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Senggigi Lombok

(Lomboktrip.com) / Apr 27, 2008
The range of restaurants and accommodation, and its laidback atmosphere, help make Senggigi the ideal place for a relaxing holiday on Lombok. It is easy to arrange visits and tours to other parts of Lombok from here.
The reasons why Senggigi to became a tourist destination speak for itself. The tourist finds here long, white sand beaches in broad bays and a country tongue covered with palms. The vestige of a rif invites to snorkels and nearly every evening is there always the fascinating and fairy-like sun perdition with on the context the silhouette of the Gunung Agung on bali, which rises clearly to the horizon on the other side of the street lombok.

From the airport, which is in Mataram a few kilometers to the south, or the ferry port, at Lembar about 35 km away, it takes little more than half an hour to reach the series of sweeping beaches at Senggigi. A direct boat service goes to Gili Trawangan, and a Perama tourist bus office scheduled services to Bali (via ferry) as well as serving destinations around Lombok.

Money changers, airline agents, car and bike hire operators - all thinly spread across Lombok as a whole -are handily located along the one main road that defines Senggigi. The centre of Senggigi may be taken as the cluster of establishment across the road from the Lombok Intan Laguna hotel.

If you want be released of the upheaval, a short walk is advise. At longer excursions you run up however always against the coastroad. A walk in Southern direction brings you after approximately 1 km at a small Hindu temple, which stands on a rock point. The name of the temple has been inferred of by water rock worn down: Batu Bolong (bolong=stone, Batu=rock). The temple has been built in the direction of the saint mount of bali, the Gunung Agung. According to the legend virgins were here sacrificed, whom one threw for the sharks in the sea. For the coast you can still find sharks.

After 2 km more you runs up against important Wetu Telu , Batu Layar. A small house accommodates the sepulchre of a saint.

To the north the range of Mangsit locks up that of Senggigi .There a new tourist centre with hotels has arisen. The way climbs to small plateaus from where you have a splendid view on the palmtrees, the sea, rocks and quiet villages.