Tuesday, February 17, 2009

International Yoga Festival 2009

Bali is to host a one-week International Yoga Festival from March 3-10, 2009, Bali-India Foundation chairman Dr Somvir said.

He said the festival would involve hundreds of yoga instructors from various countries around the world.

"Themed Yoga for Peace and Health, such an international activity will be a follow up of Yoga Day program which has been intensified in the past two years," Somvir said.

He added that the whole series of activity would be held around Monument Perjuangan Rakyat Bali (Bali People,s Struggle Monument) a Niti Mandala Renon area in Denpasar.

Somvir said that during the one-week activity, the yoga instructors would actively give yoga courses which were good for health.

The yoga exercises are open to participants from other religious group who would like to maintain their health condition and to heal various diseases they suffer from through the exercises.

"During the festival, the yoga instructors from foreign countries will instruct and train the participants with patience," Somvir said, adding that the participants and instructors from other countries would also hold a series of meeting to discuss various matters related to yoga, worldwide development, and exchange information about the exercise.

Source: Antara News

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Monday, February 16, 2009

New Commercial Visit Indonesia 2008-2009

Got this video from Youtube.
Hope it will be a great year for tourism business in Indonesia.

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Bandung Tour Package from Mahanagari

As I mentioned on my Facebook Notes, Bandung will always be my beloved hometown. I live in Bandung for about 25 years. I wasn't born in Bandung but lived and grew up there. Currently, Bandung is a bit different in detail compare to 9 years ago since I moved to Jakarta. I hope Local Government can make Bandung more comfortable, because Bandung will always be a hotspot for local tourism.

I never met Mahanagari, I only knew him from his product (actually I kinda like the Angkot T Shirt, I have two of them: Caringin-Sadang Serang and Dago-Gede Bage). I also find him in Facebook and join his group, and finally found his official website. An established website, not an ordinary one.

There are a lot of websites mention about Bandung, specially when you're searching tourism around Bandung and also oleh-oleh from Bandung. Mahanagari website concentrate on his own products and also tourism packages. I believe the product and the package are unique, so Mahanagari.

There are two tourism package currently running by him. One is the tour package to Gua Pawon (Kitchen Cave), a cave with 25 million year age. For those of you have interest in Geology or Earth History, this package will make you more understand about History of Bandung. The other one is Water Package, Tour to Pangalengan (Southern Bandung). Walking around the tea plant and also will be continue with rafting in Palayangan River.

I'm a person who love traveling and adventouring, so these two package can be a good start to explore Bandung in a different way. No Factory Outlet, please... : )

PS: It will be better if the website also has an english version since the title is "Bandung is Home"

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Monday, February 2, 2009

I'm back...

It's February already and I'm back...hehehe...

Visit Indonesia Year 2008 was officially extended to 2009. So, if you didn't travel in Indonesia last year, don't worry -- 2009 will also be the year to visit.

I hope I can write more and more this time.

Visit Indonesia Year, extended to 2009.

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