Traveling is one of the interesting activities in vacation days. We can enjoy our life by visiting many beautiful places in this world. There are many interesting places that called by tourism object; they are in different places in this world. This tourism objects have great panorama or other interesting things.

In Indonesia, we can find many tourism object in every resort or province, they are: Sumatera, Jawa, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Bali, Irian Jaya, etc. The most famous is Bali. It is beautiful island in Indonesia. We can find many beautiful places there, they are: Sanur Beach, Kuta Beach, Tanah Lot, Nusa Dua Beach, Renon, and so on. We can spend our time there because there are many hotels there. Many foreign tourists travel to Bali everyday.

However, there is other beautiful island in Indonesia as tourism object. It is Nias Island. This island also has many interesting places, for example: Lagundri Beach, Bawomataluo, Sorake Beach, Muara Indah, Laowomaru, etc. Beside that, there are many religious and historis places. And also we can watch "Stone Jumping", it is an attraction from Nias community by jumping a stone that it's high is 2 meters. It is amazing.

So, by this site I will guide you to find the best tourism object for traveling. Nias Island is one of the amazing places. However, I also show you the other tourism object in this world so you can enjoy your traveling in vacation. Have a nice day.

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Nias, Hidden Island for Great Surfers

Nias is famous for its waves for surfing. A lot of world champion surfers come to this place to take pleasure in surfing. Even though I’m not a surfer, luckily my pervious job at Medical Teams International (MTI) brought me to Nias. I was assigned to lead a capacity building training to the local staff at the Nias MTI Office. Once I arrived at the airport, I saw a lot of Caucasian guys roaming around with their big and long surfing boards!! I could tell the must be serious surfers. The well-known beach for surfing competition is Sorake and Lagundri Beach.

The venue of the training workshop I led was at Moale Beach. It is only one of the many beautiful beaches in Nias. The training was a fun learning process and everyone seemed to really enjoy the activities.

Besides Banda Aceh, Nias was also affected by the earthquake in 2005. One thing that I found was a lot of dead corals around the beach. This happened after the earthquake and tsunami since the water level is now lower than the corals on the beach. It made me so sad that this natural disaster not only destroyed human life but beautiful nature as well.

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NIAS ISLAND

Nias Island (Tano Niha, in Nias language) lies about 125 km of west Sumatra Island on the Indian Ocean. It is part of North Sumatra Province. The capital city of Nias is Gunungsitoli. However, now Nias is contained part resort, they are: Nias Regency, South Nias Regency, North Nias Regency, West Nias Regency, Middle Nias Regency and Gunungsitoly City. The water surround the island is great for sea activities, such as surfing and scuba diving. The people also have curious culture, which will enrich visitor's heart. The island has some prehistoric remains, which built on megalithic Stone Age, and considered came from the oldest megalithic culture in Indonesia.

The local call their land as Tano Niha or "land of the People", while the people calls them selves as Ono Niha. Ethnically, the Niasers are involved in to the Ptoto-Malay ethnic who once ever get with the Asian Proto-mongoloid world. Niasers speak a kind of language related to Malagasy. Because of the similarity in languages, custom, body size of the Niasers with the Bataks on Sumatra mainland, it is possible that the Niasers have derived from the Bataks.

Surfers will call this island "Paradise on Earth". Together with its beautiful white sandy beach, Lagundri Bay challenge surfers with spectacular waves. In the high season, the waves told to be as high as 3.5 meters. The waves of Sorake Beach on Lagundri Bay have ranked to be within the best ten waves of the world. It is true if some surfers referred of Sorake Beach waves as "the most notorious right-band reef breaks". There are events held for surfers, including the World Professionals Qualifying Series. Surfers are better being ready when your heart cannot leave this island after a visit.

Enormous breakers pummel of Nias Island attracting the best surfers in the world to Lagundri Beach. The unforgiving power attacking the shore seems to have bred the same qualities in the people, whose militaristic culture has fascinated anthropologists for decades. This island lies off West Sumatra in the Indian Ocean. Bawomataluo and Hilisimaetano villages are curious places to visit, where visitors can see performances of traditional war dances and thrilling high- jump sports, i.e. people making dangerous leaps over 2 meter-high stones. Typical scenes are dancers clad in traditional costumes with bird feathers on their heads, a hall for the Chief-of Tribe built on wooden logs with stone chairs weighing up to 18 tons. There are daily flights from Medan to Nias Island.

To reach this place, there is weekly ship from Jakarta (the capital city of Indonesia) to Gunungsitoli; There are Ferries from Sibolga to Gunung Sitoli, Teluk Dalam, or Lahewa every day; Before the crisis hit Indonesia, there is daily flight from Medan to Gunung Sitoli, however it is less frequent nowadays. Gunungsitoli is the capital city of Nias and it is the center of administration and business affairs of regency. There are several travel agencies hotels, public busses and rental cars to support tourism here. There are also some government and private banks available.

Geographically
Nias Island lies on 10 30' north latitude and 970 98' east longitudes. It covers of 5,625 km2 areas, which is mostly lowland area of ± 800 m above sea level.

Population
It is the biggest in a group of islands on Sumatra side that is part of North Sumatra province. This area consists of 131 islands and Nias Island is the biggest. The population in this area is about 639,675 people (including Malay, Batak, and Chinese). Nias has a very unique culture and nature, which is far different from other areas in North Sumatra. This is because of its separate and remote location from the rest of Sumatra.

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