Candi Dasa Beach

Candidasa is the name of a temple complex on a lagoon by the edge of the sea. Set at the foot of Mount Agung, the white sandy beach of the temple is only visible when the tide is out but the grassy foreshore and beach are great places to catch the sun. Started in the early 1980s this romantic area, also called Candidasa became the developing tourist destination, though it still offers an escape from the hassles of the more populated tourist areas. 

Candi Dasa is an excellent base for daytrips around Eastern Bali. Tenganan, Goa Lawah, Amlapura and Padangbai are all within easy reach. And good diving is available a little further afield at Tulamben, where a US ship sunk during World War-II and may be viewed in its underwater resting-place. You can also hire boats for a day's diving or snorkeling.

Bali, The guarder God's island

In Bali, the main temple society as Kahyangan faith Bali Jagad, society itself in Bali, but also in spiritual groups, there are different concepts. Differences also occurred in Bali on classical literature and therefore have different views in different references.

However, with the important role of the Hindu religious experts, in Bali, these different views and beliefs are united in a uniform interpretation, and then compiled into a book titled "decisions of the seminar, the interpretation of the Hindu religion I -. XV published book by local governments in Bali 1999/2000.

The book pointed out that in Bali Jagad Kahyangan divided into two different concepts (Rwabineda), such as the Temple in Karangasem regency hundred Chaki as Purusa (male) and Batur Temple Pradana (female) differences in the Bangli Regency.

Sarad (Naga)

On Catur Lokapala (four directions) based on the concept, Kahyangan Jagad Temple in Karangasem regency Lempuyang Luhur composition, Andakasa Temple is also in Karangasem regency, Batukaru Temple, Tabanan Regency and Puncak Mangu Temple Badung regency.

In the sad Winayaka based on the concept, Kahyangan Jagad by the Chaki Temple in Karangasem regency century, Lempurang Luhur Temple also regent in Karangasem, Klungkung regency Gua Lawah Temple, Uluwatu Temple in Badung regency, Batu Ka Temple in Tabanan Regency, such as and Puser Tasik Temple / Pusering Jagad in the Gianyar regency.

In classical poetry literature (geguritan) entitled Patijlamit written by the International Development Association Pedanda Ketut Sidemen Sanur Griya Taman Kelodan Intaran, it shows, such as sadness Kahyangan Jagad in Bali, such as the worship of local temple of God's name: Bhatara Sang Hyang Purna Asia is a hundred Chaki temple worship, and his arms in the Karangasem regency Chris at (tuwek); Bhatara Sang Hyang Ningjaya is the same in the Karangasem regency Lempuyang also enshrined in the instigation of weapons; Bhatara Sang Hyang Jayaningrat is dedicated to his weapon Batukaru located in the Tabanan regency arrow; Herjeruk Temple Bhatara Sang Hyang Putrajaya sword weapons, in Gianyar regency, shrine; Luhur Uluwatu is Bhatara Sang Hyang Manik Gumawang and Badung regency spear at the Yasukuni Shrine; Puser Tasik / Pusering Jagad Temple Shrine Bhatara with duwung Sang Hyang Manik Galba with duwung weapons, located in Gianyar regency

Villages in Bali

Villages in Bali is the most unique village in the world. If you have enough time to visit, Bali villages located not far away from town, you will find out the real Balinese village. Usually you will see the vast green rice fields of traditional villages. Birds in the sky, and step ways to cross the rice farmers.

Above the village, we will find the village temple to mebakti (prayer) and worship every purnama (full moon), tilem (dead moon) and kajeng kliwon villagers and yard. Once in six months, there was a ceremony, the villagers out of their houses dressed in traditional clothing, bring products and (ritual) dedicated pujawali.

The end of the village, it is always there for a Pula Dalem (internal Temple), and the next village with a serious Pula prajapati. In this grave, the dying villagers prick and prayer, Ngaben cremation.

The most interesting is that in the middle of the village, there is a nothing more banjar, a wantilan (construction), a place the villagers together for life from piodalan any aspect of the discussion, cremation, agriculture, management subak (traditional irrigation system), the selection of village cadres. Villagers take from this banjar DESA mawacara called discretion.


Gate House

If we walk around the house into the village, there angkul - angkul (gate) and it is often cultivated with the bunga jepun  (egg flower) or sometimes nyuh GADING (yellow coconut) plantations. The streets of the village is very pretty split. There are many such similar Bali Penglipuran village street, village and Sembiran Tenganan villages or Sukawati village, a traditional village.


Village Temple
Banjar as a gathering place for the villagers, the village in the social and the smallest unit of exchange. Although banjar is the smallest part in Bali, but the structure is not clear which one is first formed, village or banjar (sub-village). It is clear that, banjar is a place where people come to discuss matters of mutual interest as sangkep or parum (the meeting). For most villagers in Bali, banjar the value of social transformation is a local Hindu Bali. Most social activities are banjar.

This is not surprising, if we see the villagers learned to play gamelan, ngigel (dance), and even metajen (gambling or fighting cocks), and masliahan (relax).

Some say banjar term meaning derived from the banjah called open and spread bebanjaran or parallel. Pronunciation of the word has the same meaning banjar place the rights and obligations krama the banjar itself (all members) of their community.

Members of the banjar can be divided into krama DESA Tua or Monk (unmarried members), krama pengarep or grehasta (key members), krama penyada, who is a member of the duties, and the release of members of the krama penglingsir (and old members .)


Cremation ceremony

Another point is to pay the necessary attention is nothing more kulkul banjar in each building (wooden tower) was established. Kulkul is made of wood clock to provide information banjar members.

Banjar Bali ngambel activities like a people (to run their practices) in the center. Even Bali's self-image is to express their social attitudes and friendship, and their indicators. Therefore, it is not surprising if there were kasepekang banjar members (isolation). This is why banjar is a tourist magnet, if we really want to explore Bali.

There are various buildings in Bali, and one known to all Federation (built on your life). Association for the Bali does not mean a building, the building itself composed of several packages. Occupied by a few packets of a Federation plot of land on the completion of the entire house.

A Council of ingredients called karang sikut satak. In other words, a single plot of land measures 14 × 13 depa, a depa is equal to the length between a grown man, his hands and spread them.

This karang sikut satak divided into three parts. The Department is based on TN Mandala, divided into areas of land that he horse, madya and nista plot concept. District Utama is "parahyangan" a local, family prayer, the district madya as "pawongan" is - the family members here to do their daily activities, and regional nista "palemahan" where the animals, cages, plants, etc.

Council is to build around the perimeter of 4 paduraksas, there are four walls of the angle of the wall columns. Each point is the name of Sri Lanka raksa, Aguilar raksa, Rudra raksa, and Kara raksa. Council of the entrance to the courtyard as angkul - angkul. The simplest angkul - angkul lelengen and most complex known as the so-called Bintang aring Furusato / gelung Gurion.

Prayer

The input angkul - angkul, you will see the wall as Carole, Carole face you. Carole, Carole is a wall of the restrictions and guidance at the same time to prevent from and into the yard (through angkul - angkul house natah) people watching.

Natah open space in the middle of the house. Bali's activities, including ceremonies, held here. Another place, they can do their religious activities are related to several of its pelinggih (sacred architecture) sanggah (where the family worship.) Although parahyangan place of worship is called sanggah, it is called pelangkiran (worship by a package name) pawongan, and it is called a palemahan penunggun karang.

Of: the number of packets in a Council of Economic and Social Affairs according to different, Patra (place, time, situation) and the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the concept of MaWa CARA (local customs / traditions). However, generally fills four to six units, each being based on their location or direction, such as the compass fills daja (North balai) the name, Bell dangin (in East balai), Bell delod (in South balai) and Bale dauh ( Western balai).

Bale is also based on the building of a named type. Bale daja simple as Midland. In the meten. Midland has four pillars in the balcony in front of Bandung is known as the American League. If the other four pillars are added in front as if it was like the appearance of a two-floor veranda, it is known as the proportion of meten Hill.

The same applies to nothing more dangin This is based on the number of its pillars: Bale dangin sakaenam (six pillars), sakakutus (eight pillars) and sakaroras (twelve pillar).

Clock Tower

Bale delod a not so popular in Bali. In Puri (as rulers of the house the past), Bale is known as nothing more sumanggen delod or tied mundak, which is called  Bale dangin singasari.

Other building to form a traditional Balinese house is paon (kitchen) and jineng (rice barn). About paon interesting is its shape is known as the Kong Kampiah. Shape the flow of air and sunlight into the kitchen with ease.

A topology (a large container is made of sedimentary rock), usually kept at paon before the water. On the basis of their typology, jineng often given different names: gelebeg and kelingking kelumpu. Next jineng is lesung and ALU (mortar /  pastle hammer).

Bali traditional Foods

Bali -Traditional Dessert

Real food is not readily available in Bali tourists Bali Tourism unless the family to dinner or go to the temple. Restaurants catering for tourists and Balinese cuisine is not for real. The reason is that there are too many to prepare, prepare to be large, but it must be time to eat fresh. It is often spicy and very tasty. Traditional Balinese dishes with banana leaves.

Bali chickens much healthier and have a real chicken flavor, but can be more severe than in the West battery-fed chickens. Battery feeding chickens lived only 41 days, specialized production and artificial breeding of large breasts and short legs. Now this situation appears to reduce the 41 days.

Etiquette

One on food, beverages and rules of conduct. Cake is always served coffee or tea, nuts and rice wine krupuk, tea, food and water or tuak. Host guests usually do not eat

Bali to eat with their right hand, because the left is impure, a common belief throughout Indonesia. Bali did not receive their left hand or something, would not give up on anyone with their left hand.

Bali famous dishes

Bali famous dishes are:

Chicken  - Lawar

Lawar

Traditionally cooked by men, who cut the turtle or mango, coconut section, add all spices and mixed blood and so it is red.

Bobby Brighter Summer Day (Babi Guling in Bahasa)

Roast suckling pig is one of Bali's favorite, although the pigs are usually too old, not breast-feeding 3-6 month - they are stuffed with spices, impaled on a wooden pole and turned over to the coconut shell and wood fire for a two hours.

Bebek Betutu

Duck stuffed with spices and vegetables wrapped in banana leaves, three to four hours that is cooked, eat this dish is for special occasions.

Bali- Rujak

Rujak

A refreshing sweet and sour salad with mango or papaya, etc., immature fruit and sugar mixture, cold and salt.

Sauce

Some common seasonings:

Sambal chili very spicy seasoning.

Kecap Xin acid sauce.

Kecap Manis sweet soy sauce.

Dessert

Some dessert Number:

Black rice cake known as tofu: soy bean curd.

Dada crispy shelled soybeans has a special yeast strain mixture into a small cake, and then friends of those beans - it tastes a little nuts. Snack

Very tasty, but not spicy food or snacks are:

Tofu, also known as the Great Lakes or tofu: soy bean curd.

Shrimp Cracker

Krupuk shrimp crackers.

Tempe crunchy shelled soy has a special yeast strain mixture into a small cake, and friends of those beans - it tastes a little nuts.

Bali Drink

Tuak, Arak, and Brehm are the main Bali home brewing:

Tuak

Tuak by cutting either coconut or palm trees without the development of sugar flowers. Then, the sugary liquid into a container to collect the bamboo and the dissemination of fermentation. Drunk fermented palm tree sap all over tropical Asia, Africa and the Americas. This is a "todi English colonialists", in numerous small warungs drunk all over the island. It has about the same alcohol content of beer.

Brhem

Brehm

Brehm, pronounced "Broom", is rice wine. Can be purchased from the store, but we are home made. Arak, this is used in almost all of the ceremony. This is a pleasant drink, to drink clean, mix in the ice or Arak. It is the sweet, sticky rice or glutinous rice by the (as it is called). Rice cooked for several hours. Yeast is added. It is then allowed to ferment 3 days, then Brehm drains into a pan. Commercial plant, but the taste is not very good. This is not exported.

Arak

Arak is distilled tuak. It has a higher alcohol content was colorless. It has a very sharp, spicy flavor. In the absence of fermentation, can be bottled for sale. As the unpleasant taste, mixed spices Bali it. It can also be added to coffee or Brehm mixed. Arak is used as a ritual of the product. In the absence of sugar, Arak will continue and not tuak. It can not be a coincidence, the Mongols called airak the distilled liquor.

Bali Wine

In the past few years, the local wine has been produced using grapes in Australia. Red, white, pink, plant, and the two companies, hatten and the god of wine bottling.

Spices

Bali using a wide range of raw materials. To explain how they intend to in the article entitled Balinese recipes.

Fragrant seeds and nuts: base wangen

Candlenut: Kemiri

The Tung oil and is similar to a macadamia nut. This is from the Tung tree. It is used to thicken sauces. This is the work into a paste. Nutty taste, can not be eaten raw. Substitutes will cashew nuts, macadamia nuts, almonds, Brazil nuts.

Coriander seed: Ketumbar

Coriander seeds for curry. Fresh coriander seeds ground to solve the cooling body and stomach. They can be used as a pepper substitute.

Long Pepper: Tabiabun

This is a type of hot and sweet peppers. It has a shape similar to the chili.

Clove: Cengkeh

They are grown in the eastern Indonesian Moluccas. They have a clear camphor-like odor. They are used to make cigarettes in Indonesia alone Tedin.

Nutmeg: Para

Launched the European Competition clove spice. It is sweet, cooling the mouth, and help digestion.

Pepper: Merica

Pepper to stimulate appetite. Aromatic than the white pepper and black pepper, white pepper but hotter.

Sesame seeds: Lenge

They are used as a ground and thickening agent. They come from India, the world's one of the oldest seeds.

Rhizome and root: base Bebungkilan

Galangal: Essien River / Lengkuas / Laos

South ginger is ginger family. It looks similar, but larger. It has a sweet, woody smell.

Turmeric: Kunyit

Jianghuang Sheng Long to the ground about one meter high. It has many of the finger, and is member of the lily family. Finger skin is brown, bright orange spice color underneath. It is used to the color of curry. It can also be used for skin problems and herbal cosmetics.

Kunyit is a sacred, because it's the color dyes. Bali kinds of red, black and white rice in the rice fields. In order to enable them to color kunyit rice wine. This requires a certain product. Only a small amount of purchase. To kunyit origin story, see the article entitled Balinese rice.

Easter lily: Kencur

Jiang smaller than the South, it is very fragrant, has a unique taste, which is the typical food in Bali. It is a hybrid Tung, turmeric, garlic, so suna cekoh, this is a delicious condiment. It is used in herbal medicine. Thai people call it pro-Hom.

Jiang: Jae

Ginger grew up in Bali, but it may be from China. Better than fresh ginger ginger. It can help digestion, stomach pain and sore throat. Stored in a cool place. Break or cut off a piece, and then slice skin, chopped or crushed.

In the bud

Torch ginger: Bongkot

This is a tall, wild ginger. Pink flowers. Young shoots and buds are called kecicang and used for cooking. In some bud is eaten raw sambals. It can be added to soup or curry aroma. The young shoot can be ground into a paste or hit and the whole like lemongrass vote. It is used for seafood. Lemon grass: Sereh

This is a short-term, there is a unique thin lemon grass. It is related to citronella, bulbous root. It is the bulbous root is used, but it is not used in the Bali cooking, but used in Thai food a lot. It contains vitamins A and D

Sour taste

Tamarind: Lunak / Assam

Tamarind is a common spice used as sour. Tamarind dry areas, but also conducive to common in Bali. There are many in Singaraja, North Bali. They are very tall, spreading a special, lobulated, Tan Fruit. Tamarind fruit seeds. Soaking seeds in water and use the solution to the sour dishes.

See, entitled How to make tamarind water, Bali recipes articles. Dark red flesh block the sale, can be soaked in water, then strained and juice. Rhubarb, lemon juice can be used as alternatives.

Kaffir Lime: jeruk Purut / Le Mu

Leaves and fruit are used. Fruit small, has a strong lime flavor. Leaves, because the Road Enzheluke purut or Road Enlai Mu know, is dark green, smooth. Bali is also used as Calamondin or kalamansi lime type, as it is called in the Philippines. It is smaller than the Thai type.

Sweet, salty taste

Sea Salt: Garam

Sea salt is the only cooking salt used in Bali. It is produced in coastal areas, if A Gawah, East Bali. It is added to the coconut milk.

Soy sauce: Kecap Xin / Kecap Manis

China introduced the Indonesian. Kecap Manis is sweet, is used in marinades, stir-fried vegetables and sambals.

Shrimp paste: Terasi / Belacan

This sauce is a fermented smell crustaceans. In Bali is fried or baked. It is stored in a glass bottle wrapped in aluminum foil in the refrigerator. It is high in protein.

Palm sugar: Gula Gula Merah or Bali

This flower buds from the betel nut is widely used caramelised sugar. It has iron, vitamin B and lower in calories than white sugar. Substitute gold syrup or maple syrup.

Pepper: Cabe / Lombok / tabia Krinyi

Bali - Babi Guling

Columbus discovered America pepper. He believes this is pepper. Portuguese brought it to India about 1560. Pepper is an appetite. Red pepper is β-carotene and vitamin-rich red and green: The pepper is also rich in vitamin C

Cabe

This is a small, hot variety.

Lombok

This is a larger, more moderate version.

Tabia Krinying

This is the smallest and the most popular and most popular island of Bali. They do not need to seed. Red is usually the most popular and most sweet.

Garlic and onion

Red onion: Overlord Merah

Bali use a lot of onions. Bali, like onion, but a more powerful and smaller onions. They are peeled, sliced or mashed with other ingredients. Balinese people believe that child protection onion black magic. They use traditional medicine. They cool the body, to help skin problems and infection.

Garlic: Overlord Putih will

Bali is sweet and the garlic is much smaller than in the West. They are usually grinding, cutting with knives or other seasoning sauce from scratch. It is sometimes fried and deep-fried coconut add extra flavor.

Fried Onion: Overlord Goreng

Gold small onion pieces often added to dishes, including rice.

Herbs and leaves

Bay Leaf

Both ends of the leaves is. Upper leaf is green, lighter at the bottom, and bottom of the vein.

Pandan leaves: Road En Pandan reckless

The pandan leaf is mainly used for desserts, such as black rice pudding. Leaves long, spear-shaped. Rice can be steamed pandan leaves. Pandan leaves to boil water is very refreshing. Pandan is the cooling ingredients of traditional medicines. It helps bleeding gums and skin diseases.

Gray Basil: Kemangi

This is to add rice wine, such as day (SARASWATI)day, special occasions.

Sam Lead: Road Ensalamu

This leaf has a unique flavor, often used to dry. It has a delicate flavor

Nusa Dua, Bali

The Area of Nusa Dua start of construction in 1974 as a consultant from the French study, SCETO (Societe Centrale pour l 'equpeent in 1970 and tour Ouetre - Mer), the feasibility study through PCI (Pacific Consultants International) in 1971 -1973 funds for the World Bank aid. Government of Indonesia has issued this management PT. British Dependent Territories citizens (Bali Tourism Development Corporation), the existing legal provisions and the Government of the Republic of Indonesia Regulation No. 27 of 1972 on November 12, 1972. 

The Nusa Dua is an elite international five-star resort hotels and resorts in Bali on the existing southern coastal side. It is located in Badung regency about 25 minutes drive from Bali International Airport. Nusa Dua and 350 hectares sample size luxury resort and one of the world's best tourism destination.

In fact, Nusa Dua's name is located on the island of Bali (Nusa is located south of Nusa Dua means two islands and an average of 2) is separated from the white sand.

Bali , the part of 30 province of Republic Indonesia

As the 30 provinces, part of the Republic of Indonesia, Bali is divided into eight Regency (Badung, Gianyar, Tabanan, Bangli, Karangasem, Jembrana, buleleng and Klungkung, a municipal-level cities (Denpasar) , 51 districts, 666 administrative villages. Denpasar is the capital of Bali province.

Agung is used as the guide, and that the North (Kaja), while the Southern Ocean is considered (Kelod). This is why south Buleleng is the opposite of "South" in Badung. In the Hindu point of view, the North direction (Hill) is a sacred place, and in the southern part is the place to be insulting.

In the area of classification, it is the analogy of the body anatomy: head, body, and legs (main), madya (middle) and Nista (insult). Therefore, the sacred place is located at the northern edge of the cemetery as a place of residence and, as a middle route. Even for sleeping, head facing north or east and legs are to the south or west.

How to get visa to visit Bali

Most people will automatically receive 60 days after entry to Indonesia. In order to expand the tourist visa, you must exit and re-enter Indonesia. Sometimes this is through rapid entry and exit to nearby countries such as Singapore. This could be organized by the United States the island 250 - 300 USD to fly back to Singapore the same day to return.

For a longer stay (business or social visa), you need a sponsor who will write a letter for you. The visa extension after the first 60 days - up to 6 months. There are many companies to do so, but this is a good idea to shop around because prices vary widely. This special visa applications must be before the embassy in Indonesia, your project.

Visa Services

In order to enter Indonesia, foreign nationals need a passport in their possession at least 6 months validity and appropriate visas.

Visa through Indonesian overseas embassy or consulate in the applicant's home recently. Application is by completing the appropriate application forms - from >

Has been issued a visa valid for 90 days. If the applicant failed to enter Indonesia, the 90-day period after the visa is issued, the visa will be declared null and void.

Please note that possession of a visa does not guarantee entry into Indonesia. Allowed to enter Indonesia is the immigration officer, authorized entry points.

Balinese painting art

Balinese art is art of Hindu-Javanese origin that grew from the work of artisans of the Majapahit Kingdom, with their expansion to Bali in the late 13th century. Since then, Ubud and its neighboring villages have been the center of Balinese art. Ubud and Batuan are known for their paintings, Mas for their woodcarvings, Celuk for gold and silver smiths, and Batubulan for their stone carvings.

Recent history

Prior to 1920s, Balinese traditional paintings were restricted to what is now known as the Kamasan or Wayang style. It is a visual narrative of Hindu-Javanese epics: the Ramayana and Mahabharata. These two-dimensional drawings are traditionally drawn on cloth or bark paper (Ulantaga paper) with natural dyes. The coloring is limited to available natural dyes: red, ochre, black, etc. In addition, the rendering of the figures and ornamentations must follow strictly prescribed rules, since they are mostly produced for religious articles and temple hangings. These paintings are produced collaboratively, and therefore mostly anonymously.

In the 1920s, with the arrival of many western artists, Bali became an artist enclave (as Tahiti was for Paul Gauguin) for avant-garde artists such as Walter Spies (German), Rudolf Bonnet (Dutch), Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur (Belgian), Arie Smit (Dutch) and Donald Friend (Australian) in more recent years. Bali has also attracted world famous anthropologists, from Stutterheim (Dutch) to Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead (American).

On his first visit to Bali in 1930, the Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias noted that local paintings served primarily religious or ceremonial functions. They were used as decorative cloths to be hung in temples and important houses, or as calendars to determine childrens horoscopes. Yet within a few years, he found the art form had undergone a "liberating revolution." Where they had once been severely restricted by subject (mainly episodes from Hindu mythology) and style, Balinese artists began to produce scenes from rural life. Whats more, these painters developed increasing individuality.

This groundbreaking period of creativity reached a peak in the late 1930s. A stream s to the depiction of daily Bali life and drama; (2) the change of the patron of these artists from the religious temples and royal houses to western tourists/collectors; (3) shifting the picture composition from multiple to single focus. The latter is most evident in the works of Ubud artists.

Despite the adoption of modern western painting traditions by many Balinese and Indonesian painters, the neo-traditional Balinese painting tradition is still thriving and continues by descedents/students of the artists of the pre-war modernist era (1928-1942). The schools of neo-traditional Balinese painting include: Ubud, Batuan, Sanur, Young Artist and Keliki schools of painting.

The Three Villages

Much of the buzz emanated from three villages: Ubud, where Spies settled, Sanur on the southern coast, and Batuan, a traditional hub of musicians, dancers, carvers and painters. The artists painted mostly on paper, though canvas and board were also used. Often, the works featured repetitive clusters of stylized foliage or waves that conveyed a sense of texture, even perspective. Each village evolved a style of its own. Ubud artists made more use of open spaces and emphasized human figures. Sanur paintings often featured erotic scenes and animals, and work from Batuan was less colorful but tended to be busier.

Ubud Painting

Ubud has been the center of art for centuries, with the surrounding royal houses and temples as the main patrons. Prior to the 1920s, traditional wayang style paintings dominated the subject matters, although Jean Couteau (1999) believes that both secular and religious theme paintings have long been co-existing in the form of the expression of the unity of opposites (Rwabhinneda in Balinese belief system).

It was not until the late 1920s that this balance was tilted toward secular art by the arrival of western artists such as Covarubias, Le Mayeur de Mepres, Theo Meier, Walter Spies and Rudolf Bonnet. The last two artists were often credited as the agents of change that brought Balinese Art to modernity. Their influence culminated with the founding of the Pitamaha Art Guild in 1936, with Tjokorda Gde Agung Sukawati as one of its founders. Its mission was to preserve the quality of Balinese Art in the rush of tourism to Bali. The board members of Pitamaha met regularly to select paintings submitted by its members, and to conduct exhibitions throughout Indonesia and abroad. Pitamaha was active until the beginning of the second world war in 1942.

The subject matters shifted from religious narration to Balinese daily life. Ubud artists who were members to Pitamaha came from Ubud and its surrounding villages; Pengosekan, Peliatan and Tebasaya. Among them were: Ida Bagus Made Kembeng of the village of Tebesaya and his three sons -- Ida Bagus Wiri, Ida Bagus Made and Ida Bagus Belawa; Tjokorda Oka of the royal house of Peliatan; I Dewa Sobrat, I Dewa Meregeg, I Dewa Putu Bedil, I Dewa Dana of Padangtegal; I Gusti Ketut Kobot, I Gusti Made Baret, I Wayan Gedot of Pengosekan; and I Gusti Nyoman Lempad.

The spirit of Pitamaha is well preserved by the descendents of these artists. Contemporary Ubudian artists include I Ketut Budiana, I Nyoman Meja, I Nyoman Kayun, A.A. Gde Anom Sukawati, I Gusti Agung Wiranata, Ida Bagus Sena, and many others.

Batuan Painting

The Batuan school of painting is practiced by brahman artists in the village of Batuan, which is situated ten kilometers to the South of Ubud. The Batuan artisans are gifted dancers, sculptors and painters. Major Batuan artists from the pre-modernist era include I Dewa Njoman Mura (1877-1950) and I Dewa Putu Kebes (1874-1962), who were known as sanging; traditional Wayang-style painters for temples ceremonial textiles.

The western influence in Batuan did not reach the intensity it had in Ubud. According to Claire Holt, the Batuan paintings were often sultry, crowded representations of either legendary scenes or themes from daily life, but they portrayed above all fearsome nocturnal moments when grotesque spooks, freakish animal monsters, and witches accosted people. This is particularly true for paintings collected by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson during their field studies in Bali in 1936 to 1939. Gradations of black to white ink washes laid over most of the surface, so as to create an atmosphere of darkness and gloom. In the later years, the designs covered the entire space, which often contributed to the crowded nature of these paintings.

Among the early Batuan artists, I Ngendon (1903-1946) was considered the most innovative Batuan School painter. Ngendon was not only a good painter, but a shrewd business man and political activist. He encouraged and mobilized his neighbours and friends to paint for tourist consumption. The major Batuan artists from this period were: I Patera (1900-1935), I Tombos (b. 1917), Ida Bagus Togog (1913-1989), Ida Bagus Made Jatasura (1917-1946), Ida Bagus Ketut Diding (1914-1990), I Made Djata (1920-2001), and Ida Bagus Widja (1912-1992). The spirit of the Pitamaha period is still strong and continues by contemporary Batuan Artists such as I Made Budi, I Nyoman Bendi, I Ketut Murtika, and many others.

Sanur Painting

The Sanur school of painting is the most stylized and decorative among all modern Balinese Art. It features members of the animal kingdom often drawn in an Escher-like manner. Major artists from Sanur are I Rundu, Ida Bagus Nyoman Rai, I Soekarja, I Poegoeg, I Rudin, and many others.

Young Artist Painting

The development of the Young Artist School of painting is attributed to the Dutch artist Arie Smit, a Dutch soldier who served during the 2nd world war and decided to stay in Bali. In the early 1960s, he came across children in the village of Penestanan near Tjampuhan drawing on the sand. He encouraged these children to paint by providing them with paper and paints. Their paintings are characterized by "child-like" drawings and bright colors. By 1970s, it attracted around three hundred peasant painters to produce paintings for tourists.

In 1983, the National Gallery of Malaysia held a major exhibition on the Young Artist paintings from the collection of Datuk Lim Chong Kit. Major artists from the Young Artist School are I Wayan Pugur, I Ketut Soki, I Ngurah KK, I Nyoman Londo, I Ketut Tagen, and many others.

The Balinese name

The Balinese name is a naming system used by the Balinese people of Bali and neighboring Lombok, Indonesia. Regardless of being male or female, each person receives one of four names based on birth order. Though there are significant variations in the four names of Balinese people, mostly due to caste membership, there are precisely four names in Balinese culture that are repeated endlessly. The firstborn is "Wayan" (or Yan, for short), second is "Made," third is "Nyoman" (Man for short), and fourth is "Ketut" (often elided to Tut). (The vowels are pronounced vowels similarly as in Spanish or Italian). Balinese names are rendered into Roman script by the Romanization of the Indonesian language. The spelling to pronunciation relationship is said to be "perfect" because the spelling of words was revised significantly in the 70s and/or 80s (and even more recently).

The first born is Wayan, and if there is a fifth child, he/she is often called Wayan Balik (or Wayan "again"). Of course, Balinese children/people are given other names, including a new "name" after death. However, it is important to realize that by and large, everyone does use these birth order names to refer to each other, and to call each other constantly throughout the day. "Given" names may be chosen due to, for example, the influence of popular culture or politics. Like some other Indonesian cultures, Balinese do not use family names.

Balinese gamelan, Balinese music

Balinese music can be compared to Javanese music, especially that of the pre-Islamic period. During that time, Javanese tonal systems were imported to Bali.

Balinese gamelan, a form of Indonesian classical music, is louder, swifter and more aggressive than Javanese music. Balinese gamelan also features more archaic instrumentation than modern Javanese gamelans. Balinese instruments include bronze and bamboo xylophones. Gongs and a number of gong chimes, are used, such as the solo instrument trompong, and a variety of percussion instruments like cymbals, bells, drums and the anklung (a bamboo rattle). There are two sizes of bamboo flutes, both used in theatrical music, and a rebab (two-stringed spike fiddle).

Modern forms of Balinese gamelan include kebyar, an energetic style played by clubs, which generally compose their own music.

Kintamani Dogs

Kintamani Dogs have a distinctive form and character which sets them apart from the average village dog. Whilst they live much the same kind of life as an average village dog, Kintamani dogs have longer hair and dig holes in which to nest their young. Some even live in small caves among the boulders around Kintamani. Nowadays, these good-looking dogs are increasingly sought after as pets. They have a broad face, a flat forehead and flat cheeks. In this way, they resemble the Chinese mountain dog, the Chow Chow, to which recent genetic studies have confirmed; the Kintamani Dog is distantly related.

Appearance

Common fur colors include white, beige, and black. Now officially recognized as a separate canine breed, the Kintamani looks something like a mix between the Samoyed and a solid white Malamute. Breeders often confine the dogs to cold dark caves near the Kintamani volcano, insisting it an essential step in developing the thick white coat of Balis only official breed.

The typical physical appearances of Kintamani and Bali street dogs. The withers height of the female Kintamani dog is 4050 cm, 4555 cm for the male. The stature of the Bali street dog is similar. The desired physical traits of the Kintamani dog include erect ears, forwardly curved tail held at the midline, medium to longhaired coat, almond-shaped brown eyes, and black skin pigment. The most desired coat color is white with apricot-tipped ears. However, other coat colors, such as black, are accepted. Bali street dogs come in many colors and coat patterns, and they are almost always shorthaired and straight to curve tailed. Both still whelp in burrows dug into the earth, a feral dog trait. However, the Bali street dog cannot be reliably tamed, even when taken as a puppy. In contrast, the Kintamani dog is gentle around people, yet retains enough assertive behavior to render it a noteworthy (but not vicious) watchdog.

Padangbai

Padangbai is a small town in eastern Bali, Indonesia. It serves as a ferry port for travel to Lombok, The Gilis and other of the Lesser Sunda Islands. It is also a lovely beach town that is popular with those who prefer a small town atmosphere over the large scale beach party that is Kuta.

Besides the beach near the ferry terminal there is a beach just to the north known locally as the Blue Lagoon and the especially nice Secret Beach just to the south of town. These pleasant beaches have clusters of small family owned warungs that will be glad to prepare a meal and serve beer.

Bali Jatra Festival

Bali Jatra (or Bali Yatra) literally means "journey to Bali". This festival is held in Orissa, particularly in the city of Cuttack, to mark the day when ancient Sadhabas (Oriya mariners) would set sail to distant lands of Bali, as well as Java, Sumatra, Borneo (all in Indonesia), and Sri Lanka for trade and cultural expansion.

The festival is held during Kartik Purnima in October and November, for a period of five days right before the full moon. This is the specific time that was considered auspicious by the Sadhabas to begin their voyage in vessels called Boitas.

In Cuttack, Bali Jatra is celebrated annually as a large, open, fair near the Barabati fort area. There are several attractions for children, and food stalls selling Oriya delicacies, and other vendors selling toys, curiosities, and other gifts. Children float toy boats made of colored paper, dried banana tree barks, and cork in the Mahanadi river, ponds, and water tanks, to commemorate the voyage of their ancestors to Indonesia. These toy boats, that are usually launched after sunset with small oil lamps, lit and placed inside them, provide a very attractive sight during the festival.

This festival is also celebrated with great fanfare in Paradeep, Puri, and Bhubaneswar. Bali Jatra bears testimony to the rich maritime legacy of ancient Orissa. It is also known as Boita Bandana Utsav, or the "festival of boats".

Bali dance

Bali dance

In Hindu the dance is an accompaniment to the perpetual dissolving and reforming of the world. The creative and reproductive balance is often personified as Shivas wife, Durga, sometimes called Uma, Parvati, or Kali. This has significance in Balinese Hinduism, since the common figure of Rangda is similar in many ways to Durga. In Bali there are various categories of dance (i.e. barong, legong, kecak) including epic performances such as the omnipresent Mahabharata and Ramayana.

Bali dancers learn the craft as children from their mothers as young as age 4 (see a nine years old dancer on the right). In Balinese dance the movement is closely associated with the rhythms produced by the gamelan, a musical ensemble specific to Java, Bali and Malaya.

Multiple levels of articulations in the face, eyes, hands, arms, hips, and feet ate coordinated to reflect layers of percussive sounds. The number of codified hand positions and gestures, the mudras, is higher in India than in Java or Bali. It has been speculated that they have been forgotten as the dance was transmitted from India to Java. Hand positions and gestures are nonetheless as important in Javanese and Balinese dance as in India. Whether in India, Indonesia or Cambodia, hands have a typically ornamental role and emphasize the dances delicate intricacy.

Tanah Lot is a famous rock formation of Bali island

Tanah Lot is a famous rock formation off the Indonesian island of Bali. It is home of a famous pilgrimage temple, the Pura Tanah Lot and a popular picture motiv for tourists.

Tanah Lot means "Land in the Middle of the Sea" in Balinese language. Located about 20 km from Denpasar, the temple sits on a huge offshore rock which has been shaped continuously over the years by the ocean tide.

Tanah Lot is said to be the work of the 15th century priest Nirartha. The story goes that during his travels along the south coast he saw the rock-islands beautiful setting and rested there. Some fishermen saw him, and bought him gifts. Nirartha then spent the night on the little island. Later he spoke to the fishermen and told them to build a shrine on the rock for he felt it to be a holy place to worship the Balinese sea gods.

The Tanah Lot temple was then built and has been an important part of Balinese mythological history for centuries. The temple is one of seven sea temples around the Balinese coast. It was said that each of the sea temples was to be within eyesight of the next so that they formed a chain along the south-western coast.

At the base of the rocky island, poisonous sea snakes are believed to guard the temple from evil spirits and intruders. There is said to be one giant snake which also protects the temple. It is believed that this snake was created from Nirarthas scarf when he established the island.

The area leading to Tanah Lot is highly commercialised and people are required to pay to enter the area. To reach the temple, visitors must walk through a carefully planned set of Balinese market-format souvenir shops which cover each side of the path down to the sea. On the mainland cliff tops, restaurants are built for the tourists to relax.

Bangli a part of Bali

Bangli is a regency (kabupaten) of Bali, Indonesia. It has an area of 520.81 km and population of 197,210 (2004). Its regency seat is Bangli. Up till 1907, Bangli was one of the nine kingdoms of Bali. The capital has a famous Hindu temple, the Pura Kehen, which dates from the 11th century. Bangli also has one nice village, lies surround a hill, Demulih.

From the Demulih hill, we can see a vast majority of Bali Island, particularly on its Southern part - Kuta, Nusa Dua, Gianyar and apart of Klungkung.

The Balinese script

The Balinese script is an abugida that was used to write the Balinese language, an Austronesian language spoken by about three million people on the Indonesian island of Bali. The use of the Balinese alphabet has mostly been replaced by the Roman alphabet, and very few people are familiar with it. It is mostly used for religious writings.

The Balinese script was probably derived from Pallava and Old Kawi alphabets, which ultimately were derived from the Brahmi alphabet, the root of almost all the Indic and Southeast Asian abugidas.

Like most abugidas, each letter has an inherent vowel of /a/. Other vowels are indicated by using diacritics, which can appear above, below, to the left, or to the right of the consonant.