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Indonesia Holiday -  Bali Bird Park

Bali Bird Park is located at Sergeant Major roads Cok Ngurah Gambir, Singapadu village, Sukawati district, Gianyar regency, Bali province, Indonesia. Bali Bird Park opened to the public every day from 8:00 pm until 18:00 pm. The island resort of Bali has a variety of tourist destinations, ranging from natural attractions such as Kuta Beach , majestic mountains, and the West Bali National Park, tourism and cultural history as Tampak siring Palace, Taman Ayun Temple, to art performances and Barong Dance Kecak Dance.

In addition to enjoying a variety of attractions, it is useful also tested the unique tourist attractions of Bali Bird Park or also known as Bali Bird Park. In this place, tourists will find the 'bird paradise' in the middle of an artificial tropical rain forest. Aside from being a recreational vehicle, the location is also ideal for research and education on avian wildlife both in Indonesia and foreign countries. Bali Bird Park was first opened in October 1995. Since then, this bird park continues to grow until it reaches the land area of about 2 hectares. Since its inception, the bird park was built with the concept of botanical garden for a place to live and grow different species of birds from various countries around the world. Therefore, Bali Bird Park is also included in the categories of conservation organizations that are ex-situ, ie artificial ecosystem chosen and built for the purpose of conservation of animals outside their natural habitat.

However, Bali Bird Park managers are still trying to create artificial environments that are similar to rain forest (rainforest), which resembles the original habitat of birds that are kept in the bird park. Originally, the area that has been 'transformed' into an artificial tropical rain forest is wet land. However, thanks to the ingenuity of the designer, paddy fields are then arranged in such a way with a variety of tropical plants (some of which are rare plants) and is equipped with waterfalls, ponds, and artificial fish ponds so that the visitors as if it were in the middle of the jungle . Various types of tropical plants and even deliberately brought in from various areas outside Bali. Apart from the Indonesian tropical plants, plant collections are also imported from Australia, Africa and South America. One of the famous collection of plants is a type of blue Bismarck palm plants grown in the artificial pond.

Visiting Bali Bird Park, tourists can not only see the collection of 1500 birds of 250 species. In this tourist area, you can also see first hand breeding or breeding birds that are rare, ranging from seeing the eggs of birds, hatching process, until the feeding process. The visitors also can take pictures with the birds unique and charming (including watching endemic and rare bird mascot of Bali, the Bali starling).

Today, from about 1,500 birds, 70 percent of whom are local birds of Indonesia, such as virgin, starlings, parrots, bird of paradise, kawao, peacocks, parrots, chickens, Wren, and others. While the other 30 percent are the kinds of birds from abroad. Collections from abroad are from Africa, among other African crown crane, flamingo, gray parrot, and the Congo; of South America such as gold blue Macao, Macao green wing, skarlet Macao, Macao hycin, skarlet ibis, and herons red wings ; from Australia including giant parrots, cockatoos Mitchel, and pelicans, as well as some birds from China, the silver pheasant, partridge brown, and golden pheasant.

Because of the various types and origin of birds, the Bali Bird Park managers classify a bird cage on the basis of national origin of each bird. This is to facilitate the travelers know where it came from birds. Bird cage bird-cage prepared and arranged in such a manner resembling their natural habitat. Especially for poultry breeding, manager of Bali Bird Park has a special place in one large building that has been sterilized. So far, through laboratory Bali Bird Park has managed approximately 20 menangkarkan Bali starling bird whose existence is almost extinct.

Bali Bird Park has around 60 large cage with two Aviary (a large bird cage), Irian Jaya, The Aviary and The Rainforest Aviary. The Irian Jaya Aviary has a length of about 24 meters and 13 meters tall and contains 100 birds of 30 species including the type victoria crowned pigeon which is a type of pigeon in the world. While the Rainforest Aviary has a 62 meters long and 25 meters high. The Rainforest Aviary is home to 100 unique and rare birds from Indonesia. In the vicinity of a giant bird cage, visitors can freely enjoy the beauty of color and his melodic singing birds at close range. A high suspension bridge is also provided to watch the birds that perched in the branches of trees.

Besides in his cage in large aviaries, some birds are also released free in the parks that exist in this location. In the vicinity of an artificial lake, for example, visitors can see a black swan, flaminggo birds, pelicans, and others. As a sweetener scene, in the middle of a giant lotus lake victoria regia have deliberately brought in from Florida, USA.

Not only the chirping of birds, tourists will also be spoiled by the atmosphere of tropical forest that looks natural. In the area of 2 hectares of this, the plants are planted and laid out nicely so that adds comfortable atmosphere to walk the tourists. Plants typical of tropical rain forest in the park include several kinds of palm plants, pandanus Bali, cycads, and various water plants. To add a captivating panorama of the park, this park also installed a variety of garden lights, decorative rocks, sculptures, and walkways that have been hardened. The path is made snaking contours of land, stretching as far as approximately 1 mile.

To further entice the interest of the visitors, since August 2008 and then the manager has also been 'showing off' hundreds of reptiles. No fewer than 200 reptiles of 50 species can be seen in this park, ranging from turtles, cobras, snake malignant (viper), dragons, until a blue tongue lizard reptile species. With the collection of hundreds of reptiles, visitors can not only take pictures or watch birds or clever attractions, but also to chat and take pictures with the reptile in the jungle reptilarium or reptile.

After quite tired around the park, visitors can relax while eating a meal at a restaurant in this park. On the sidelines enjoying the food, the tourists will be treated to the action of the birds that greet with a variety of languages. These clever birds will also be flying around the tables of guests. Guests can take pictures with these tame birds without worrying about pegged. When arrived at the breakfast hour, at this bird park you can enjoy breakfast with the birds in the attraction called "Breakfast with the Birds". Breakfast with the birds would certainly be a pretty memorable experience for visitors.

Travelers who want to see the attraction to feed the birds and reptiles, can visit the Bali Bird Park at certain hours. For example, at 9:45 pm and 13:45 pm is the lunch hour for the Racket-tailed drongos fed at The Rainforest Aviary. At 10.15 until 14:15 pm No action spectacles feeding pelicans around an artificial lake. While every Saturday, at 10.00 pm is the attraction feed the dragons. Apart from feeding the birds and the attraction of dragons, there is also the show titled Free Flight Bird Show, which presents the attractions of eagles flying with guide trainers. These eagles will showcase their skills in the air, grabbed the food, to the ability to count.

Bali Bird Park has been equipped with restaurants, cafes Rainforest, the area of egg painting, photoshop space, and galleries souvenirs. In the gallery these souvenirs, travelers can buy various souvenirs related to birds and various kinds of handicrafts of Bali as a memento or a souvenir.

To guarantee safety and health of poultry collection, post-outbreak of bird flu cases, the manager of Bali Bird Park has tightened bio security system against bird collection. Not only that, the visitors who enter the location of the park is also sterilized by spraying them with disinfectant and stepped on the mat which contains a liquid disinfectant. This is to prevent the possible spread of bird flu virus can be carried by the visitors.

Location Bali Bird Park is easily accessible from the capital city of Bali Province, Denpasar. From this city, tourists can rent a car, motorcycle, or use the services of a taxi and travel to locations with long travel about 20 minutes. While the location of other attractions, Bali Bird Park, among others, can be reached from the Kuta Beach area for 45 minutes, and from the area of Ubud and Sukawati traditional shopping center for 15 minutes.
 
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