Welcome to Sekar Jagat Spa's blog, complement to
our spa's main page, here we aim to provide additional information on our spa services and infotain you with some Bali trivia.
We are a Balinese spa centrally located among Benoa, Nusa Dua and Jimbaran, Bali.
I came across these old recordings recently when reading Pete’s Bali diary.
The videos show life in Bali in 1910 and in the 1930s, precious contemporary documents.
This one is certainly not from 1946, these recordings were made most likely in the 1930s:
Drove past a sign which read, “AGUS’S CO-OPERATIVE ART CENTER”. If the Balinese can correctly handle the possessive apostrophe, why can’t the Australians? Saw a lot of signs on lamp-posts and walls which suggested, “TALK LESS, DO MORE.” What a great sign to stick on the walls of Parliament House in Canberra!
Related links: All Bali Travelogues Of The Week
(Featured travelogues do not represent the views of this blog, BaliTrivialist or Sekar Jagat Spa)
If you want to look up certain arrivals or departures at Bali’s International airport the official website of Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport Denpasar provides you with up-to-date flight information: International and Domestic schedules list all airlines starting from and landing at DPS, and a live flight status shows you in real-time current arrivals and departures at the two terminals.
Note: Sekar Jagat Spa offer free pick-up from the airport and transfer to your hotel (Nusa Dua, Jimbaran, Kuta), provided at least 1 person/3hrs treatment or 2 people/2hrs treatment each.
When booking your treatment (at least 24 hours before appointment) indicate that you want to get collected at the airport. After arrival call them and they will send their car within 20 minutes to the airport. Transfer to the spa takes less than 20 minutes. After treatment get dropped at your hotel in Nusa Dua, Jimbaran or Kuta.
Related links: Flight Status Arrivals-Departures on baliairport.com
In our upcoming new feature Bali Travel Tools we will point out to you a few useful links that are worth reading and could be helpful to you when doing some research on Bali travel matters or planning your next trip.
Related links: Bali Trivia | Bali Travelogues
Number of tourists visiting Bali in the first quarter of 2009. In brackets compared to Q1 2008. Total number of tourist arrivals in Bali in the first quarter of 2009 reached 490,454 (+4.28%).
Japan
83.470 (-11.63%)
Australia
71.970 (+24.85%)
China
56.030 (+55.62%)
Malaysia
29.971 (+19.85%)
Taiwan
28.066 (-24.01%)
France (+19.02%), Russia (+6.33%),
United Kingdom (-16.01%), USA (-7.05%)
Source: Bali Office of the Central Statistics Board (BPS)
Related links: Bali Tourist Arrivals 2008 (January-June) | Bali Tourist Arrivals 2008 | Central Bureau of Statistics Indonesia
The 31st Annual Bali Arts Festival is being held from 13 June until 11 July this year. The President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is scheduled to open the festival in Denpasar on June 13.
The festival is a wonderful spectacle and a great introduction to Balinese artistic traditions and culture. Events take place throughout each day for an entire month and include handicraft exhibitions, cultural performances, music, classical palace dances and historical exhibitions. 180 art performances from 12 provinces in Indonesia and eight foreign countries - South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, India, China and Mexico and the United States.
It is the biggest event of its kind in the country and you really should try to attend at least one evening. Please don’t mind the long way to Denpasar and the sometimes poor organization of the event, the great performances and atmosphere will make up for that.
Related links: Complete schedule of Bali Arts Festival 2009 | JakartaPost article on upcoming Bali Arts Festival 2009 | Pictures of Bali Arts Festival 2008 on flickr | Bali News
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Nikko Bali Resort & Spa announce in a press release that the 4th Open Golf Tournament will be held on 6 June 2009 at Bali Golf & Country Club Nusa Dua.
Aloysius Purwa, chairman of the Bali branch of the Indonesian Association of Travel Agencies (Asita), said Bali had experienced significant growth in the number of tourists visiting from January to May 2009.
“The number of tourists from China, Malaysia and Taiwan has increased,” Purwa said.
Yesterday seen at Murni’s in Ubud: a rest room kind out of fairyland.
Murni’s Warung has four open-air levels that step down the steep hillside overlooking the river and it is one of Ubud’s most established restaurants.
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Saturday, July 4, 8:06
