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Raba-Dompu Village
[BN6]
Famous for the Mbojo woven cloth that it produces, Raba-Dompu people
still weave these beautiful cloths in the traditional manner, making
products or high quality and of exquisite design.
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- Donggo Village [BL5]
Donggo, 40 km by road, is the oldest village in Bima. The inhabitants
here have customs and traditions which differ from those of other
villages. They have preserved a unique ethnic identity, wear distinctive
black clothing, observe their own hierarchical order and build their
own traditional houses. Donggo villagers earn their living by farming
and cultivating in irrigated field on hilly slopes. They produce a
high quality woven cloth in a process of making thread, designing
pattern and dyeing material still done traditionally. Other crafts
produced here include writing Sanskrit manuscripts onto tablets of
stone.
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- Mada Pangga [BK6]
With its tropical forest, Mada Pangga is an area of great natural
beauty. Many teak (jati) trees grow in this lush rainforest which
is also filled with animals and colorful birds.
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- Mount Sangeang [BR2]
A smoking conical volcano jutting 2000 m out of the sea off the north-east
coast, Mount Sangeang's slopes and its surroundings are popular with
scientists seeking knowledge about our natural environment. A beautiful
place encircled by a clear blue sea, Mount Sangeang can be easily
reached by boat or perahu from the Bima area.
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- Sape [BQ7]
Sape is on the main east-west tourist route and 4 km from the port
(Labuhan Sape) for passengers to visit nearby Komodo Island, famous
for its dragons, the largest reptile. The culture in this eastern
region is different from elsewhere. The beaches to the north from
Lamere to Matambolo are good for swimming, sunbathing and watching
the sun rise.
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- Wawo-Maria area [BO6]
Located on the tourist route connecting Bima with Komodo Island, the
Wawo-Maria area makes products of high quality and of exquisite cloth
design. Maria is noted for its traditional "lumbung" of
rice barns (lengge) gathered together on a hill outside the village.
Nearby at Wawo, lies the Dutch colonial recreation site Oi Wobo. It
has a Dutch heritage manor (Pesanggrahan Wawo) and a swimming pool
fed by spring water. Its also provide tourist accommodation
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- Tambora National Park [BO2]
The North Tambora Wildlife Reserve (80,000 ha) and South Tambora Hunting
Park (30,000 ha) are two protected sites located in the north-west
of Tambora / Sanggar Peninsular.
The area is very mountainous and is dominated by Mount Tambora (2,851
m) an old originally almost 4000 m high volcano which exploded in
1815 in what is known as the greatest eruption in modern geological
times, affecting climate as far as Europe (such having snow in June).
Both reserves are covered with primary forests dominated by Duabanga
moluccana trees, although on the southern slopes of Mount Tambora
large parts of the original forest have been logged. These southern
slopes are covered by alang-alang grass. The rest of the area consists
of a vast open area, dissected by seasonally dry riverbeds.
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- Wadu Pa'a [BM4]
This is an important archaeological site. It is named Wadu Pa'a or
"Candi Tebing" (Buddhist temple by a chisel-shaped wall).
It is located in the area of Sowa village and can be reached by boat
from Bima in about 1 hour. The site dates back to 1733. There are
carved rocks with inscriptions (prasasti) written on them in two locations
Kompleks I and II relating to Hindu can be made out. The site was
excavated in 1984, just offshore there is a freshwater spring in the
sea.
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