The Taman Budaya Art Centre

The Art Centre (Wedhi Budaya) complex, commenced in 1969 and officially opened for use in 1973, is located in Nusa Indah street. On e...

Tips for Your Holiday in Bali

Is this your first holiday in Bali  ? It is a best decision to spend your holiday in Bali, an island of thousands temples. But, before...

Bale Kulkul in Balinese Architecture

The bale kulkul is a tower-like structure and usually occupies a prominent position in the village. The kulkul itself is a percussive d...

Balinese Palaces

In traditional Hindu cosmology, the territory of the kingdom was conceived, in symbolic terms, as replicating the universe as a whole,...

The Balinese Village

The Balinese village us described by the world desa. This denotes both the settlement and its immediate physical environs ( tanah desa...

Ornamentation and Iconography in Balinese Temples

Balinese temples are enlivened by a variety of stone sculpture and relief which to the Western eye have an almost baroque or rococo qu...

A Typology of Temples

A conservative estimate reckons that there are some 20,000 temples in Bali. Most of the time they are deserted, watched over by a lay priest...

Death and the Afterlife in Bali

Death in Bali is considered to be both ritually polluting and contaminating. These perceptions are reflected in the location of the pura dal...

AJ Hackett Bungy International

Are you someone who likes extreme sport very much? Likes challenge? AJ Hackett is the only answer. If you want to feel the fun extreme sport...

Pigmy Bali Diving

Pigmy Bali Diving offers some of the joyful and unforgettable diving in Bali waters for the divers around the world. Bali offers beautiful c...

Village Temples

Balinese society is complex and multifarious, being divided by social hierarchies based on caste, occupation and descent. In the not so dist...

The Nirartha Legacy in Bali

The promulgation of Hindu and Buddhist doctrines in Bali is attributed to a number of key historical figures typically Brahman priests from ...

Sacred Rice and Subak Temples in Bali

Rice and its cultivation are central to the Balinese way of life. In Balinese eyes, rice is a gift from the gods-it was created by the Hindu...

Sacred Bathing Places in Bali

Water has a special place in Balinese life, not only because of the vital role it plays bin irrigating the island`s rice fields, but also be...

Cave Temples and Rock-cut Sanctuaries in Bali

The practice of carving temple out of solid rock has an ancient history in India dating back to the time of the great Mauryan emperor Ashoka...

Recent History of Bali

The end of the reign of Soeharto in 1998 threw the entire country into a maelstrom of change and turmoil. For some time it seemed that Bali ...

Modern History of Bali

It took Dutch troops five days to reach the outskirts of Denpasar. Surrounded by superior forces, Balinese royalty and religious leaders de...

Pre-20th-Century History

There are few traces of Stone Age people on Bali, although it's almost certain that the island was inhabited very early in prehistoric t...

Yoga in Bali

I recently subjected myself to seven days of stretching and sweating at a yoga retreat on Bali's Bukit Peninsula. Popular with surfers ...

Bali's Ten Best Dive Sites

Bali's dive sites offer great diversity: vertical walls and sand slopes; shipwrecks, steel and wooden; limestone shorelines and black, ...

Legong Keraton

In legends, Legong is the heavenly dance of divine nymphs. Of all classical Balinese ...

Joged

The Joged dance is typically accompanied by a gamelan ensemble of bamboo instruments called ...

Panyembrama

These dances are performed as a welcome to the visiting gods, which are presen...

Baris

The word Baris means line, in the sense of a line of soldiers, and refers to t...

Arja

Arja estimated emerge in the year 1820, at a period of governance of king I Dewa Agung Sakti. Three important phase in Arja growth is: ap...

Ujung Park

Ujung park (garden) start builded in the year 1919 and opened its use in the year 1921. This garden builded by Karangasem King which is us...

Banyuwedang Hot Spring

Banyuwedang Hot Spring Water is located in Buleleng Regency about 60km from Singaraja city, periphery of boundary of area of National Park ...

History of Bali

Bali was inhabited by Austronesia peoples by about 2,000, who migrated originally from Taiwan through Maritime Southeast Asia. Culturally an...

Sangeh

Hi welcome again to Bali Island...! and now on Sangeh Monkey Forest.It is located near to Sangeh village; the renowned 6 hectares of Bali Sa...