Senggigi is the main tourist strip of the Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

n island of Lombok

Lombok

Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It forms part of the chain of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the Lombok Strait separating it from Bali to the west and the Alas Strait between it and Sumbawa to the east...

, stretched out along the several kilometers of the beachfront, just to the north of the capital Mataram

Mataram (city)

Mataram is the capital of the Province of West Nusa Tenggara . The city is situated within Lombok Barat Regency and lies on the western side of the island of Lombok, Indonesia...

. The site of a building frenzy in the late 1990s when Lombok was hyped to be the next Bali

Bali

Bali is an Indonesian island located in the westernmost end of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east...

, the communal violence of 2000 and the 2002 Bali bombing

2002 Bali bombing

The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. The attack was claimed as the deadliest act of terrorism in the history of Indonesia according to the current police general, killing 202 people,...

dealt Senggigi a severe blow, with tourist numbers declining precipitously and many construction projects halted.

External links

• NY Times article, Next Stop Lombok Island http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/travel/21next.html?ref=travel