This year Nyepi Day fell on March 16^th. It is a day in the Balinese Hindu culture where the island is silent and the people fast and meditate. It’s a day of self reflection. From 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. the next day the whole island of Bali comes to a sudden halt. Nobody is allowed to be on the streets as special officials monitor and enforce people to stay in their homes and keep silent. Everyone is restricted from work, lighting fires, using electricity, traveling, talking, any kind of self entertainment, and for some, not eating anything at all.

Nyepi is predominately a Hindu holiday, but other people who live in Bali or visit the island observe this day of silent too. They may not believe in what the day is all about, but they participate out of respect for the Hindus on the island.

For people who spent their holidays in Bali during Nyepi and did not wish to participate in keeping the day for self reflection, they were taken in consideration. They were allowed to watch television and enjoy all the amenities of their hotel or Bali villa, but they were not permitted to be out on the streets or on the beach. They had to stay in their hotels or villa in Bali. Even all the busy touristic areas that are usually jam packed with people such as Seminyak, Kuta, and Ubud became total ghost towns.

During this day of silence, no airplanes were allowed to land or take off at the Denpasar International Airport, as it was completely shut down for 24 hours. Although no one was allowed on the streets, they made special exceptions for people to be transported to the hospital for any type of serious emergencies such as women who were in labor and life threatening causes. Planes were only granted special permission to leave Bali for people who had serious traumatic injuries, which needed special attention to be flown out of the island. The only people that were allowed on the streets were what they call in Bali the Pecalang, which are security guards and police who enforce the prohibition rules.

The day after Nyepi is called Ngembak Geni. Slowly everything came back to normal, as the streets were busy again. There were many ceremonies that were performed around the island and people celebrated for accomplishing a day of total self reflection and meditation. The Balinese Hindus repented and forgave each other for all the wrong they have committed. It surely was a very festive day in Bali, Indonesia.

Bali is the home town for unique culture and Art tradition.

Bali is the home for unique culture and tradition, where here the most magnificent culture and tradition are born and keeping well. Balinese people are very creative person in every thing in their daily life activities. The people know with their talent in art like painting, sculpture, gambelan Instrument, drama, kakawin, dances wayang, and many other that if we explained that lot of thing that we can find about the art in Bali.

Dances are one of them where in Bali there are lots of dances which we can find. Basically dance is created by people who inspirited to the nature and legend of god where their implemented in the form of dance, but some of the sacral dance is created automatically came when they doing the tradition ceremonial like upakara and spontaneity having a trances and dance followed the Gambelan instrumental. Balinese dances can divide in two kind the first one is the dance which including to the sacral dance where this dances are only performance and has religious connection to traditional ceremonial day like in a temple, and the second one is the Wali Dances where this dance is including to the entertainment performance dance which the function to entertainment.

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Betutu delicious Balinese traditional food.

Bali has many kind of original traditional food where some of that food is presented as complement in every traditional Balinese religious ceremonial. In every single Balinese life is connected with the religious traditional ceremonial. In the holy day of Balinese traditional ceremonial people came to the Pura (temple) to give all the entire land product from rise, fruit, until food which all the presented as their thanks to god for blessing their daily activity life. There many kind of traditional original Balinese food which spread to all over the Balinese town.

Betutu chicken “goes” to the villas, hotel, and restaurant.

One of them are Betutu, this is original Balinese traditional food which made from the chicken. The Betutu Balinese food is delicious food usually this food are made from chicken and presented at holy Balinese day, this food also has great relationship to every single ceremonial day which this food presented together with the other traditional food like lawar, be nyuh, kuah komoh, and may other. In edition the development this food goes to the modern world thought the restaurant, hotel, villas, event thought to all over the world. This also has goest to the villas in bali while spend the holiday in Bali staying at villa and the villas chief will presented the Chicken Betutu traditional Balinese food as a breakfast, lunch, or even thought your romantic honey moon candle light diner in the villa.

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Pawiwahan new step for new beginning of life.

Marriage is the important thing in human life where this is processes aimed to uniting two people in opposite sex which being in love each other. In edition the important purpose of marriage is to born a new generation, so the rotate chain from the processes of human life can’t be break it. Marriage is a new step in life for two people between a man and a woman which in falling in love each other. In marriage life they must learn to face the real world each other and be more responsible for their new family. All over the world wedding ceremonial is very important thing in their life where all the lover couple in all over the world is dreaming about their beautiful and romantic wedding ceremonial which done only one time in their life.

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The government of Bali operated “shuttle bus”

Supporting the Asia beach games (ABG) and Gajah Mada Festival which perform later at December, the Bali government will operated shuttle bus along that event. This is the continue program from Maha Bandana Prasada event which celebrated on 18-20 September 2008 where that event centered on Puputan Badung square. This program gives free bus facility for the tourist for enjoyable the attraction from art and Balinese culture that was saying by Drs Putu Budiasa Kadiparda Bali yesterday (19/9).

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Environmental As a Global Warming Control

The Kuta Carnival six anniversaries 2008 will held for nine day in October2008 from 18-26 which take location on the kuta beach area. This is the sixth anniversaries where the first time was celebrated on 2003, the event were propose to fixing the Balinese image from terrorism Bali bombing at 2002 and awakes the spirit one union in peace.

The event will take the theme environmental as a global warming control. That opinion was saying by the head of the Kuta carnival committee I Nyoman graha wicaksana in kuta “this event is not owned by the Balinese people only, but this event are belonged to all people in all over the world”, he added that he need the support for all the Balinese people so that this event can be success.

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