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A very interesting and nice journey.
Bali has become a new destination for Eurpean and Australian retirees: a French couple paid 600.000 Euros for a mansion of 700 square meters.
Motorcycles and scooters are the most common transpport for the people: Ni Made Candra is a female mechanic who is fond of the Vespas: there is also a Vespa fan club. Shofian Fian has a Vespa 1979 and every day he drive his son to school and brings him back home with the old Vespa.
Rice is cultivated on terraces: the water supply for irrigation is organized by a local council: the cycle of the rice is about 7 months.
Other interesting aspect of Bali is the bamboo tree: after one year the farmer can harvest: The local luthier Surate makes xylophones. Besides the mamboo is used in the construction of houses: Karen Doerflein and her family enjoy to live in a beautiful natural house made with bamboos.
The monkey forest of Ubud is an interesting place where about 600 macaques are living in 3 Hinduist temples: the legend tells that the KingRhama made an alliance with the King of the Monkeys to fight against the nbad spirits: from then the monkeys are protecting the temples. Nowadays about 4.000 tourists visit this place (the primatologist Sophie Anson is concerned by the impact of mass tourism on the behaviour of the monkeys).
We know the influence of the Hinduist religion in the life of the Balinese people; tey make offerings inside their houses and also outside their houses, there are many ceremonies in the temples and also cleansing rituals (bath in the river): we see also the cremation ritual of a member of the royal family.
I enjoyed very much the encounters of Raphaël with Imd Darma Yasa , a fisherman who int¿vited Raphaël and Antoine Martin to eat fish in his house, with Antoine (the diving moment) , then the encounter witth Gek Arik and the travel to Besakih: the family of Gek who was preparing a ceremony, Raphaël wearing a typical Balinese clothing for the ceremony ((offerings to the gods and th cleansing ritual of all the family in the river, the visit of the Temple of Besakih (which is open to all the people who want to pray),the women wear their nicest clothes and make offerings in the temple.
Then the encounter with Mudra at the Como Shambhala Estate (yoga) and later with the Prince of Ubud Tjokonda Gde Putra Sukuwati at Payangan who shows him the different rooms of the palace (the meeting of 80 princes of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand).
Then the encounter with Dewa Putra Diasa, th founder of a traditional Balinese dance group (Raphaël tries to dance like a female Balinese dancer) and with Kadek, his guide for the climbing of the Batur volcano. I appreciate very much the kindness of all these Balinese men and women.
Motorcycles and scooters are the most common transpport for the people: Ni Made Candra is a female mechanic who is fond of the Vespas: there is also a Vespa fan club. Shofian Fian has a Vespa 1979 and every day he drive his son to school and brings him back home with the old Vespa.
Rice is cultivated on terraces: the water supply for irrigation is organized by a local council: the cycle of the rice is about 7 months.
Other interesting aspect of Bali is the bamboo tree: after one year the farmer can harvest: The local luthier Surate makes xylophones. Besides the mamboo is used in the construction of houses: Karen Doerflein and her family enjoy to live in a beautiful natural house made with bamboos.
The monkey forest of Ubud is an interesting place where about 600 macaques are living in 3 Hinduist temples: the legend tells that the KingRhama made an alliance with the King of the Monkeys to fight against the nbad spirits: from then the monkeys are protecting the temples. Nowadays about 4.000 tourists visit this place (the primatologist Sophie Anson is concerned by the impact of mass tourism on the behaviour of the monkeys).
We know the influence of the Hinduist religion in the life of the Balinese people; tey make offerings inside their houses and also outside their houses, there are many ceremonies in the temples and also cleansing rituals (bath in the river): we see also the cremation ritual of a member of the royal family.
I enjoyed very much the encounters of Raphaël with Imd Darma Yasa , a fisherman who int¿vited Raphaël and Antoine Martin to eat fish in his house, with Antoine (the diving moment) , then the encounter witth Gek Arik and the travel to Besakih: the family of Gek who was preparing a ceremony, Raphaël wearing a typical Balinese clothing for the ceremony ((offerings to the gods and th cleansing ritual of all the family in the river, the visit of the Temple of Besakih (which is open to all the people who want to pray),the women wear their nicest clothes and make offerings in the temple.
Then the encounter with Mudra at the Como Shambhala Estate (yoga) and later with the Prince of Ubud Tjokonda Gde Putra Sukuwati at Payangan who shows him the different rooms of the palace (the meeting of 80 princes of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand).
Then the encounter with Dewa Putra Diasa, th founder of a traditional Balinese dance group (Raphaël tries to dance like a female Balinese dancer) and with Kadek, his guide for the climbing of the Batur volcano. I appreciate very much the kindness of all these Balinese men and women.
- zutterjp48
- Jan 21, 2023
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