Ketapang is the name of location where Hotel Ketapang Indah is located, while the word Ketapang itself is a name of a tree. Located absolute beachfront, overlooking the Bali Strait, due to the East which provides an excellent spot for watching the sunrise, with a range of facilities and leisure options. Decorated traditionally in Balinese style and furnished with the local materials, it offers a pleasant accommodation, a mouth-watering restaurant, and a relaxing swimming pool.

Not far from the hotel, on the hilly side with its quiet and natural surrounding of private plantation, the Bayulor Guest House provides a tranquil, relaxing, and peaceful atmosphere which makes it an ideal place for total relaxation or for family gathering.

For further discovery of some enchanting treasure and the beauty of nature, there are spectacular places such as Ijen Crater, the majestic snorkelling, diving, and fishing spot at Menjangan or Tabuan Island, Baluran National Park, and many more. These places are only an hour drive from the hotel.

Sunrise in Bali Strait		Pool in the Evening

An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter scale rattled an area 159 km southeast of Polewali district in South Sulawesi on Sunday, an official said.

The epicenter of the tremblor which shook the area at 2 p.m. was traced at 4.84 degrees south latitude and 124.06 degrees east longitude and located in a depth of 77 km, a Lampung meteorological and geophysics agency (BMG) official said here Sunday.

Aftershocks will be felt along Sumatra's west coast for the next two weeks as a result of Wednesday's earthquake, a seismologist said Saturday.

The tectonic earthquake measuring 7,9 on the Richter Scale which shocked Bengkulu province on Wednesday (Sept 12) has caused more than rp500 billion in material loss, a statement said.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his wife Mrs. Ani Yudhoyono left for Bengkulu at 7 am on Monday to observe affected areas in Bengkulu and West Sumatra that were hit by a quake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale last Wednesday afternoon.

Accompanied by Minister for Public Works Djoko KIrmanto, Minister for Health Siti Fadilah Supari, Commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces Air Marshal Djoko Suyanto, cabinet Secretary Sudi Silalahi, the president left Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force base on board of a special aircraft, Boeing 737-500.

Social Affairs Minister Bachtiar Chamsyah assured here on Sunday that there was enough supply of rice for quake victims including for those in Bengkulu.

"Rice supply is secured. The problem is transporting and distributing them," he said after meeting with Bengkulu governor Agusrin Maryono Najamuddin.

Another aftershock rattled West Sumatra's west coastal areas at around 4 p.m on Sunday. The tremor that had its epicenter southwest of Bengkulu made many residents to run out of their homes for fear.

Meteorology and Geophysics Agency staff in Padang Panjang Fitri said as many as 18 tremors had been recorded since 00.00 hours, four of them measuring four to five on the Richter scale. She said the intensity of the aftershocks that followed three major earthquakes last week had dropped and therefore she appealed to the people not to panic.

Sukamade Turtle Beach Around 78 km south of Banyuwangi with its deep turquoise water, 250 kg sea turtles and a long beach, surrounded by vast cocoa, coffee and rubber plantations, are to be found here.

A heavy cloud darkened Sukamade Turtle Beach one evening in Banyuwangi, East Java, in early June.

Stars could be glimpsed occasionally, but they soon disappeared as the clouds rolled across the sky and the beach turned black.

In the central Javanese city of Solo, a statue of Gesang Martohartono looks over the gently flowing Bengawan Solo, or Solo  River.

It was the famous Indonesian singer-songwriter Gesang, who composed the celebrated Indonesian melody "Bengawan Solo" during  World War II -- when the country was under Japanese occupation.

"Bengawan Solo, this is a song of your history. People have been fascinated with this great river since ancient times, Around  the source of the Solo River, there are a thousand mountains, and the river flows all the way to the sea.

Banyuwangi is the most eastern regency of east java and it is a very easy for one who wants to go to Bali. Just 30 minutes until 1 hour with Ferry (Boat).  It is surrounded by mountainous and woody areas to the west; by sea to the east and south.

Tourism sector in Regency Banyuwangi have opportunity that is enough prospective to be developed to to become industry Pariwisata capable to in competition with Pariwisata in other area even manca state, this be reasonable, because the wisata object enough having immeasurable and have special characteristic and value is more compared to with other area.