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.

One union in the spirit of Tanah Lot Spectacular 2008

In the few day ago the Tanah lot spectacular 2008 bali event has been executed on 12 until 14 on September which is predicted there are many people are came to tanah lot to see this spectacular event. In the other side the committee of this all ready prepare to make sure that the all of this event is ready to use on time, like logistic event organization, entertainment, the security, etc. In this event the security is the first priority for the committee, because they don t want the image of Tanah lot are poor in quality, in edition every one know that tanah lot are famous to all the globe world. This opinion is saying by the regency government of tabanan city adi wiriatama which is representative with the head of tour government tabanan I wyn Diasa yesterday (9/9).

In the other side he added this event is the continue event form Bali program recovery which is hold in 2005 ego. This event also executes to support the program visit Indonesia year 2008. There are many participant like runner, dancer, air modeling are involved in this event.
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