The island of Lombok is located east of Bali island and can be easily accessed by air or by sea. Lombok is a perfect getaway for both individual travellers and honeymooners.
Lombok has usually been overlooked as 'that place near Bali,' but it’s becoming more and more popular nowadays. It offers a view of the old Indonesia, with its dense forests, traditional thatched villages, empty beaches. A massive volcano, the 12,000-foot Mt. Rinjani is Indonesia's second-highest peak. The life of natives have been just a little disturbed so far, there are unusual mosque, well known Sasak ceramic, basketwork, plantation of manioc and cashew nuts. In Sasak Language Lombok mean Straight and in Indonesia language meaning is Chili.
Bali has been inhabited since early prehistoric times firstly by descendants of a prehistoric race who migrated through mainland Asia to the Indonesian archipelago, thought to have first settled in Bali around 3000 BC. Stone tools dating from this time have been found near the village of Cekik in the island's west.
The First European contact with Bali is thought to have been when Dutch explorer Cornelis de Houtman arrived in 1597, though a Portuguese ship had foundered off the Bukit Peninsula as early as 1585. Dutch rule over Bali came later, was more aggressively fought for, and was never as well established as in other parts of Indonesia such as Java and Maluku.
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