Senggigi Beach: The beautiful and natural tropical beach

Tourist View - Imagine you are lying on the beach, on a beautiful white sand, with the exotic scenery, and sunshine warms your body. That's what you'll feel when you're on Senggigi Beach on the Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

The beach in the northwest of Mataram is a famous place for its beautiful beaches and naturalness. People often equate the beauty of this beach with famous beaches on the Bali Island, like Kuta, Legian, and Sanur. Actually, Senggigi Beach is more beautiful, because of the condition is more comfortable and quiet. Senggigi beach is beautiful, natural, clean, and has very beautiful underwater scenery.

Visiting Senggigi on Lombok Island may need to be one of your agendas. Just imagine, when entering the beach area, you will be swept away by a gentle breeze, which blows along the coast. You will be served by the exotic charm of the beach.

There are many activities that can be done in this beach, such as swimming, water play, diving, snorkeling, sunbathing, or making sand castles. When evening comes, you can go to walk through the beach, or relax at the seaside hotel while waiting for sunset.

Furthermore, you can visit Pura Batu Bolong. When you walk down the Senggigi Beach about thirty minutes, you will find a temple built on the reef which is located on the waterfront. By the people this temple is named Pura Batu Bolong. According to local legend, once in the temple is often held sacrifice of a virgin, as a serving of food to shark who live on the beach. Another legend says, the temple is a place where the women committed suicide by plunging into the sea because of a broken heart.

An interesting thing at night during the full moon, you will find many people who take advantage of the warm sand of Senggigi to medical therapy. They bury part or all the body to the neck for about 2-3 hours. This therapy is believed to cure various diseases, such as fatigue to paralysis. If interested in this activity, you can join and try it.

If you want a souvenir, there are many sellers of pearls and woven fabric with various motifs and colors. Pearls have been assembled into beautiful jewelry that can be easily found for sale on the beach. If you want to assemble that pearls by yourself, you can buy plain pearl beads. Plain pearl is usually sold in the form of a string necklace. You can assemble them as you wish.

Location

Senggigi Beach is located on the northwest of Mataram City, West Lombok Regency, West NusaTenggara Province, Indonesia. To go to Senggigi Beach is quite easy, because there are port and airport on the Lombok Island. From Bali Island, you can depart from Karang Asem Port by ferry directly to Senggigi, it takes time about 30 minutes. This travel will be faster with a plane from Ngurah Rai Airport in Denpasar, towards Selaparang Airport in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara capital city, only takes about 15 minutes.

There is another path, you may depart from Padang Bay Port, Bali, using a ferry towards to Lembar Port in Lombok Island. On the way,you can see beautiful natural scenery, and many dolphins are chasing each other following the ship. The trip from Padang Bay to the Lembar Port takes about 4 hours. From Lembar Port you can continue to the Mataram City. Senggigi Beach only 11 kilometers distance from Mataram, can be reached by taxi and other vehicles.

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