Lombok Island Information
Welcome to Lombok
A Ultimate Tropical Paradise….!!!.
Lombok, is Bali’s neighboring island in the east, It possesses its own different charms. The Sasak is the majority ethnic group whose customs, language and tradition are unique. The Sasak features the blend of Caucasian face, short neck, straight hair and brown skin are dominantly Moslem and the majority of the island’s inhabitants.
The tourism on the island was widely introduced in 1980s until when the island had a little experience of visitors and even today majority of the islanders are unaffected by tourism. The island has surfeit holiday destinations with unspoiled beach, indigenous ethnic settlements, quiet back water villages, craft villages, beautiful scenery and rice terraces carved into landscape of stunning beauty. The Gilis (small islands) surrounding Lombok are the underwater paradise for divers and snorkeling delights.
Lombok is not Bali. The island is only 20-odd km apart separated by a deep strait called Lombok Starit. It is here that Alfred Russel Wallace who was a little known Naturalist drew his famous line. Now is known, as Wallace Line. It starts Southeast of the Philippines, passing between the land of Mindanaos and Sangihe, runs south between Kalimantan and Sulawesi and then out into the Indian Ocean after dissecting Bali and Lombok. This line marks the center of transitional (also called Wallacea) and evolutionary zone where the lands, flora and fauna of subtropical Southeast Asia make a sudden and quiet dramatic transition into the earth, plan and animal typical of Australia.
Wallace explained, due to the depth of Lombok Strait, the speciaes have never managed to cross between the islands. While the strait between Bali and Java reach depth of only 200 meters, those between Bali and Lombok (the line) reach depth from 200 to staggering 3000 meters. Where, otherwise the island of Lombok may have bathed in relative obscurity for many more years. With Wallace line, Lombok was not only on the world map but the island would forever be connected to the most epoch making advances in the theories about the evolution of the life on our planet.
