The Island of A Thousand Mosques

     The Great Mosque of Central Lombok

Lombok island is well-known as island with a thousand mosques. In Indonesia itself there are many mosques everywhere, but especially in Lombok almost in every village there is at least one mosque. As we know that the majority of Lombok people are moslem that is the reason why Lombok has many mosque everywhere.

In 2015, Lombok island is chosen as one of halal tourism destination in the world. So as an Indonesian especially as Sasaknese (Original resident  of Lombok) I’m really proud of it. Lombok is chosen as hallal tourism destination in the world because in neraly all tourism places in Lombok such as Kuta, Selong Belanak beach, and Ann beach have at least one worshipping place. So it eases every moslem in the world if they want to have a vacation in Lombok island.

Altough the people of  Lombok are all religious, they keep sticking of culture such as Presean , Nyongkolan, Maling etc. So these are the beuty of Lombok and also makes Lombok different than the other islands in Indonesia. If you come to Lombok you will see amny difffernt culture everywhere. Even when you are on the way sometimes you may see crowded people playing traditional music instruments. It is called Nyongkolan.

Nyongkolan is one of famous culture in Lombok island. It is held when a couple get married, in order to tell people about their wedding, they hold a cermony called Nyongkolan by walking on the road on foot while some people playing traditional instruments. So when this traditional culture is being held usually many people would come out from their house to watch and know is getting married.

If you want to visit Lombok don’t forget to bring your camera because there are  many things in Lombok that you need to capture. Beautiful scanary, beautiful coast, uniquely variuos culture, and also me. Hehehe... J

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