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Lombok's terracotta pottery is gaining an international reputation for its quality workmanship. In the village of Banyumulek (clear - water) you can see potwomen painstakingly molding vases, jugs and paltes in exactly the same way as they have been crafted for centuries. Visit Sukarare renowned for its traditional weaving, the techniques of which have been handed down from mother to daughter for generations. Each piece of cloth is woven on a handloom in establish patters and colors. Some fabrics are woven in as many as four direction and interwoven with gold thread. They can be so complicated that they take one person three months to complete.
Then move on to Kuta beach - the magnificent south coast - where you can have your lunch (not included) in a local restaurant close to the beach. Continue on to Sade, a hamlet built in the traditional Sasak style. Unlike the people in Java, who are called 'Javanese', and the people in of Bali are called 'Balinese', but the people of Lombok are called "Sasak". The houses are made entirely of adobe, roofed with alang-alang (a type of long grass). Your last stop is Narmada summer palace, built in 1727 by an old Balinese king. He was too frail to climb up to the summit of Mt. Rinjani to make his offering, so he had a garden laid out around a spring as a miniature replica of the volcano and the lake.
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