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Lovina Beach

Lovina resort is known for its beautiful beach with calm water, black sand, its underwater coral stone and various kinds of tropical fish. Since the sea water is mostly calm, Lovina beach becomes an ideal place for marine activities like: diving, snorkeling, fishing, sailing, swimming or just immersing in the water.

Added to all those attractions is the existence of flocks of dolphins in their original habitat. One can watch hundreds of this friendly fish in the morning, at about 1 km off - shore.

Watch the jumping dolphins with range of mountains as the back¬ground at the South, the reddish sky about sunrise time, all of which can offer a very interesting view to visitors.

Lovina resort also has some other interesting places nearby, like Banjar hot spring, the Buddhist Vihara, Gitgit and Singsing water falls as well as some traditional villages with their simple-way of life to see (ecotourism).

Location

Formally, this tourist resort is called : "Kalibukbuk tourist resort" however it is known more as "Lovina" Beach.

This resort covers two districts i.e : Buleleng district consists of villages of : Pemaron, Tukad Mungga, Anturan and Kalibukbuk, while the other district is : Banjar consists of the villages of Kaliasem and Temukus. Both of the districts belong to Buleleng regency. The centre of this tourist resort is located about 10 km from Singaraja, the capital town.

Facility

Being the centre of tourist activities in Buleleng regency, Lovina Beach is completed with sufficient facilities like: star and non star hotel accommodations, home stays and bungalows, restaurants, souvenir shops, transport companies, money-changers, tourist information service, telephone/communication kiosks, parking lot etc.

Tourist Visit

As the leading tourist resort in Northern - part of Bali, Lovina has the biggest number of visitor arrival to Buleleng and based on the tourist survey done in 1992, it was about 90 % of the whole number of visitors visiting Buleleng spent most of their time at Lovina.

Description

There are no definite evidences or sources of information about the origin of the name "Loving" however, based on the information given by the sons of the late Anak Agung Panji Tisna, the descendant of the King of Buleleng who was also a well known man-of-letters, the name "Lovina" was given by the late upon a property under his name located at Kaliasem village on which he built a bungalow as resting place.

It was said that the name Lovina taken from a small hotel in India named : "Lafeina" where he spent his night and wrote a book titled "Ni Ketut Widhi"., which was then translated into several foreign languages.

To remember the small hotel in India, he then gave his property a name "Lovina". However there is a different version telling that the name "Lovina" was given, because there were two "santen" trees planted by his son which then grew embracing each other and that "Lovina" in Latin means "love each other".

The name "Lovina" was then translated by Mr. I Ketut Ginantra, the regent of Buleleng (1988-1993) as an acronym of "Love" and "Ina" means "Love Indonesia".


Source: Bali Goverment Tourism Office
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