Showing posts with label Indonesia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indonesia. Show all posts

Thursday, 18 July 2013

Tanah Lot at Bali,Indonesia

Tanah Lot is a rock formation off the Indonesian island of Bali

Tanah Lot is one of the famous tourist island of Bali. Located in the village of Beraban, district of Kediri, Tabanan regency. The distance is about 13 km to the west of the town of Tabanan. From Ngurah Rai airport can be reached in less than 1 hour with a motor vehicle if there is no congestion.

Pura Tanah Lot Bali

Built in two different places. One is located on top of a large boulder, and the other located on a cliff jutting into the sea similar to the Uluwatu Temple. The cliff is what connects the temple with the land and shaped like a curved bridge.

This temple is part of the Pura Dang heaven in Bali, as a place of worship the gods of the sea guard. This temple will be seen surrounded by sea water at high tide. At the bottom there is a small cave in which there is some sea snakes that have a characteristic flat tail like a fish, striped yellow black. According to the story of the sea snake is the incarnation of the scarf perdiri temple is a Brahmin who wander from Java to Bali. He is Dang Yang Nirartha. The snake was sent as a snake temple guards.

From the parking lot to the temple there are many shops that sell a variety of handicrafts. For example, sculpture, painting, fabric beach, knick-knacks, and accessories. There are also food vendors and beverage and rental restroom or toilet. The price is relatively cheap for domestic and foreign tourists.

Thursday, 11 July 2013

Borobudur, Indonesia

Borobudur, Indonesia

A shrine to Buddha and a popular destination for Buddhist pilgrimages, Borobudur is a monument made up of a stepped pyramid topped with stupas and about 500 statues of Buddha. Borobudur is the most visited tourist attraction in Indonesia as well as the world’s largest Buddhist monument.
Built during the Seilendra Dynasty of the eight and ninth centuries, the temple reflects Indian and Indonesian influences in its stairways and corridors, lined with narrative panels of art carved into the stone walls. Though the site was a destination for Buddhist pilgrims for many years, it was abandoned in the 1500s, probably with the rise in Islam in the region, though it has recently been revived.

Visitors make the pilgrimage to enlightenment from the monument through the three symbolic levels of cosmology: Kamadhatu (the world of desire), Rupadhatu (the world of forms) and Arupadhatu (the world of formlessness).