Year: 2015

Travel

Tourist Attractions In Indonesia That You Must See Before You Die

Indonesia is a country with wide cultural diversity, a great history, and a huge population. Indonesia will always fascinate you no matter what you do. Whether visiting on a budget or staying in a great Bali villa or even if you just sit in nature and experience the beauty of the country.

To list the ten must-see attractions in the country can be a very tough job as it is very hard to rate one destination above the other. With the natural and cultural diversity and the ancient history, Indonesia is in the abundance of tourist sites. But one cannot see each of them. Thereby, to make your job easier, here are the ten most popular and worth visiting sites in Indonesia.

  1. Bali

Many people rush to Bali thinking about the warm sand and the blue water, but this place is much more than that. Apart from beaches, it has a great number of cultural spots and landmarks that should be visited. Kuta is by far the best beach here, with the highest attraction. Nusa Dua can be an option for those wanting to visit a quieter beach. If you are there for the culture, you must visit Sanur.

  1. Mount Bromo

There are various volcanic mountains on the southern belt of the country, the Tengger Massif, but Mt. Bromo is one of the most prevalent ones. It offers outstanding landscapes to the tourists. When traveling to the area, one can stay in the mountain town, located nearby, and hike up to the viewpoints. Those will be the most amazing view that the chain has to offer. You can also climb to the top and witness the interior of the beast.

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Health

Staying Safe is as Important as Staying Healthy

Use Electricity Safely

Health is not always just about the absence of sickness and disease; it is also about staying safe and avoiding harm.  Most electricians have experienced times when they’ve been called to a home where the wiring was not in a safe condition through age or damage by pests such as rodents.  Wiring that is in the ceiling cavity is exposed to very high temperatures that help to degrade the covering. That makes it dangerous to your health as it can short out and start a fire.

The same thing can happen when mice or rats chew the wires, especially if they make a nest in the ceiling with bits of paper, dried grass or scraps of cloth, all of which can catch fire quickly from a spark.  If you live in an older home, it would be wise to have the electric wires in the ceiling checked out.  If they need replacing it is an almost sure bet that the wires in the walls will also be in a bad condition. These too, should be replaced.

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Design, DIY

10 Tips to Make Your Bedroom Seem Larger

Bedroom Seem Larger

Sometimes, no matter how large a room is, it seems too small.  The trouble with a large room is that often it gets stuffed with things that should really not be in it – and that most interior designers like Australian wiz Sam Sorgiovanni would ban. The end result is that there is no room to move around and when you walk in, you can’t wait to get out again. If your bedroom is like that, here are some tips to make it seem larger.

  • Make sure the wall colours are light. Dark colours make a room seem really small and dim. Light colours reflect the light and make it seem larger. Note: light doesn’t mean neutral, even though those shades are usually light. You can have light aqua, light green, light yellow or light-almost-anything to get a larger effect.

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Events, Exhibitions, Visual Arts

Karl Nawrot: Mind Walk #1

Please join us for the launch of ‘Mind Walk #1’, an exhibition by Seoul based artist and web designer Karl Nawrot.

The exhibition reveals Nawrot’s aesthetic sensibility as a curious union of the macabre and the childlike, offering an overview of his practice through a dense presentation of crude monochrome prints. These include representations of various simple models which in some cases exist as works in themselves: for example in an architectural structure derived from Le Corbusier’s Dom-ino House the minimal staircase is replaced by a cave.

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