Praying At Tanah Lot Temple

This day are Kuningan Day, every Balinese came home and praying at them family praying place at their home, we call the place "Merajan". Many different culture activities we have to celebrate this Kuningan Day, at my village usualy after praying we doing "Mesuryak", we are trowing small change into childrens that have waiting to grap those changes money. 

After praying at our Merajan, some of us were going to Tanah Lot. Before we are praying at Tanah Lot Temple, first we pray at Pura Griya Ageng Luhur Pakendungan, second we are praying at Pura Kahyangan Luhur Pakendungan, after that we are praying at Tanah Lot. 

Happy Kuningan's Day to all Balinese

Penjor It's one of Balinese great art culture

Every Galungan an Kuningan day and at Odalan Ceremonies, Balineses makes them great art and very originally "Penjor". usually it's putting in fron them houses and Pura, and also at front of streets enter/ "Gapura". We can found it also in many place like Hotels, Villas, Restaurants, or at wedding ceremony places for welcome the Guess.

A penjor is basically a long tapered bamboo pole that is stood vertically in the ground, often on the roadside, and decorated in coconut leaves. Due to their length of sometimes more than ten metres, they droop charmingly over the pavement like an ancient street lamp.

At Galungan time, Balinese Hindus erect a penjor in front of their houses to symbolise the dominance of good (dharma) over evil (adharma), as well as offering thanks to God for the fruits of the Earth. About halfway down the pole they attach a small cage in the shape of a triangle and made from bamboo, called sanggah cucuk. Offerings are placed in this and it is considered to be a temporary “throne” for the Gods when they come down to Earth for Galungan. If you take a close look at a Galungan penjor, you’ll notice that it’s also ornamented with coconut leaves called sampian and also long strips of white and yellow material to symbolise that it is a holy offering.

There many kind of Penjor depend the place culture, different place different Penjor, it is are Balinese community creativity, so thats makes the different.

The cost of making Penjor also in variation, many claim it about hundreds rupiahs, but some claim their penjor cost millions rupiahs.

Kuningan Ceremony

On 24 october 2009 Balinese will celebrate Kuningan day. Kuningan takes its name from the fact that a special offering that is presented in this holyday is yellow rice (nasi kuning) is made by colouring ordinary white rice with tumeric (kunyit). Kuningan occurs once in every 210 days in the Balinese Pawukon cycle (traditional Balinese calendar). The Kuningan Day is the time for commemoration as the ancestors return to the heaven after ten days dwelling on earth and the Balinese express their gratitude to gods for His mercy to the human races.

Kuningan is a special day for ancestor worship since it is the last day of ancestor visit to the earth. On this day the deified ancestor will be suitably entertained and welcomed, and prayers and offerings must be made for them. Those families who have uncremated deceased ones buried in the village cemetery must make offerings at the graves. The Kuningan ceremony must be held before noon, since Balinese believes that the ancestors will ascent back to their respective abode at noon. The ceremony will be held in every Balinese’s family temple (sanggah or merajan). A special offering (Banten Kuningan) is made as a sign of respect to the ancestors. The offering consists of yellow rice (nasi kuning), for Balinese yellow is the symbol of greatness and magnificence. Tamiang (a decorative young coconut leaf arrangement resembles a shield), tar (a decorative young coconut leaf arrangement resembles a weapon) and endongan leaf are obligatory decorations of Kuningan. They are hanged below the roof of shrines and houses. They represent the sense of security and awareness of Balinese in facing the life after Galungan period is over.

Kuningan is a private family holyday the ceremony is within the house compound in the shrines of the family temple (sanggah or merajan). Only those who have family ties will attend the ceremony, unlike the cremations or more public processions of village temple ceremonies.

Best Rafting Moment at Bali

At 18 october 2009 me, my fiends and my family going to take rafting adventure activity at Tukad Yeh Ayung, Sangeh, Bali. It was awsome, I saw a very beautiful river there, and with Ramayana story in balinese style sculpture at the clift walls. It takes two and half hour to finish the rafting adventure. It's very great river, very intertaining and less dangerous. There are seven rafting companies there, at that time I take Bahama Rafting Adventure. First Time we get there we will be informed about what to do at rafting activities and how to get safety. We are using four boats because there are twenty of us. Within the journey of rafting many great sight such as clift, sculpture, villa at the river, restaurant side of the river, etc. At the end of the rafting journey we have lunch together and talkin everything about our rafting experiences there. It's very great rafting experience. 

Beautiful Nusa Penida Island at Bali

Nusa Penida, Nusa Ceningan, Nusa Lembongan. Nusa means island. You get here in 40 min by boat. This is the best diving site but it can be tricky sometimes because the currents can reach no less than 5 knots, but usually they are just right for diving. The visibility is always good, 25-40 meters. The reefs outside Toyapekeh at Penida are of world class and well worth a few dives. If you are lucky you will bump into the uncommon gigantic deep sea fish mola mola. Other quite common animals here are manta, shark, large turtles, moray, lionfish and clown triggerfish.

Best Ubud View

Ubud is around 45 minutes drive from the international Ngurah Rai Bali. Ubud is picturesque township and visitors have been attracted by its charm and beauty for decades. The Ubud of today is far from undiscovered. Hotels are plentiful; home stays and Indonesian guesthouses (losmen) are easily available to the foreign tourist. Ubud is popular in part today because it is the best place in Bali to break out of the tourist mode and get off the beaten path. Ubud is attractive to tourists for a variety of reasons. On a relatively small island with a horde of attractions, Ubud is centrally located; many tourists simply base their entire stay in the city and travel to other destinations from Ubud. Accommodations in Ubud are also somewhat more reasonably priced than in the beach towns of Bali. But atmosphere is perhaps the major attractions. One writer sums it up this way: Kuta is madness, Sanur is sterile, and Nusa Dua is culturally isolated; Ubud is the place to go.

Happy Galungan and Kuningan

On Wednesday, Balinese celebrated Galungan Holyday, a holyday to commemorate the victory of Dharma (virtue) over Adharma (evil). This holyday is considered the pinnacle of Balinese struggle to subdue the negative force of evil, and what is called evil here is the sad ripu (six internal enemies), they are kama (lust), loba (greed), krodha (anger), mada (drunkeness), moha (confusion) and matsarya (envy). It is an inward struggle, a struggle to free our mind from the influence of negative force that at the end leads us to do various bad deeds.