Bali Tour Guide

We depart from Kuta earlier to see temple ceremony in Sakenan , located in Serangan turtle island. When we arrived, there were already load of people coming. Now, all of them come with cars and motorcycles as bridge has been built to connect this island to Bali. Before they came by boat. (more…)

Galungan Day is one of many ceremonies that celebrated in Bali. Galungan can be considered as the merriest celebration because there many decorations and food involved in it. Ceremonies and praying are held in family’s temples, village temples as well as other bigger temples. (more…)

There were already many cars and even few buses when we arrive at the parking area of the temple. I was not expecting it but suddenly I remember, that day was weekend and just one day before full moon. A good timing to do tirta yatra, spiritual journey, by many Balinese people these days. (more…)

Last Wednesday was my Balinese birthday. I didn’t even remember until my mother called me to be home that night. My Balinese birthday falls on BUDA WAGE UKIR. This is the name of the day based on Pawukon/Wewaran system in Balinese circle calendar system. (more…)

This is a religious event as it is part of the temple anniversary ceremony in one of the temple in Tegalalang village, north part of Ubud. But if you look at the participants of the ceremony you will consider this is a young funky event. The event is locally called ‘ngerebeg’. An event that symbolically to tame the negative forces of ‘demon’ in the village and neutralize them so they won’t disturb the temple anniversary ceremony. (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…)

It is 2007 in Gregorian calendar this year but it is only 1929 in Icaka year. Icaka is the name of the lunar-based Balinese calendar system. Melasti, the purification ceremony is held few days before the new year by almost all of the villages in Bali. (more…)