Starting from January 2010 not all travel agent could go in and out passengers’ check in room at Mataram Selaparang Airport. Therefore, airport pass is given for the agents that already have business and counter at the airport. This limitation is in order to prevent density in the airport. For those, travel agents helped their […]

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In the end of 2009, Senggigi tourism object will still flooded by tourists. Rooms in every hotel had declared fully reserved though the guests should bought high packet prize – including a necessity to buy dinner packet and end year event – Most of the tourists is domestic tourists from big cities in Indonesia […]

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14 bunker or cave for Japanese military shelter was found at the coast of Huu beach Dompu regency. Its location is for about one kilometer form Lakey surfing location in front of India Ocean. Dompu provincial government will renovate it becoming a site for tourism object after surfing and other historical archeology sites such as […]

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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 […]

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Citing governmental paralysis and hinting that too many officials had their hands out, Dubai’s state-owned Emaar Properties PJSC has cancelled its massive $600 million property project that was to turn the pristine island of Lombok into another Bali. “We have closed our office in Jakarta starting Friday,” said Elly Savitri, Emmar Indonesia’s human resources manager. […]

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“Come and get shipwrecked,” advertised an island brochure, and that is precisely what it felt like as we followed a group of French, Russian, and Australian tourists off the speedboat after a 2 1/2-hour trip from Bali to this little island in the Indian Ocean.
There are no cars, no motorcycles, no police on the Gili […]

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Lombok island sits just across a narrow strait from Bali. But unlike its sister island — a travel Mecca that has become even more popular thanks to Russian and Chinese package tours — Lombok has remained largely in the shadows, save for a trickle of foreign travelers who have discovered its charms.

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It was a few days into my journey across Lombok when a strange, yet oddly pleasant, mental miasma descended upon me. My guide, Bahar, and I couldn’t figure out what day of the week it was. Bahar suspected it was Thursday; I thought it was Wednesday. And so, for a while, we remained lost in […]

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For years it has lived in the shadow of its more famous neighbor, Bali. Now pristine Lombok Island of Indonesia is making a concerted effort to build itself up as the next Bali, while trying to maintain its natural charm. Slower to catch the tourism train than its neighbor to the west, Lombok has been […]

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Travel expert of The Times, South African daily news which also available online, answers queries on routes and destinations around the world.
Q: We are planning to go to Lombok Island, Indonesia, and need advice on the best way to get there and where to stay, our preference being for a small hotel on the […]

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