Bali

Since Julia Roberts visited Bali for her shooting, there is a new term for Bali. It is called as Island of Love! Bali Governor, Made Mangku Pastika, said this on Saturday in Denpasar. He said this new term will make easier to promote Bali to the world. For your information, Bali has many terms such as Island [...]

It has been couple weeks since Julia Roberts took shoot in Bali for her movies “Eat, Pray, Love”. This movies based on true story of Elizabeth Gilbert. For this movies, many places in Bali had been visited and seems Julia Roberts enjoyed her acting in those places. Kuta beach and Batur lake are some places where [...]

On 2012 you can visit Bali to attend International Film Festival that will be held there. This festival will be attended by hundred of countries on the world. I Made Santha, as Chief Agency of Culture and Film, said Bali will prepare many things for that event. One of preparation is trying to increase the creativity [...]

Many events were held on Bali during July - August 2009. One of them is culture parade which was held on Jembrana. Many attendees came, not only domestic but also abroad. They took participation to introduce their culture to others. This event will be held on Aug 25 2009 - Sept 2 2009. In the same [...]

Well, there are some promotions event that will be held in Beirut, Lebanon. The promotions were supported by  “Pacific Asia Travel Associatoin-PATA” Bali, was did coordination with Indonesia Embassy in Beirut. The promotion will over on April 18 2009.

Well, election day will be held in Indonesia tomorrow. It means, Bali, as part of Indonesia, will also involve in the ‘big’ day. And you know what, many tourists attract to visit Bali even in election day. They said, it is a rare event, so they don’t want to miss it.

Well, the headline maybe quite provocative, but yes, it’s true. Ida Bagus Made Parsa, as Chief of Transportation, Information, and Communicayion, said that. The statement is related with the incoming Nyepi day, Hindunese Saka New Year 1931, on March 26 2009. During that day, all transportation will inactive for 24 hours, from 06.00 WITA on Thursday, [...]

Yesterday, Bali Hindunese celebrated Tumpek Landep, a holly sacrifice to any tools that were made from iron, silver, copper, such as keris (a traditional weapon from Indonesia), and many relics. The ceremony was using flower combined with fruits to complete the ritual. Usually this ritual was held in each home, since each home has the metal [...]

Last week, January 3, Balinese celebrate Saraswati Day. Well, I wrote this celebration last year. One of school that celebrate is Junior High School Sukawati, Gianyar. The students came with traditional dress and prayed, leading by Hindunese leader. The praying was dedicated for Ida Sanghyang Widhi Wasa.

A gathering, maybe it can be set up as annual gathering, had been held in Ubud, Bali. It is scooter gathering, and more 4,000 scooters (and the owner, of course) met. It’s about 400 scooter groups took participate in this gathering, in Astina stadion. There were many events such as modification scooter, talkshow about tips and tricks [...]