Some Tips For Traveling With Your Dog

Just because you have a dog doesn’t mean you have to stay home all the time.  If you plan ahead and take a little care, it is easy and fun to travel with your dog.
Here are some tips to make the trip easier on both you and your pet:

1.    Get your dog used to riding in the car by taking him on short trips.  Go to fun places like the dog park, the fast food drive through (where you can feed him bits of meat from your burger), or to visit friends.  You want him to think that trips in the car are fun.  You don’t want your dog to think that all car trips end up at the vet’s office.

2.    If your dog tends to get carsick, don’t feed him the morning of the trip.  Having your dog travel with an empty stomach will help to prevent any car sickness.

3.    Bring plenty of water and a water dish along.  You will need to give your dog periodic drinks of water when you stop for a rest.  It will be easier to get your dog to drink if it is familiar water from home.  Water in different places often smells or tastes differently, and your dog may not want to drink it.

4.    Be sure to pack your dog’s food, treats, favorite bed, toys, and leash.

5.    If your dog uses a crate, bring that along too.  If you don’t have a large vehicle, you can buy crates that fold up.  When you get to your destination, you can put your dog in his crate while you go somewhere that you can’t bring him along.

6.    How should your dog travel in the car?  Some dogs like to sit or lay on the seat, so bring a blanket to protect the upholstery.  Other dogs may need to be kept in a crate in the car.  Be sure the crate can’t slide around and scare the dog while you’re driving.   You can also purchase dog seat belts to keep your dog safe while sitting in the car.

7.    Make a stop every few hours to walk your dog and give him some water.  Some dogs are frightened by the noisy trucks driving by, so try to walk in a quiet area.  Be a good citizen and bring plastic bags along to pick up the mess.

8.    If your dog is anxious about staying in a hotel or strange house at your destination, he might not eat or drink.  You don’t want him to get dehydrated, so be sure to get him to drink, at least.  You can mix chicken broth or gravy into the dog’s water.  That will usually get him to lap it right up.  You can mix chicken broth or gravy into the food too.

The first trip will be the hardest, because your dog will not realize that you are coming back.  With the first trip behind you, if you have taken the time to make sure it is pleasant for your dog, future traveling with your dog should be a breeze.

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Mentawai Island: The Ultimate Diversity Of The Hidden Paradise

Take a trip into the wild with an adventure to the Mentawai islands. Be surrounded by tropical rainforests and immerse yourself in the traditions of the local people. While the physical distance between the mainland and Mentawai is not great, this remains one of the most isolated places in Indonesia, and was only subject to outside influences at the start of the 20th century. A long way from the world of shopping malls and theme parks, this is where travellers come to get a truly off the beaten track adventure.  

Located off the West coast of Sumatra, the Mentawai archipelago includes four municipalities, Sirebut, Sipora, North Pagai and South Pagai. Sirebut is the biggest of the islands and remains largely covered with tropical rainforest. From the moment you arrive on Sirbeut and see the white coral beaches, ancient rainforests and hear the cheeky black gibbons playing in the trees you’ll find it hard to resist falling in love with the place. This island is home to a rich array of bio-diversity which has earned it designation as a UNESCO biosphere reserve. 

The remote location of these islands means that the Mentawai people have had very little contact with the outside world. The archipelogo is thought to have broken off from the rest of Sumara about 500,000 years ago and it is only since the 20th century that outside influences began to have an impact on the local people. Today, the Mentawai still abide by traditional practices and live largely off the land. Local people have a strong spiritual relationship with the forest with a belief system that emphasizes harmony with creation. 

It is believed people first came to inhabit these islands at least several thousand years ago. Most anthropologists classify the Mentawai people as Protomalay which means they have a mostly Neotlithic culture but have not been effected by Buddhism, Islam or Hinduism. 

Tatoos are an important symbol in Mentawai culture and reflect maturity, manhood and status. The art of this body painting has been inherited from ancient ancestors and the ink is made from natural fibres. 

The biggest town on Sirebut is Muara Sirebut on the southeast coast. This is the major point of entry for tour groups from the mainland. From here, you can travel with a with a local guide and trek inland to some of the Mentawai villages. If your bahasa is good enough, chat to the locals and enjoy their hospitality. 

The other big attraction for visitors to these islands is the world class surfing. With some of the best surfing conditions in the world, monster waves and swells that remain all year round, this is ranked by serious surfers as a must visit destination. 


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6 Cool Water Tourism in Indonesia, Which Should be a World Tour

This is the sixth best water attractions owned by Indonesia. you must see it!

1. Derawan Island

located in Derawan Islands, District Derawan Berau Regency, East Kalimantan. In the surrounding waters are known as marine parks and diving tours (diving) with a depth of about five meters. There are a wide variety of marine life here, such as squid (cuttlefish), lobsters, fish, tube (ghostpipe fish), octopus (octopus bluering), nudibranchs, sea horses (seahorses), eels band (ribbon Eels) and fish skorpion (scorpionfishes ). you could also see turtles directly.

2. Memoramo Waterfall

The waterfall is located in Cape Nature Reserve Forest area Peropa which have an area 38 937 ha. Precisely located in East Konawe or about 60 km from the city of Kendari, the capital of Southeast Sulawesi Province. Serene atmosphere and beauty wrapped in a light breeze flow is so cool is the amazing gift of nature for tourists who bekunjung. In the area of tourism is also a waterfall there is a potential wealth of natural stone such as marble. It is estimated that, overall content of the marble 860 billion cubic meters of range. Marble in this area is one source of the world's largest marble reserves.

3. Belitung

Rocky granite artistic, clear sea water, and sandy beaches are really white, not found anywhere. if you ever watch movies " Laskar Pelangi", here is where filmed

4. Senggigi

Stretches of white sands, situated in West NusatenggaraVery beautiful underwater scenery, and tourists can do snorkling much as you like because the wave is not too large. Ketengah towering coral reefs cause waves in the middle of the burst

5.Tanjung Bira

It is located in Southeast Sulawesi BulukumbaCape pleased with the famous white sand beaches are beautiful and fun. The water is clean, good place for swimming and sunbathing.Here we can enjoy the sunrise and sunset with a gleaming light nenbersit on white sand along tens of kilometers.

6. Cukang Taneuh ( Green Canyon )

waw, that's really amazing isn`t it?I guarantee you will not regret visiting the attractions that exist in Indonesia.

so, do not hesitate to choose Indonesia as a tourist place, because a lot of amazing things that exist here. so let's VISIT INDONESIA !!

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Indonesia is a country very rich in culture, this is an advertisement visit Indonesia in 2010 that describes some of the existing culture in Indonesia..
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sight seeing in this video:Bali: ubung terminal, Ngurah Rai International Airport, Dreamland, Balongan Beach, ubud, kuta, Sukawati market, Tanah LotWest Java: Green Canyon (Pangandaran), ATV (lembang,bandung), parasailing (puncak)East Java: Bromo, Tengger, reog ponorogoJogjakarta: Ma lioboro, paris (South 'Beach), Keraton JogjakartaJakarta: Monas, Kota Tua, Bundaran HI, museums Fatahillah, mille (duh)NTT: komodo islandSulawesi: Bunaken / Wakatobi (not sure)
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5 Typical Indonesian Unique Ceremony

Indonesia is a country with rich culture very much, these are some of the unique cultures that exist in Indonesia

1.Ritual Tiwah

Central Kalimantan 

Tiwah ritual is a procession of relatives delivers ancestral spirits who have passed away into the afterlife by way of cleansing and moving the remains from the grave to a place called stumbled.Ritual tiwah Karen made a tourist attraction unique and peculiar many foreign tourists are interested in this ceremony is only done by the citizens of Central Kalimantan Dayak.

2.Kebo-Keboan

 Banyuwangi, Central Java

kebo-keboan is a ceremonial procession which is held every year by residents Alasmalang. This ceremony was originally performed to invoke rain during drought, with rainfall means that farmers can grow crops soon.The climax is a procession plowing and planting rice seedlings in paddy fields. People who act like a buffalo had been able to trance and pursue anyone who tries to take the rice seedlings are planted. Alasmalang residents tried to snatch the rice seedlings, as is believed to be used as a trade-off or to gain custody.

3.Adu Kerbau (Mapasilaga Tedong)

Toraja

ADU Kerbau interspersed with cuts of buffalo-style procession of Toraja, Ma'tinggoro tedong, namely buffalo with a machete and slashed with just one cut down. in the afternoon, the party fights very crowded because the buffalo is a buffalo pitted males who already have experience of fighting dozens of times.Before pitted, conducted parade buffalo. There kebo bule or albino, some have black spots on his back called salepo and black on the back (Lontong Boke). Type the last price is the most expensive, can be above Rp 100 million. There is also a male buffalo that has been castrated, allegedly tastes more savory meat.

4.Rambu Solo

Toraja

Rambu Solo is a party or ceremony grief / death. Customs which have been inherited by the Toraja people were hereditary. For families who abandoned the party shall make a final bow as a sign of the elders who have gone.After passing a series of events, the elders in the stretcher using Tongkonan (a kind of typical Toraja traditional house) to the tomb in the cliffs in the cave. Grave cemetery name is Londa.What was unique ceremony solo signs is the creation of a wooden puppet who made very similar to the one person who died and placed on the cliffs. Interestingly, the doll's face were increasingly similar to those who died.

8.Ngaben

Bali

Ngaben is burning or cremation ceremony of sacred Hindu temple.In Ngaben procession, when the fire starts up, the flames gradually be enlarged and began to flare lit figure of the corpse. Over time the blaze started to burn his body is believed to be releasing all worldly ties of the dead man. If the bond despite the secular, the more it opens the opportunity to see the truth and sanctity of the Divine in the natural immortality there.A few days before the ceremony Ngaben carried out, the family of the deceased assisted by the community to make "Bade and Lembu" a very stately wooden, colored paper and other materials."Bade and Lembu" This is where the body which later burned.

Mmmm, I think this is enough, in fact there are many cultures that exist in Indonesia, but now it promptly at 2 am in my house and time for me to sleep. maybe on the other time I will write about other interesting cultures in Indonesia, my beloved country.bye.