Today (09/09/2009) 99 paragliding fly together in the air of Timbis Beach Nusa Dua Bali. This effort was recorded in the Indonesian Record Museum (MURI) for breaking the previous record last year, the 88 paragliding join-flight.

Record-breaking effort of paragliding join-flight this year took place the same as last year in the area of Nusa Dua Beach Bali Timbis. This record-breaking effort was followed by paragliding pilots from domestic and abroad. This record-breaking effort begins at 09.00 local time. And at around 12.05 local time, a record of 99 paragliding flight in the air Timbis is broken.

“The join-flight record this times is recorded in the Indonesian Museum Record or MURI as record number 3907. This record broke the record set in 2008 of 8 August 88th, the 88 paragliding join-flight, “said MURI manager, Paul Pangka when handed an award from MURI to the steering committee.

In addition to record-breaking of 99 paragliding join-flight, activities this year also managed a new record with the longest paragliding flight, that is for 9 hours 9 minutes on behalf of Dedi Arifianto. This record also broke the record set last year of flying for 8 hours and 8 minutes.

Throughout this week, Sanur tourism area on the island of god, Bali, full of fun. Since wednesday (8 / 12), Sanur Village Festival (SVF) was held for the fourth time. This special party for the tourists is held at the Mertasari beach in the area of four hectares.

This year, the SVF brings a theme of “Marine Life”. This theme is in accordance with the Visit Indonesia 2009 platform, the Cruise, Marine and MICE. The event which will end on Sunday (8 / 16) will spoil the jazz music, beach sports, yoga, and culinary tourism lovers.

The  SVF held Quadrathon; Golf Tournaments with prizes of 2 cars and Rp. 100.000.000 cash money; Asian Beach Games; professional fishing competitions; performing arts & arts instalation; Cartoon Festival, Jazz Festival, Food Festival; Bazaar; Food Heritage; Culinary Challenge; Photo Rally & Photo Contest; Seawalker & Coral Plantation; Cultural Parade, Fun Games; yoga mass which is followed by 2.000 participants; and a variety of based-environment activities, such as mangrove planting, turtle release, the campaign to clean the beach, and so forth.

This event is open to anyone who came to Bali. Various games and exciting contests with interesting prizes, ranging from cash millions of rupiah, hotel vouchers, sailing vouchers on a yacht, to a variety of other interesting prizes abstinence to missed. For the culinary lover and the shopaholic, SVF will spoil your taste and your pocket with the discount festival from the entire of boutique outlets and restaurants at the entire of sanur area, also special price for the various menu options in the area of food festival.

Annual colossal event the Balinese Arts Festival (PKB) XXXI was opened by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the Taman Budaya Denpasar, on June 13^th. This arts festival will take place till July 11^th by putting forward 180 art exhibitions by 14 thousand artists. Yudhoyono stated, cultural art was part of the identity of the nation. “PKB this the real shape to conserve the nation culture. I was always amazed with its creativity that continuously developed,” said he who opened this agenda since the last 5 years. He hoped, PKB strengthened the Balinese position as the centre of tourism, culture and inter-country relations. Yudhoyono said Balinese tourism continue brighten up although the global crisis happening. “Global recession indeed did not yet end but we must have an attitude optimistis,” he said. Bali, according to him, had the potential to become the centre of creative economics that pushed the development of other regional economics.

Before the opening ceremony, in the afternoon, Balinese Governor Made Mangku Pastika released the cultural procession that joined by 3500 artists. The procession was begun in Lapangan Puputan Badung and ended in the area of the Taman Budaya through the distance around two kilometres. Six countries, namely the United States, India, Taiwan, Japan, and Thailand, Mexico- also took part in appearing in this procession. Also joining, the representative from nine provinces in Indonesia including Jakarta, East Java, West Sumatra, Yogyakarta, Lombok Barat, etc. “It showed Bali was the area that was important in the development of the national culture and global,” he said.

Although it was spread out every year, the community’s enthusiasm and tourists, especially in Denpasar, not loose. Thousands of visitors filled up the place road of this cultural procession. In this party you could enjoy the Balinese expression of the community’s art, took the form of the game of children, adolescence that entered the love period through to the “cremation” procession, namely the cremation ceremony for the person who died. The cultural procession also put forward the attraction of art from various other areas in Indonesia, like Lampung, Kalimantan and East Java. From East Java, it was represented by the Reog Ponorogo appearance from Gresik, East java. Reog Singo Murti that was led by Sumiono also attracted attention of the visitor when carrying out the attraction before the procession was begun. Several artists Reog that was cultivation of the Jagad Dumadi Temple in Menganti, Gresik could put forward the barong player’s skills and others.

The friend’s country like Japan then took part in livening up. Participants from the Land of the Cherry Blossom put forward their original culture that is samurai that exhibited the movement technique played the sword. The uniqueness, the Balinese artists accompanied the action of Japanese samurai with the typical Balinese gamelan. Delegation of the Japanese artist emerged in procession gaps that were followed by the group of art from several regencies and the city in the Balinese Province. This group got attention from the spectators after putting forward the attraction of the champion’s Japanese skills used the sword. They appeared with the scene samurai the white group opposed the black group. Preceeded with the appearance of children samurai athletes, they appeared agile played the sword and the stick as the weapon. Afterwards was followed by the appearance of the adolescent samuari athletes and the old generation athlete that one among them was a woman.

This annual arts festival swallowed the cost Rp 3.9 billion and will rise next year to Rp 5 billion. This year was then felt special because the committee returned the opening to the stage of Arda Chandra Taman Budaya Denpasar because of eight years later in was opened only with the parade without the performance of ballet in Lapangan Puputan Renon. The annual agenda from 1978 went a month and this year from June 13^th to July 11^th.

Eleven countries are taking part in the 30th Bali Kite Festival, which kicked off on Friday at Denpasar’s Padanggalak Square and will run for three days.

Participants come from as far afield as Australia, Russia, Taiwan, New Zealand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Germany, the United States, Japan, India and China.

All participants are required to attend a mandatory briefing on July 6th during which rules and guidelines will be distributed to all teams. A very Balinese affair, teams are required to wear traditional dress while competing in the Festival.

Overseas participants are taking part in the “Stone Kites” exhibition class, said I Gusti Putu Rai Andayana, chairman of the festival.

A total of 151 stone kites will flown during the festival, he added.

It is expected that the festival will attract hundreds of teams to compete their kites during the four days festival. The teams that consist of a group of young men completed with gong kebyar (traditional marching gamelan orchestra) will take part of the festival along with their traditional costumes.

This year the festival is showcasing the International Ramayana Festival with participants from Java, Bali, India, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam. The performances will be sprinkled throughout the festival.