Bicycle Tour Package "Eat, Pray, Love" Launched in Ubud

Unique cycling tour package was launched at the Museum Puri Paintings Ubud. This bike tour package called "Eat, Pray, Love" Cycling.

The launch of this tour packages starting from Museum Puri Ubud painting Saturday afternoon. Dozens of participants cycling tour package "Eat, Pray, Love" is then down a country road Ubud far more than 3 kilometers.

Cycling package is unique because it is a trail bike lanes artist Elizabeth Gilbert, played by Julia Roberts in the movie "Eat, Pray, Love". In addition to passing through the streets of hamlets and villages and rice fields in Ubud, cycling package also stop at home Mangku Ketut Liyer, an old shaman as well as a fortune teller who visited Elizabeth Gilbert in "Eat, Pray, Love".

In addition to a stop at the home seer Ketut Liyer, bicycle rentals also stop at Ubud Monkey Forest, and ends at the Museum Puri Paintings for dinner.

Package tours bike "Eat, Pray, Love" was conceived Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy. The idea came from marketing expert Hermawan Kertajaya.

"Today we are his launcing (launch) packages creative trail traces the Julia Roberts film" Eat, Pray Love. "If the product is sold to foreign tourists for 100 dollars, then the results can be shared among local people Ubud. Tourists who take this package not only enjoy, but also involved in it, tourists can learn something. So here we sell spirits, tourists will be involved and he will not forget, "he said.

Hermawan Kertajaya hope cycling package "Eat, Pray, Love" could follow the lead of a successful tourist attraction "James Bond Island" in Phuket Thailand. The island, formerly known as Ko Tapu or Nail Island, 1974 to James Bond filming locations, titled "The Man with the Golden Gun".

"James Bond Island in Thailand, though it was made 30 years ago, has remained busy. Guy over there willing to pay Rp 1.5 million just to see the rock, where the set of the film" Man With The golden Gun "first performed in 1974, "he said.

 "We strongly support the efforts initiated activities cycling" Eat, Pray, Love "is. Activity is to be promoted and sold to tourists in Ubud. This is a great way to introduce Bali to the outside world," said Head of Publications Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, I Gusti Ngurah Putra. (Dev)