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The one festival and time of the year I enjoy is the Bali Arts Festival. A potpourri of drama, dance and culture combine to make it one of the most enjoyable attractions of the year. Twenty provinces from Indonesia will join the festival this year by presenting their cultural arts and handicrafts as well as [...]
Art and orangutans don’t appear to have much in common. However, for internationally recognized artist Jason Monet, conservation of the threatened primate starts with bamboo. According to the Bali-based artist, the more the arts, architecture and just about everything else from food to furniture uses bamboo, the longer orangutans on Sumatra and Kalimantan will have [...]
Today across the world it is Earth Day and this is day each year that marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Actually the first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. This in turn led to the passage of the Clean Air, [...]
Billabong has released the official dates for the Pro Junior Series in Bali for 2008, announcing a return to the prime locations of Keramas, Kuta Reef and Canggu for the three event circuit. The inaugural 2007 series dished up some of the tastiest waves the juniors had seen in a long time and 2008 will [...]
Being a great lover of the arts and forever in galleries and museums, it is the art of photography that is my passion. Travel anywhere in Bali and the photographic opportunities are endless. The same can be said for the rest of Indonesia and in fact, South-East Asia. Currently there are two excellent photographic exhibitions [...]
Bali
Events Calendar 2007
Source: Bali Goverment Tourist Office Most of
special events in Bali are related to Hindhu religion and
Balinese tradition and customs. such as: Temple anniversary,
Balinese live cycle, and Holy Days
Holy Days
- Melasti or Melis - Great Purification ceremony when
thousands of temple adherents in Bali go to the beaches
of Bali, especially Kuta and Sanur, carrying their respective
temple effigies, started very early in the morning in
welcoming “Nyepi Holiday”, the Icaka new year.
- “Nyepi” Holiday (19 March 2007) - Icaka
New Year, the day of absolut silence throughout the island
when no activity is done, on traffic is seen anywhere
no fire is lit and no amusement is held along the day.
It’s the day of self-introspection for Hindu followers
when the entire island turns to be just like being deserted.
- Galungan (27 June 2007), held throughout Bali, as to
celebrate the victory of virtue (DHARMA) upon evil (ADHARMA)
when the entire island brightened with festivities while
“penjor” the tall-artistically-decorated-bamboo-poles
stuck at every house-entrance adorn the along sides of
the roads symbolizing prosperity.
- Kuningan (07 July 2007), the last day of GALUNGAN celebration,
as the ascendant day of ancestral-Holy spirits and Deities
back to Heaven, when special offerings made of yellow
rice and side dishes are offered to them while e very
compound and temple looks amazing with ornaments made
of young coconuts-leaves and flowers.
People life ceremonies:
These are many ceremonies rites the Balinese have to go
through from birth till death, even before birth and after
death: Such as: Birth ceremoney, wedding, and cremation.
And much more. Please click month below or on the top-left
site to find the date of other events and temples celebration.
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