Sumba island is an island in East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. Its area 10,710 km2, and its highest point is Mount Wanggameti National Park (1,225 m). Sumba bordering on Sumbawa in the Northwest, with Flores in the Northeast, with East Timor in the East, and Australia to the South and Southeast. Sumba Strait lies to the North of the island. To the East lies the Savu Sea Sea and Indian Ocean in the South and West.
The island is made up of four districts: the West Sumba Regency Southwest Sumba Regency, Central Sumba Regency East Sumba Regency. Pangkal Pinang is the largest city, the capital of East Sumba Regency. The city is also the airport and sea port which connects Sumba island with the other islands in Indonesia.
Like a cluster of islands in Indonesia, Sumba island also contains the potential of tourism of the coast and the sea, even exclusive. Beautiful nan exclusive recognized Nihiwatu Beach world it is. Nihiwatu Beach layout, remote, far away from everywhere and only Nihiwatu resort guests can access it. The beach is attractive to many tourists who want to enjoy a beach vacation. Nihiwatu beach is located in the West Sumba District, 30 km from the town of Waikabubak to SW.
Nihiwatu Resort guests who will enjoy the beach holiday is meant, they
could traverse from Ngurah Rai Bali, then it will be picked up the
aircraft chartered the luxury resort, next to traverse a road by car,
for about 1.5 hours.
Besides the potential of the beach and sea, art and cultural potential of Sumba island is also very large, given the community on the island of Sumba, still lives in the tradition of their ancestors hereditary. Call one of the cultural arts event is Pasola. Pasola is the art of silat and horseback riding are seeing hundreds of horsemen. The riders will climb on their horses, then gather together in one area, only to then mutual fighting and martial arts expertise they memertontonkan with riding. The event is not rare Pasola claimed the lives of riders as well as his horse. Compulsory annual event be pasola, as a sign of the rice planting season begins. Droplets of blood from the battle of silat riders and their horses, which fell to the ground, believed to bring fertility and prosperity of their rice crops, so that it can harvest abundant.
Besides the Pasola, there are still seabreg Sumba cultural and other rituals continue to be performed until now. While the shape of their culture, it can be seen from the funeral People of Sumba, marked in the form of large chunks of stone weighing approximately 6 tons for corpse, and keeper of the mausoleum when burying corpses of people who died in this, a number of animals such as horses, dogs, pigs join the buried to accompany his soul into later life.
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