Monday, 14 January 2019

Yehmalet, The Unique Lake in Bali


Bali is actually famous for its tourism area.  east’s Bali tourism area namely Karangasem Regency also has amazing tourism like other regency in Bali. Karangasem Regency is not only famous for its religion tourism but this area also has big potential  to develop its natural tourism because in Karangasem Regency the tourist can do traveling to mountain, beach and lake. Now days lake in Bali is very famous spot to visit by local tourist and also foreign tourist.  As we know Bali have 4 popular lake with beautiful view such as : Batur Lake, Beratan Lake, Buyan Lake, And Tamblingan Lake, all lake is located on highland of mountain. But do you know there are beautiful lake in Karangasem regency not located on highland of mountain but that lake located near with the beach and hill. This lake is very unique and it can be best destination in the future.


That lake is called with name Yehmalet,  Yehmalet lake is located in Banjar Yeh Malet, Antiga Kelod Village, Manggis Sub-district, Karangasem Regency. If you go from Denpasar City through by pass Ida Bagus Mantra have the distance of 39 km and If you go from Goa Lawah Temple have the distance of 2.5 km. Yehmalet Lake location is so strategic and near from main road Klungkung – Karangasem and also near with rest area in Banjar Yehmalet. So for tourist who are resting in this place can continue their trip to Yehmalet Lake easily and quickly. This lake has vast area around 7 hectares and according to local people this lake already exist from royal times and this lake also sanctified by local people, so for every tourist who visit this lake very forbidden to speak rude

The uniqueness of this lake is the lake filled with water hyacinth plant that have white and purple flowers.  The water hyacinth plant make as beautiful as possible by local people into I © U shape.  I © U shape can make this lake more beautiful and more interested to visit. Moreover this lake surrounded with 3 hill that are Catu Hill is located in the northeast area , Ceeng Hill is located in the North  area and Tengah Hill is located in the west area. The third of this hill can blend beautifully with view of Yehmalet Lake. The tourists can sit relax on the edge of the lake while enjoying the beauty of nature, or find best spot to take some photos and some selfie. In this lake the tourist not only can take some photos but they are also can do fishing  activity.

In this lake, raft are also rented for tourists who want to enjoy the lake more closely. The raft rental price is around Rp. 10.000 and the ticket price for entering is still free. Because this place is sanctified by local people, therefore for female tourist who are menstruating they are not permitted to ride a raft along the lake because local people think the women are menstruating is dirty and not  holy. It would be better if you come to the Yehmalet Lake in the evening because when evening the tourist can enjoy the beauty of nature accompanied with beautiful sunset.
 Accessibility to the Yehmalet Lake is quite good and in the front of lake there are some stand selling snack and water but for supporting facilities in this place still incomplete like, local people not provide road sign to make tourist easier to find the lake, not yet provide toilet and also not yet provide gazebo as a rest place for tourist.
Until now Yehmalet lake not to get special attention from local government actually this place has big potential to be used as a tourism destination, if there are contribution from local people and local government. It would be better that the local people work together to clean, maintain and take care of Yehmalet Lake and for local government must also develop and promote this Yehmalet Lake through make an article in the website and share information about Yehmalet lake in the social media, in order to many tourist can known  and visit this place. If there are many tourist come to visit Yehmalet Lake it will be bring positive impact for economy of local people who live around Yehmalet Lake.(Wila Pradnya-MBP 5B-03)

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