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2005 - New Products
In keeping with the commitment of Bali Adventure Tours to the development
of new products for the tourism industry in Bali, the company commenced the building of our first class overnight stay accommodation project at The Elephant Safari Park. Which will
include a full range of rooms from VIP to Standard so as to suit any budget. A Swimming Pool and a fully licensed bar overlooking the Elephants and the Park will further
enhance the park. The project is due for completion in 2006.
As a component of the Elephant Park, the Masons created an
Elephant Foundation, in an effort to encourage conservation and education about this rapidly vanishing species. With a part of park fees benefiting the fund, the foundation intends
to contribute to the rescue and conservation of wild elephants in Sumatra.
One step in the education program is the publication of a book about the Elephant Safari Park to be launched in the future. Some of the elephants are also involved in creating
elephant paintings at the park, with proceeds for the sale of the paintings also going towards conservation.
October, 2004 - 10 New Elephants
10 new elephants were saved including 2 baby elephants, 2 year old Debby & 4 year old Ryan and transmigrated from Sumatra to join the Elephant Safari Park
family thereby making a total of 27 elephants. This journey was documented by an Australian film company to be released later as a 1 hour television feature.
September, 2004 - New Breeding Area
Work commenced on the spacious new breeding
area for the Elephants, and at the same time updating and modernizing the infrastructure of the Elephant food area, waste & rubbish removal, plus the implementing of a brand
new Elephant Manure Processing Plant in Renon, Denpasar where the Elephant waste will be turned into an environmentally friendly fertilizer.
Features of the new breeding area will include, public access and viewing area, one of the deepest Elephant wading ponds in South East Asia. Plus the planting of over 200 trees
including 30 different species of palm trees, landscape gardens and free roaming area for the courting couple. The Park also set about beautifying the area with thousands of
native & imported orchids.
August, 2004 - BAT Upgrades Fleet Vehicles
Bali Adventure Tours upgraded their fleet of vehicles with the purchase of ten new 11 seater buses and four new 6 seater buses so as to maintain our high
standards of safety and comfort for our guests.
25th April 2004 - BAT hosts 46 K.I.D.S.
The Elephant Safari Park hosted 46 kid's (K.I.D.S - Kuta
International Disaster Scholorship) and their families who are
direct victims of the Bali bombings, they had all lost one or
both parents in the disaster. All had a very entertaining
day out which was organised by Sherly from KIDS and BAT's PR
executive Yona.
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Aussie Rock Legend Jimmy Barnes in Bali |
Australian rock legend Jimmy Barnes recently joined leading
adventure specialists; Australian owned and operated, Bali Adventure Tours while on holiday with his family. Click on the photo to enlarge.
The rasping rocker known for his 1970’s band ‘Cold Chisel’ and an illustrious
solo career including soundtrack work for U.S. director Ron Howard’s film Gung Ho and the movie The Lost Boys, had fellow band and family members, backing
vocalist and daughter Eliza-Jane, and nephew/guitarist Matthew Schlammerl (pictured) joining in on the fast paced action flight.
Jimmy raves about the wonders of seeing Bali from the air, saying he and wife Jane
would like to permanently reside in Bali. Jimmy travelled with wife Jane, and daughters Mahalia (20), Eliza Jane (17) and Elly May (13) as part of a special performance stint at the Hard
Rock Hotel, Bali in October. Mahalia and Eliza-Jane form part of the band, singing dazzling duets and belting out backing vocals for their famous father.
Bali Adventure Tours was the premier choice for thrill seeker Jimmy and his family who say they are looking forward
to coming back and experiencing more of the company’s fantastic adventure tour products! Click here to see more
celebrity photo's.
September 2002 - BAT Introduces Combo - Trekking.
Welcome to a triple treat trekking experience! Our newly combined trekking option is really an exclusive experience. Fantastic value for
money and available only to Bali Adventure Tours, our trek takes visitors through the highlands of Taro and a bamboo forest, see rural village life as unchanged for a thousand years and
wander through stretches of emerald green rice paddies. Click here for more information.
January 2002 - BAT Opens New Tour Counter
at the Hard Rock Hotel
Bali Adventure Tours recently opened it's new centrally located and upgraded
Hard Rock Hotel Tour Counter, which is now situated on the hotel's first level. Chosen as the hotel’s exclusive tour operator, the company’s dynamic new image is reflected in the new
counter’s innovative and unusual design that blends perfectly into Bali’s first theme hotel. BAT's Managing Director Nigel Mason adds “When we had the opportunity to relocate
our tour desk, we decided to come up with something different, but as equally unique and exciting as our first counter."
The new counter itself looks like two rafts in front of a stunning backdrop of
BAT tour images, surrounded by trees full of reptiles and a full size elephant bursting out from the wall. The Tour Desk features computerized booking, external fax and internet
connections to the BAT Head Office at Pesanggaran. A large television monitor plays a non-stop video of tours that can be booked at the counter. The counter also works together
with daily pool and hotel promotions that introduce guests to the large array of tours that the desk has to offer. The new counter has quickly become an attraction in itself, with
guests posing for photos along side it throughout the day.
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December 2001 BAT Hosts Special Day for Special Kids
Bali Adventure Tours was pleased to host a day of fun for children and parents from
the SDLB school for handicapped children in Klungkung.
The day was organized with Kupu Kupu, a non profit organization which works to
improve the lives of mentally and physically handicapped children and adults in Bali.The children went to both the Bali Bird Park and the Elephant Safari Park in what the group leader
described as a "special day for them that they will remember forever".
At the Elephant Safari Park the children were able to hand feed the elephants and
watch the elephants bathe.
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Elephant art works created at the Elephant Safari Park, Bali to be featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
(Bali/Sydney)- Balinese artists have been recognized the world over for their unique style and manner, but in June to August this year
Indonesian artists of a very different background will be making their mark at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art. Six Sumatran Elephants have submitted their paintings for an Elephant
Art Exhibition which will be attended by New York-based artists Komar & Melamid. The two Russian artists have achieved notoriety in the United States, as the Soviet Union's most
prominent dissident artists, famous for their large-scale paintings satirizing the style and iconography of Soviet art.
While working with an elephant called Renee at the Toledo, Ohio Zoo in 1995, Komar & Melamid developed a method of teaching elephants to
paint. From this they formed the Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project which grew out of a series of collaborations between themselves and the elephant artists. They visited the
Elephant Safari in Bali, Indonesia in August 1999 to teach the elephants there the fundamentals of painting. Bali's Elephant Park contains 17 Sumatran elephants, a sub-species of the Asian
elephant which were brought to Bali from Sumatra, their last natural stronghold in Indonesia, by Bali Adventure Tours. The Elephant art works created during Komar & Melamid's time in
Bali were sold at the Millennium Art Show of The Four Seasons Hotel, Bali in conjunction with new York-based Mimi Ferzt Gallery. Additional works were sold at the AEACP's benefit auction
which was held at Christie's New York. The funds raised benefited various conservation projects.
Nigel Mason, owner of Bali Adventure Tours and owner, designer of the Elephant Safari Park, has also established the 'Indonesian Elephant
Foundation' working together with London based "Flora & Fauna International", who's patron is Her Majesty the Queen of England. The foundation's aim is to donate funds to
support the endangered Sumatran elephant in the wild. They have appointed Nigel as specialist consultant for their 'Save the Sumatran Elephants' project. The Elephant Safari Park in Bali
won the PATA Award for the Most Innovative New Product in Bali for 1999 and Nigel has been asked to be involved in numerous elephant related projects outside Bali, one in particular, was
as the 'Precinct Concept Designer and Specialist Consultant' for the new fifteen million dollar Asian Elephant Precinct at the Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney, Australia.
The Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project currently promotes and distributes the work of elephant artists to raise funds for elephant
conservation. By exhibiting and marketing the paintings internationally, the project aims to increase public awareness of the plight of Asian elephants, in additional to funding local
conservation projects that benefit domesticated elephants.
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