North Lombok is one of the the best agriculture product you may find a lot, there are so many fruit and trees born on this place cause the location on the feet of Rinjani Mountain.
As we know, North Lombok was be the best tourism destination because of three Gilis ( Trawangan, Meno and Air ) which has a Million tourism every years and gift a huge devisa to the government.
North lombok district is indeed has various attractive tourism objects which worth visited. One of them is sire beach. In Sire beach, you can spend times with family, and if the weather is good, you could see Rinjani mount from different angle.
In this beach you can also do many interesting activities, such as canoeing, snorkeling, or swimming
using used tire. If you don’t bring equipments to do those activities,
you can rent it at rental place near the beach. In the afternoon, you
can also fishing or seeing seagull chasing the waves.
Around the beach there are palm trees line up orderly and the green
grass which look like a green carpet. This condition makes Sire beach
fit to be family recreation place.
Sire beach is included to be a favorite place to visit for domestic
visitors to spend their holidays. The beach which located in north west
of Lombok island serves a beautiful view including the view of Rinjani mount
which can be seen in the east side. This beach extends in 3,8 km with
curving coast line. The sand is not completely white but it has soft
texture. The waves are calm, makes it perfect to do water tourism.
If you want to stay in, there are accommodations around it which have
view direct to the beach. There you can spend the nights by listening
soft sound of waves, and the morning, you can enjoy the sunrise. You can
also do golfing here, since there is golf field nearby the beach.
Beside as a recreation place, Sire is also a place to hold people’s
entertainment events and traditional ceremony. On certain events, there
is dangdut music (original music from Indonesia) show to
entertain visitors and local people. This beach also used as a place to
do traditional ceremony of larungan ( traditional ceremony by floating various sacrifices and ritual offering to the sea) and sea party.
This
beach located around 43 km from Mataram city by western coast of Lombok
island with route Mataram-Ampenan-Senggigi-Bukit Malimbu-Pemenang-Sire.
To reach it, needs 1 hour trip by personal vehicle or motorbike. You
can also get it by route Gunung Sari-Sidemen-Pusuk-Pemenang-Sire.
You can also take public transportation with route Mataram-Ampenan
then Ampenan-Tanjung. Another alternative by public transportation is
with route Rembiga-Tanjung.
Every route you passed, has its own beauty. If you use route which passing Senggigi beach, you’ll be served with the beauty of west coastal view of Lombok island.
While if you choose the second route, you will enjoy Pusuk tropical
wood which has many monkeys wander in the street’s side. If you’re not
in hurry, you could spend little time communicating with those primates
by giving them banana.