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Rental car in Bali

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Rahajeng Rahina Galungan lan Kuningan

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Rahajeng Nyanggra Rahina Galungan Lan Kuningan, Dumogi Irage Sareng Sami Manggihang Karahayuan Lan Karahajengan.

Kuta Karnival

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Kuta Karnival - A Celebration of Life on 19th - 27th September 2009 at Kuta Beach Bali, an annual international event that has attracted thousands of people to the sands of Kuta, winning hands down The Beat Awards for The Best Community Event in Bali!
Have fun with the series of even including; Opening Ceremony with Turtle Release and Paddle for Peace, Kite Festival, Puja Shanti, 'Morning of the Earth' Yoga, Mepantigan Balinese Martial Art, Bali Hotels Association’s Bartender Competition, Graffiti Cartoon Expose, T-Shirt Cartoon Competition, Sunset Dances, Mini Cartoon Exhibition, Youth Race, Movie Screening, Barong Reptile Show, Street Art & Sand Sculpture Competition, SFO and Oakley present Open Stage, Kuta Young Architects, Youth Info Centre, Raremotion Artist Series, Bali Blogger Community, Environment Day, Surfer Girl Presents the Surfer Girl Big Splash ‘09, Cardinal Music Awards, Bali Food Festival, Fishing Fun and Street Parade.
Visit : http://www.kutakarnival.com for more information

Sanur Village Festival

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Bali's 4th Sanur Village Festival with the theme 'Marine Life' will be the highlight which means most of the activities will be inspired from the marine life which also exist as a very important element in the Balinese everyday life.
Since the first celebration of the Sanur Village Festival, this event has been listed at Bali 's event calendar as one of the annual tourist attractions.
Cultural activities will still dominate this festival such as traditional performances, parade, music, collaboration show, water sports and food festival as the main attraction, also not to forget a green program under water festival with its coral reef plantation.
for more information visit : http://gotosanur.com/

Ubud Writers and Readers Festival

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Ubud Writers and Readers Festival is the international major project of the Ubud-based Mudra Swari Saraswati Foundation. It was first conceived of by Janet De Neefe, co-founder of the Foundation, as a response to counteract the damaging effect of the first Bali bombing.
The first Festival took place in 2004. Since its founding, however, the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival has grown and developed into an internationally recognized forum that fosters a global conversation and provides a platform for writers from Indonesia and around the world to share their ideas and perspectives on current issues.
Suka-Duka: Compassion & Solidarity is the 2009 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival theme.
Visit UWRF website for more information.

Shiva, Laksmi and Ganesha photo frame

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Bali Kite Festival

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The Bali Kite Festival is an annual international kite festival held in July in Padang Galak area, Sanur Beach, Bali. Traditional giant kites (4 meters in width and almost 10 meters in length) are made and flown competitively by teams from the villages (banjar) of Denpasar. read more at Wiki

Bali Arts Festival 2009

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An annual Bali Art Festival is the preserves of Bali's precious cultural heritage.
The arts festival not only acts as a catalyst for the performing arts, it also offers a rare opportunity for audiences to enjoy a wide range of performances from all over the island in cultural awareness amongst the youth of Bali.

Rest in peace Jacko and Farrah

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We have lost two biggest star, King of Pop Michael Jackson and Farrah 'Charlie Angels' Fawcett, we love you, may your soul rest in peace...

Panyembrama performed by female dancer vs male dancer

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This is Panyembrama performed by female dancer






And this is performed by male dancer (some of them are my cousin :D)

Balivillashotels.com domain name for sale?

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Barong Dance (Ratu Gde mesolah)

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Barong or usually Balinese called "Ratu Gde" are made and believed to protect their accompanist in a various scope like village or Banjar. It is definitely different with Barong that performed for tourists amusement. 
For example the mask for Barong Ket, although look the same it has maredly difference, the mask for Ratu Gde are made from Pule wood / alstonia scholaris (see previous story) and mostly decorated with gold and gems. There are some production stages in making Ratu Gde which ending with Pasupati ceremony to ask for the certain spirit to descend and reside and endow it with its spirit and powers. Ratu Gde dance only for a temple ceremony event as a devotional dance to God (Ratu Gde mesolah).

There is a story in the past about Ratu Gde that occasionally perform surveillance by walking around village or banjar in the night silently without gamelan and not followed with their accompanist, it is when many of the villagers getting sick or die by unknown causal factor (known as grubug) or on a certain day like Kajeng Kliwon (also known as a good day for practicing black magic). On that time the performer of Ratu Gde are in unconscious condition as the spirit of Ratu Gde have control over them.

If you stay at a village in Bali, it might be happen in the midnight, on the street in front of house, when there's a sound ... a clink sound of a small chimes and tapping sounds of a wooden teeth, be peaceful as that's a sign Ratu Gde are in duty... Guarding you!

Pura Ulun Danu Batur in Kintamani Bali

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Pura Ulun Danu Batur ("Head of the Lake") with obvious Indian influences. This is one of the most significant religious complexes on Bali. Lake Batur is the source of dozens of underground springs, which help regulate the flow of water for the farmlands and sacred pools throughout the whole south-central region. Farmers from all over the island pay homage here to Ida Batari Dewi Ulun Danu, the life-sustaining and highly venerated goddess of the lake, who supplies the 37 rivers, tributaries, dams, and irrigation canals between here and the sea with water.

The nine-temple complex, with its impressive tall gateway, contains a maze of 285 shrines and pavilions dedicated to the deities of water, agriculture, holy springs, and arts and crafts. The largest temple, Pura Penataran Agung Batur, consists of five spacious well-swept black-gravel courtyards filled with rows of thatched-roof meru towers. The 11-roofed meru in the inner courtyard is dedicated to Dewi Danu, the goddes of the lake. 

Dewata Nawa Sanga

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Free Download of Kober (flag) Dewata Nawa Sanga. Representation of God in 8 direction and 1 at the center.

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Melasti

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Melasti or in India known as Yatra or Nagasankirtana, is one of ceremony series before Nyepi day (day of silence), the ceremony process by carrying jempana (wooden thrones) on the devotees shoulder to the sea or spring. On each jempana was seated the sacred Pralingga (a media to worship God or ancestors).
Melasti has a purpose to sanctifies that is swept away 'malaning bumi' ( impurity of microcosmos and macrocosmos ) to the sea and 'angamet sarining bhuana' ( took the quintessence of earth ) in the shape of 'amerta' from the sea. 
"Like moon shadow in a bowl of water, only in a pure holy water a moon shadow can be found"