Bali Tour Guide

We started the trip from Ubud at 8AM. Our first destination would be Sideman Village. We drove on the road along Telaga Waja River and make some stop on the way to enjoy the beautiful valley view and rice field. That time was clove-harvesting season so we saw many cloves being dried on the side of the road. There were few coco beans also being dried.

After the turn in Sangkan Gunung, I made another stop in my favorite viewpoint corner. From here, we can see the whole green valley of Sideman below us. Line of hill surrounds the valley with Mount Agung on the Northern side. A river stream flow from the north to the sea in the south, like dividing the valley into two. As the weather is clear we can see the blue of the Indian Ocean far in the south. (more…)

There was another wedding in my village few weeks ago. There was no much different than any other Bali wedding but what interest me was the walk that involve on the wedding.

The house of the groom is about 2 km from the bride house. The couple decided to cover the distance on foot instead of by car, like the old days. (more…)

Few weeks go I got a client for photo shooting. It was their wedding day. The bride is natively from Tabanan Regency and the groom is from Northern regency of Buleleng. Both groom and bride are belonging to ‘brahmin’ family.

We started the photo shooting from the bride house. This day, the groom family will be coming to the bridge house, pick up the bride and bring it to the groom house to do the wedding ceremony. There would also several step of ritual would be done in the bride house before. It took about an hour for the bride to do the make and put on the heavy hair dress and colorful Balinese outfits. The groom and the family come on time. A formal meeting between two families is done after a welcome drink given. The meeting was run smooth and the bride family agrees to let their daughter to merry the groom as it was decided on previous meeting. So far the process was normal. Now, it is time for the family to call the bride to join the meeting. During the meeting the bride was staying in inside the room. (more…)