8 Prep Before You Go on Vacation

Bali Personal Drivers - Every time you want to go, all things must be prepared carefully. Likewise with your vacation, you need to prepare it carefully, especially for those of you, who want to make a vacation to the place that far enough. Vacation must be prepared with great care, ranging from finance, transportation, clothing, personal equipment including lodging. To make your vacation goes smoothly and as expected, vacation planning sometimes need special attention and time. 8 things that you need to prepare before vacation is deserve to consider as a note for those of you about what you need to prepare, when you want to start your vacation.

• Do some research about the area or destination you want to visit. Compile a sufficient preliminary information about your destination, whether the mountains, the city or the beach, if you have a map that will be better. This information is very useful and prevents you from bringing the wrong equipment or costumes.


• Note also the weather. Despite weather monitoring agency can not guarantee that, at least you get the approximate weather. You can estimate how much clothing or equipment to be prepared.


• Identify habits or culture in a place you want to visit because this will help you to adapt and interact with the locals.


• Create a list of important documents that must be taken. Such as ID cards, important phone numbers, ATM and more.


• Make a note of what items would you take from bath appliance to the type of clothing required. Note also the items needed for you who have small children.


• Make reservations for hotels, car, train or airline before you begin your journey. Maybe you will get a cheaper price and also to avoid running out of tickets.


• Check your credit card, if possible ask for credit increases or create a new credit card that can be received in many places. Check the validity. Bringing ATM is much more secure than carrying cash excessively.


• Plan your travel itinerary. Make a note about any places that you want to visit and how long you're there. Do not let you spend too much time in one place, so you do not have time to explore other places

Reference : indonesia.travel/id
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The Controversy of Pendet Dance

Bali Personal Drivers - Pendet Dance had been a controversy a few years ago, precisely in the middle of 2009. This happens because of the emergence of one of the dance creations from the island of Bali in a Malaysian tourism advertisement. A commercial television program entitled "Enigmatic Malaysian" which advertises about Malaysia tourism, in its impressions briefly gave rise the Balinese Pendet dancers. The promotion of "Visit Malaysia Year" which presents a glimpse of the graceful swing and the sweet smile from the four of the Balinese Pendet dancers makes Indonesian people uneasy. These tourism advertisements which aggressively deployed internationally by Malaysia, suspected of being a Malaysian effort to claim Pendet dance as its own culture, which is not really a dance that originated from Malaysia but the dance that comes from the island of Bali, Indonesia.

Many argue that Malaysia's claim over Pendet Dance was triggered by pragmatic-economic interests of Malaysia at that time. Malaysia at the time was managing its tourism industry very seriously and promote the nation as "Truly Asia". Pendet Dance as one of Balinese dance which is very familiar to welcome foreign tourists, they borrowed without permission for imaging the aesthetic value of their cultural existence. But because the Pendet Dance as also Reog Ponorogo, Rasa Sayange song and Batik which previously had also claimed to be the Malaysian culture, is the expression of a sub-culture of Indonesia, of course the act and the lunge of Malaysia is unethical, even yelled as the thief. Desire and aggressiveness of capitalism of Malaysian tourism seems to have made ​​this country lost its shame.

The Malaysian act which claims Pendet Dance as the part of their culture, it is very regrettable by I Wayan Rindi family. In his lifetime, I Wayan Rindi never thought to register his invention so as not to be replicated in other countries. Balinese dance was never patented, because it contains the values ​​of the vast spiritual and can not be monopolized as a human creation or a particular nation.

However, the Malaysian government with its arrogant stating that they were not responsible for these ads, they are unreasonable because the ad was made by Discovery Channel Singapore. Discovery Channel Singapore finally sent a letter of apology to the two countries, and stated that their network is solely responsible for the ad. But nevertheless, this incident no doubt triggers anti-Malaysian sentiment in Indonesia.

Read also History of Pendet Dance.

Reference : isi-dps.ac.id
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