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Bali Mask Tattoo Designs

There are many things you can do when on vacation in Bali, in addition to beautiful beaches and the waves are called the surfers around the world, most tourists come to make a tattoo on their body as a souvenir. If you open Google and type the keywords “tattoo bali” there will be hundreds of tattoo gallery website that provides various kind of tattoo do you want such as tribal tattoos, Ethnic tattoos, tattoo designs and many others.

One of the tattoo artist the most visited in Bali is an artist Putu Nuarsa AKA  Liong. Liong tattoo galery is located at Hanoman street, Ubud. Tattoo galery liong always attended tattoo lovers, both local residents of Bali and foreign tourists who were vacation in ubud.  Liong tattoo gallery opened since 1985 earlier today and become one of the studio’s most famous tattoo on the Bali Island.

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Fort Marlborough Castle, foto by Zoilus Sitepu

Marlborough castle built  in 1713-1719 by the East India Company (EIC), during the reign of Governor Joseph Callet as British fortress. The fort is located near the beautiful long beach of Bengkulu province. The building comprise of a JAIL, an Ammunition Storage, and army housing, there is also a tunnel begin from inside going through outside the Castle. Fortress Marlborough is the largest fortress ever built by the English people during colonialism in Southeast Asia.

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Dian Al Mahri Mosque with Famous Italian Architect

Dian al mahri mosque that was the name of this mosque. Mosque with cupola made by gold. This mosque was built on land not less than 70 acres by a woman entrepreneur from Serang Indonesia called Hj. Dian Djuriah Maimun Al Rashid in 2001. Previously he had bought the land for the construction of this mosque in 1996.

This mosque before only for the individual, but over time the mosque was finally opened to the public on December 31, 2006. This mosque can accommodate about 20,000 people.

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Borneo Tattoo designs

On the last posts i have shown you the Mentawai tribe Tattoo as the world’s oldest Tattoos.   And now I’ll show another tattoo culture in Borneo Indonesia.

Borneo is the third largest island in the world. The Dayak people reside here for centuries, they believe that spirits are in everything around them. For this reason they believe that by tattooing an object or creature on them they can draw energy from these spirits. In the Dayak culture, tattoo shows the status of one’s wealth. More tattooed, more rich. The sachem of Dayak Taman(the indigenous people of Borneo), said, in the Dayak tattoo there other aspects than the symbol of the social strata, the tattoo is a tribute to the ancestral.

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Mentawai-Tattoo Designs

The term “Tattoo” is taken from the word “Tatau” in the language of Tahiti. Tattoo was first recorded by Western civilization in James Cook’s expedition in 1769. According to some researchers, the oldest tattoos found on Egyptian mummies from the 20th century BC. But, the art of body painting found in almost all parts of the world with a variety of designs and patterns.

Tattoos Egypt, which estimated the oldest tattoo was discovered in 1300 BC. whereas the Mentawai been tattooing their bodies since their arrival to the west coast of Sumatra in the Age of Metal, 1500 BC – 500 BC. Proto-Malays nation came from mainland Asia (Indochina).

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