History
History of Bali is still vague for the first few centuries, although many Hindu artifacts have been found, which leads back to the first century, showed a tie with the religion. Although very found first primary religion of Bali, was found as far as 500 AD, is Buddhism. In addition, Yi-Tsing, a Chinese scholar who visited Bali in the year 670 AD stated that he had visited this place and see Buddhism there.
In the 11th century, Hindu and Javanese influences become very important for Bali. In fact, when the father of Bali Prince Airlanggha died around 1011 AD, he moved to East Java, bringing together under one kingdom and appointed his brother, Son Wungsu, the ruler of the whole Bali. After this time, there are a lot of political ideas and artistic reciprocal formed. Java language, called Kawi, became preference aristocracy, among other Java properties and customs that work in the life of Bali.
When Airlanggha died in the mid 11th century, Bali remained fairly autonomous until 1284, when the king of East Java Bali Kertanegara conquered and ruled there from her home in Java. Kertanegara killed in 1292, and Bali once again released, until 1343 when it was brought back to the control of Java by the Hindu-Javanese general Gajah Mada, from the kingdom of Majapahit.
At this time, the 16th century, Islam spread throughout Sumatra and Java, and the Majapahit Empire began to fall, creating a large exodus of aristocracy, priests, artists and artisans to Bali. It brought great prosperity Bali, Bali became the golden age of cultural history for the following centuries. Bali soon became a major force in this area, taking control of neighboring Lombok and East Java snippet.
In 1597, Dutch sailors were the first Europeans landed in Bali, even though they are not real interested in Bali until the 1800s. In 1846 the Dutch returned with colonization in their minds, because it has a vast expanse of Indonesia under their control since 1700. The Netherlands sent troops into northern Bali, and by 1894, they had sided with the Sasak people of Lombok to beat Bali. By 1911, all the kingdoms of Bali was under Dutch rule.
After World War I, a sense of Indonesian nationalism began to grow, leading to the declaration of the national language in 1928, as Indonesian. World War II brought the Japanese, who expelled the Dutch and occupied Indonesia from 1942 to 1945.
Japan was defeated, and the Netherlands back to try to regain control of Bali and Indonesia. However, in 1945, Indonesia declared independence by the first president, Sukarno. Dutch government handed, and Indonesia was officially recognized as an independent state in 1949.
entry Most international visitors will fly to Bali directly.
People & Culture
Bali's reputation as a tourist destination has been established in the minds of many people around the world. This is known as a beautiful island with mountains, temples, palaces and visit terraced rice fields.
This is known as a place where art and cultural traditions dominate, where the village way of life based on strong religious beliefs are still in place.
But, it is also a place where the modern sports such as diving, sailing, rafting and above all surfing has been arrested and enjoyed by thousands of visitors every year. This is the place where the main luxuries of life: food, spa and massage has reached the peak of perfection.
Behind all this is the premise that invisible one; none of these practices, and the pursuit of pleasure was created as a tourist industry in Bali, but based on the talent, dedication and skills of the people of Bali in the normal course of their lives.
Cuisine
As with other areas of food in Indonesia, Bali food is rice as a main course served with a small portion of spicy, spicy vegetables, fish or meat and served with chili sauce or chili paste almost always. Bali are some areas in Indonesia are predominantly non-Muslim, so the roast suckling pig or pig is a specialty, such as betutu duck, smoked stuffed duck wrapped in bamboo leaves.
In the Jimbaran area, for example, you can taste the seafood dishes while sitting on the beach. Visit this place at night, cool atmosphere and caressing breeze will make your dining experience extraordinary.
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