Nipah Beach,beautiful beach view from the hill

        Not too far from Senggigi beach,iconic beach tourism destination in Lombok, still in Senggigi resort area,there is Nipah beach if we go a little bit further to the north,before we reach to bangsal harbor,the harbor that provides boats that take us to three gili's (small islands) we would past through Nipah beach that has beautiful view from the hill.
            It is a bay-shaped beach that in the north and the south it's bounded by cape Serambanan and cape Serombong.

           The North Lombok regency provides place for the tourist if they want to enjoy the view of the hill and rocks and coconut tree that surrounded the beach, beside enjoying the view and taking picture and surely breath of the freas air of the sea,there are also lots of the locals that selling souvenirs like hat,keychain,snack,corn grill and many others.To get to the beach it's not hard because the roadway is already good so we don't have to worry to brought our car.

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Ampenan Beach, memory from an old harbor

The Face of Ampenan District

         If you're kind of people who like  a trip to a classic old town, Ampenan might be suit you, we could see and tracking a little bit about Lombok histrory,old buildings and houses were still preserve in good way as an heritage from Dutch while they were colonizing in Indonesia untill it ends at 1945 when Indonesia get independence.
       In the 60's and 70's Ampenan had importent role as an harbor that connecting people from Lombok to Bali before the harbor was moved to Lembar in West Lombok Regency at the late of 70's.

The Gate to Ampenan Beach

   As a trade center, Ampenan became the place where people from various ethnic such as Arabic, Chinese, Malay, Javanese, and also local people meet to do their trading activity,and it still going on until now. The Mataram city goverment try to do the restoration to the town so it wouldn't be  forgotten as time goes by.

People enjoying the afternoon in cozy place

            Nowdays,the location of ex-harbor is became as a recreation place,place where the whole family could enjoy  ecspecially before the dawn to see the sunset. From the edge side of  the beach,we can see the ocean wiew,the hills and also the local fisherman while they're fishing on their boat.
           The beach became one alternative for people in Mataram to having relaxations ecspecially on the weekend before they comeback doing their activity on the weekdays.

The Youth Enjoying The Sunset

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Nyongkolan,celebration and united of two family in wedding

Photograph by : Wahid Kurniadi

             In Sasak tribe traditional wedding ceremony,there is a phase that called 'nyongkolan', after the couple were pronounce as husband and wife, at the same day the couple went in a procession from the groom's  house to the bride's house,people who accompanying the couple were the groom's family,the neghbours and friends and also a group of local music such as gendang beleq and kecimol,these phase is also some kind an anouncement to the people along the way that these two people (the couple) were alreday becoming husband and wife.
              The couple were treated like king and queen for a day,they were walking along with gendang beleq or kecimol accompaniment until they reach to the bride's house using sasak traditional clothes,but today this tradition is already a little bit changing and had some modification,people no longer playing traditional sasak song using traditional music instrument,but the playing modern music like dangdut music or even pop music while the youth in the parade dancing along the way.

Photograph by : Wahid Kurniadi

           This procession usually held during the weekend,so if we take a ride along the villages in Lombok in the weekend we would find the procession in few places,we would find crowd of people who watching it and it could caused traficc jam for few kilometres.
     For some people this procession is sacred,they believe if the procession didn't held after the wedding,something bad is gonna happen to the couple in their marriage life,so they have to do it even on the poured rain.

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Pink Beach,coloured sand beach under the sun

Photograph by : Wahid Kurniadi

            One of many beautiful beaches that shouldn't be miss to visit when you came to Lombok is pink beach,actuall name of the beach is Tangsi,Tangsi itself mean barrack,because during the world war II, this location becoming barrack for Japanese soldiers, they're build caves for defense,as a proof we can fine the cannons and caves as their herritance.People called pink because the colour of the sand on the beach.It coloured pink from the colour from the coral flake that mix with the sand,it would be more clearly to see if we see it on a bright daylight under the sun. Located on the east side of the island,on Sekaroh village,Jerowaru district,on East Lombok Regency, it takes 2 hours trip by land from Mataram city ( capital of West Nusa Tenggara Province ).
              There are two ways to get to the beach,first, we can get there by land, but unfortunately the infastructure isn't very good,after we get to the cliff up on the beach,we have to walk for about 25 meters down the cliff to get to the beach,all the hard way down is payed when we see the view on the beach.

The boat from local fisherman that ready to take you to the beach and back

              Second way to the beach is by using boat from local fisherman from Tanjung Luar village, it's only take fifteen minutes (approxmately) we can rent them and they will wait for us until we finished playing on the beach,cause the wave is too calm, the beach isn't suitable for surfing,but it's ok for swimming,diving and snorkling, unfortunately in the beach we can't find much people sailing for food,so it would be better if we bring our own food if we want to go to the beach.

Children playing on the beach

       In the world, there are seven places that had same characteristics with pink beach in Lombok,two of them were in Indonesia, beside the one in West Nusa Tenggara,there are also another beach in Komodo island in East Nusa Tenggara province that had same characteristic.

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Pusuk forest,home for the monkeys

The gate to the North Lombok Regency before entering the forrest

       Beside had many beatiful beaches Lombok also had wide area of forest, mostly in the north side of the island,located in North Lombok Regency,pusuk is one of the forest that might attractive for the tourist to came by.

      From Mataram city, the location is only 30 kilometers away ( approximately),we already can feel the atmosphre of coolnes from a forest since we entering the North Lombok Regent,if we going further, take the roadway deeper in to the forrest we're gonna find groups of monkeys along the way.

a group of monkeys in Pusuk

   These monkeys make group according to the bloodline,one group usually had a family connection to the other member of the group. Even the monkeys look tame and you can feed them,but it would be better not try to touch them because we never know that they might be angry and might be bites and scratch you. The local people who stays in the forest never bother them,they just let the monkeys proliferate naturally. Beside the monkeys, you can also enjoy the wiew of wide forest that covered the hill.

wide forest covered the hill

The monkeys try to find the food

          If you take the road along the way, it will lead you to Tanjung, the capital of North Lombok Regent, the forrest wouldn't be along the way because pusuk to Tanjung is still far and it take for about 45 minutes to get there,but don't worry, along the way you still can see the beautiful view of forest and wide ricefield. If you're kind of people who kind a like this kind of tourism beside going to the beach,this could be one option that you can choose on your vacation.

Enjoying the wiew of the forest

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