Tour for Cruise Ship Passenger

A woman caress a future pot skillfully with her muddy hand, or other Lombok pottery stuffs that are having in drying process are view that you will see in Banyumulek village. This village is one of pottery centres in Lombok island. In Banyumulek village, making pottery is a job that has been done for sasak Lombok tribe for generations. The job has been able to move the village economic wheel and attract many visitors and buyers to come to this village.

Weaved cloth is one of traditional arts of Lombok island which has special and distinct beauty. You can find that when you’re in Sukarara village and you will hear traditional weaving tool, not a machine. This village indeed is a village which already wide known as traditional weaved cloth producer in Lombok island. The life of the people is mostly filled by operating the traditional tool to weave. They produce various kinds of merchandise, such as cloth, dress, table cover, blanket, and scarf with high quality and beautiful motifs. Due the high quality product they produce, their village has been widely attract many visitors, local or foreign.

If you want to feel religious harmony symbol, you can meet it at Lingsar temple. This temple is considered to be a symbol of harmony between Hindu Bali Lombok and Islam Sasak Lombok. This temple was built in 1714 by comer from Bali and has been renovated. lingsar templeBefore entering this Lombok temple, you will pass a garden with twin pools inside which filled with lotus. Lingsar temple consists of three main building, which are gaduh, kemaliq, and pesiraman. Gaduh is a sacred place for Hindu. Inside, you can see four junctions which symbolize god who dwell two mountains. The junction in the east side was built to worship god in Rinjani mountain. The junction in the west side, was built to worship god in Agung mountain. Between those two junctions, there are two united pesinggahan (stopover) which is symbolize the combination between the junction in Rinjani and Agung mountain.

The Islamic Center Mosque, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara is a charm of worth visit tourism. The mosque building that spent hundreds of billions was established to unify Muslim community on the island of thousand mosques (Lombok). This mosque was built since the leadership of Governor, TGB. M.zainul Majdi, and it was inaugurated on December 15, 2013. The Islamic Center Mosque combines the characteristics of traditional Lombok and Sumbawa buildings. The mosque building was beautified with a 99 meter high tower which was adjusted to 99 names of Allah (Asma'ul Husna). The tower building is opened as a tourism object to watch the face of the city of Mataram from a height both during the day and night. In addition, the other beautiful feature in the Islamic Center Mosque is its dome which is decorated by Sasambo motifs as typical of West Nusa Tenggara.

Lombok traditional market

a place of many option for lunch !