Dreamy Beach House Tanjong an escape from the daily grind: Inside the dreamy beach house off the coast of Bali that was designed by the architect of the Four Seasons

A beach house dubbed the ‘ultimate getaway’ off the coast of Bali is making waves with those keen to escape the daily grind and try a different pace of life.

Dreamy Beach House Tanjung on Lembongan Island was designed by the Bali-based architects most famous for the Four Seasons in Bali, and it boasts 270 degree views of the surrounding seascapes.

The villa itself includes five bedrooms and five bathrooms, as well as an infinity pool that curves around the edge of the villa and the natural headland.

The dreamy beach house Tanjung has been marketed at clients living in Western Australia looking for a sea change, with the guide price set around $3 million.Speaking to FEMAIL, agent Jody Fewster said the property is ‘very, very special’.
She highlighted the Balinese landscaped garden, the bamboo components of the space as well as its proximity to a beautiful and secluded beach as the most individual parts of Villa Tanjung.
‘It’s luxury living in old style Bali,’ she said.

Those keen on surfing and snorkelling can enjoy world-class options on the remote island of Lembongan.

The villa also includes a fitness room, alongside an open-plan living and dining area that is perfect for entertaining.

The villa recently won the Bali Architects award for best villa in Bali in the ‘Akomodasi Paraiwisata’ category.

This means that it was the best villa in the tourism category, and can be rented out – rather than just used as a private villa.

The previous family let out the property when they weren’t using it to travellers keen for a taste of luxury, with the full villa costing up to 11 guests $1,400 per night.

The word ‘Tanjung is Bahasa Indonesian for promontory, headland or peninsula. The villa is located on the tanjung between Mushroom Bay and Tamarind Bay.

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Sulawesi art: Animal painting found in cave is 44,000 years old

Sulawesi art: Animal painting found in cave is 44,000 years old – A painting discovered on the wall of an Indonesian cave has been found to be 44,000 years old.  The art appears to show a buffalo being hunted by part-human, part-animal creatures holding spears and possibly ropes.

Some researchers think the scene could be the world’s oldest-recorded story.

The findings were presented in the journal Nature by archaeologists from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

Adam Brumm – an archaeologist at Griffith – first saw the pictures two years ago, after a colleague in Indonesia shimmied up a fig tree to reach the cave passage.

“These images appeared on my iPhone,” said Mr Brumm. “I think I said the characteristic Australian four-letter word out very loud.”

The Indonesian drawing is not the oldest in the world. Last year, scientists said they found “humanity’s oldest drawing” on a fragment of rock in South Africa, dated at 73,000 years old.

What do the drawings show?

The drawings were found in a cave called Leang Bulu’Sipong 4 in the south of Sulawesi, an Indonesian island east of Borneo.

The panel is almost five metres wide and appears to show a type of buffalo called an anoa, plus wild pigs found on Sulawesi.

Alongside them are smaller figures that look human – but also have animal features such as tails and snouts.

In one section, an anoa is flanked by several figures holding spears.

“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” said Mr Brumm. “I mean, we’ve seen hundreds of rock art sites in this region – but we’ve never seen anything like a hunting scene.”

However, other researchers have questioned whether the panel represents a single story – and say it could be a series of images painted over a longer period.

“Whether it’s a scene is questionable,” says Paul Pettitt, an archaeologist and rock-art specialist at Durham University told Nature.
How do we know it’s 44,000 years old?

The team analysed calcite “popcorn” that had built up on the painting.

Radioactive uranium in the mineral slowly decays into thorium, so the team measured the levels of different isotopes of these elements.

They found the calcite on a pig began forming at least 43,900 years ago, and the deposits on two buffalo were at least 40,900 years old.

There are at least 242 caves or shelters with ancient imagery in Sulawesi alone – and new sites are being discovered annually.
How does it compare to other prehistoric art?

It may not be the oldest drawing, but researchers say it could be the oldest story ever found.

“Previously, rock art found in European sites dated to around 14,000 to 21,000 years old were considered to be the world’s oldest clearly narrative artworks,” said the paper in Nature.

The Sulawesi drawings could also be the oldest animal drawing ever found.

Last year, a cave painting in Borneo – thought to be the oldest of an animal – was found to be at least 40,000 years old.

Strict Prevention Of African Swine Flu – African Swine Fever (ASF) or better known as African swine flu is threatening swine farms in Indonesia, especially Bali.

Prevent African Swine Flu, Airport and Port Surveillance Tightened.

DENPASAR – African Swine Fever (ASF) or better known as African swine flu is threatening swine farms in Indonesia, especially Bali.

Anticipating the threat of this ASF disease, the Denpasar Agricultural Quarantine held a coordination meeting with agencies to tighten supervision through the Airport and Port.

Head of the Denpasar Agricultural Quarantine said the Coordination Meeting as a step in uniting perceptions of early prevention efforts for ASF entry.

“This meeting discusses the efforts and strategies taken against the possibilities of potential entry and spread of diseases caused by viruses from the family Asfarviridae (a family of viruses that have only one genus and one species, namely the Asfivirus genus and the African swine fever virus species)”, he explained at the Agriculture Quarantine in Denpasar, Tuesday (12/10/2019).

Swine flu virus particles (influenza type A subtype H1N1).

It also discussed the source of ASF virus transmission that can be transmitted through passenger contaminated with viruses from epidemic countries, such as food ingredients that contain pork, as well as food / catering leftovers from aircraft and cruise ships originating from outbreak countries.

He said, the sources of this transmission became the focus of supervision to filter out the entry of the ASF outbreak to Bali.

With this Coordination Meeting, he continued, his team wanted to sharpen again the quarantine support for preventing the entry of ASF to Bali by involving stakeholders at the Airport, Seaport, Local Government, and managing aircraft and marine waste in the landfill (TPA) and breeders pigs around landfill in particular.

“The key to the success of ASF prevention in Bali is strong coordination”, he stressed while chairing the Coordination Meeting.

African Swine Fever (ASF) or better known as African swine flu.

Meanwhile the Chairperson of the Bali branch of the Indonesian Veterinarian Association (PDHI) Prof. I Kt Puja revealed, the most effective thing to do now is to prevent the entry of the disease since there is no cure and vaccine yet.

With this coordination meeting, it is hoped that the ASF virus filter that enters Bali can be layered and prevention efforts can provide maximum results.

Namely acting as resources were the Chairperson of the Bali Branch PDHI, the Denpasar Veterinary Center and from the Denpasar Agricultural Quarantine in the presence of Regional Government Agencies and Stakeholders who were directly involved both at the Airport and Sea Port.

Confirmed, the status of ASF disease that has become epidemic in several neighboring countries and the last in September 2019, such as the closest country of Indonesia, namely Timor Leste, has been established as a country with this one epidemic.

Strict Prevention Of African Swine Flu

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