Dreamland Beach, Romantic Place for Couple

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Dreamland Beach... Woa! Whoever coming here, the eyes will be greeted by beautiful panorama. The overlaying of white sand and a big wave presenting a fantastic view that touch every heart of tourists. This area is very clean with high cliffs in front of the beach. When the sun illuminates the sea water, it is like bluish beach. Moreover, in the afternoon, there is a dazzling sunset which can astound the tourists. The atmosfer of the beach is romantic and also very suitable for honeymoon or couple who just spending holiday.
Dreamland Beach exist in the the area of Pecatu Graha, in Bukit Unggasan, Badung. To go there, visitors can pass Uluwatu street where it is stil one lane with Garuda Wisnu Kencana. The trip to this beach takes about 25  minutes from Ngurah Rai Airport or 45 minutes from capital city Denpasar.  The visitors can go by car or motorcycle. Entering parking area, the visitors only pay IDR 5.000 per vehicle.
This beach offers good nuance and comfortable situation. Usually this situation is used by surfing lover who want explore the big and wonderful wave.  Tourists that coming here also enjoy the scenery while sitting down or just laying on the sand. Even, this place once used as movie set and photo shooting for prewedding. “Most tourists who coming are foreigner such as Australia, China and Hawai. they choose this place because the situation is not too crowded,” said Wayan Supadmi the owner of artshop in Dreamland.
When travelling here, the visitors can order service that offer swiming tools and umbrela. Beides, there are also souvenir shops which sell dress, hut, bracelets, neclace, beach clothes, sandal and others ornament. “If the tourists want to stay for a long period, there are cheap accomodation around here,” revealed Supadmi.

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Nungnung Waterfall

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Nungnung Waterfall is a beautiful tourism object to visit. It is located in Banjar Nungnung, Pelaga Village, Petang Distric, in  northen part of Badung Regency. The height of this waterfall is about 70 meter with fresh water and cool weather. Whoever visiting this waterfall will be able to experience exciting trip. It is because along the trip it will pass the lush green rice field and plantation.
The distance to this tourism object is 45 kilometers or about 1 and a half hours from capital city of Denpasar. First, the tourists can take Ahmad Yani street toward Sangeh Village, then continued going to Pelaga Village until arrive at  Banjar Nungnung. On the left side of the road, the visitor will find intersection with  the sign "Nungnung Waterfall". After that, turn right about 500 meters to enter parking area and ticket counter. Then the trip continued by on foot about 15 minutes through 540 stairs.
The American Guest named Janean said that she wanted to come to this waterfall for a long time. She knew this place from her tour guide and asked the map of the place. "This waterfall is beautiful with interesting trip. Here is clean and fresh. This make me want to feel the water by swimming," he revealed happily.
While the ticket officer, Made Gara said, the place is often visited by local and foreign tourist. "Foreigners mostly come from America, Holland and Australia. Besides that, there are also local from Denpasar, Badung and sometimes Java."
Beside waterfall, Gara explain, there is also a cave as the Dutch colonial heritage and small temple as shrine of god Wisnu. The temple was build when Nunung Waterfall opened and promoted as tourism object in 1996 by Badung Goverment. "Every Purnama Karo, there is ceremony called odalan, sometimes this ceremony attract tourist attention. Moreover, this waterfall is getting better since the stairs had been improved in 2012," he said. 

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Bali Art Festival on BaliSpirit.com

The Annual Bali Arts Festival - A Feast for the Eyes and Senses

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Every year, from mid-June to mid-July the PKB (Pesta Kesenian Bali or Bali Arts Festival) comes to the Werdi Budaya Art Center, Jalan Nusa Indah in East Denpasar. Nightly there are performances of both traditional and contemporary dance and music at a number of the six theatre venues here. During the day, beginning at 10:00 a.m. the handicraft and food stalls open, showcasing the best of each regency, with delights for everyone of every age. In the late morning rare forms of music and dance from all over the island are shown - a great time to see some great performances. This year nearly twenty groups from outside Indonesia will also be strutting their stuff. And all of this is for free!
In 1979, Bali's governor, the esteemed and loved Prof. Ida Bagus Mantera, opened the very first Bali Arts Festival on June 20th. He stated that “the Bali Arts Festival should take its place as the basic forum for the growth of our love of the arts.” As the arts are such an integral part of the culture, Prof. Mantera wanted to see it celebrated in a place that would be accessible to all. To promote this, most performances are free of charge to the public and those where tickets are necessary are sold at an affordable price to most people.

Each part of Bali has its unique art forms; the weaving of Sidemen, the jegog bamboo gamelan orchestra of Negara in West Bali and the genyek singing of Karangasem in the East. Most Balinese have never seen these forms and this venue was born to who both Balinese and visitors to Bali the rich cultural heritage this tiny island has to offer.
The festival begins with its s Grand Parade on opening day, starting from the Bajra Sandhi Puputan field in Renon and ending at the Denpasar Art Centre. Each regency is represented with a gamelan orchestra and people dressed in their regional dress. Often tall, towering offerings are carried of the heads of colorfully dressed women, once again showing what e diversity Bali has to offer. Balinese from all over the island come to watch this parade and it is televised on local TV. It's good idea to get to Renon early in order to get front row seat. Bring hat and an umbrellas as well as a camera. This year it begins at 3:30 pm on Saturday, June l7th (time subject to change).
At the Art Centre itself, exhibitions are set up in the two main halls. Competitions are held of food, costumes, offering making, and pop singing in the indoor Ksiranawa Theater. Performances are held in the huge outdoor Ardha Candra amphitheatre, the wantilan (a small, in the round traditional space), the tetaring Stage outside the Ardha Candra, the Ayodya stage in the old kecak arena in the northeast corner and in front of the exhibition hall by the river.
The Balinese love to go see the big dance drama spectacles put on by High School and College of performing Arts. These sendratari usually depict stories form the Ramayana or Mahabharata and are performed on the immense outdoor Ardha Candra stage on opening and closing nights.
Another popular event is the show from the winners of the kebyar gamelan competition. The top four winners from the nine different areas get to perform: two orchestras pitted against each other on the same stage. If there is intense rivalry amongst the regencies, this can be quite a noisy affair (from the audience, not the orchestra). One year the musicians had to wear helmets as they kept getting pelted with tomatoes and eggs from the “opposing teams'“ fan club. Not to worry, the committee now makes sure that the two gamelan groups are not from rival areas.
Some of the most exquisite performances are those done at the Wantilan and the outdoor stages in the evenings and those in the late morning. Here you often find forms, which are dying out, watched by only a handful of people but the spirit of the performance, can be quite moving. No tomato throwing here!
One of the favorites is the Old Masters night when performers who have devoted their life to an art form are honored. More often than not, theses artists are over 70, and some have to be helped onto the stage to manipulate a puppet or play an instrument but once in their element, the fluidity of their limbs returns. Please realize that often the times of designated performances, especially those in the mornings, can change or be cancelled.
This Article was written for Balispirit.com by Published author and Ethnographer, Ibu Rucina Ballinger

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Tanah Lot Temple

Tanah Lot Temple is located in coastal side of Beraban countryside, Kediri sub district and Tabanan Regency. It is situated in 30 Km in west side of Denpasar town and about 11 Km in south side of Tabanan town. The temple is built on the rock with 3 acre size and reachable in a few minute by walk, because it is just 20 meters from the coastal lip. This temple is very famous among tourist destinations in Bali with spectacular view of sunset. At some nooks of coral reef around Tanah Lot Temple there are holy tame snake in black and white color where according to the local society believe that it as a deity property and as the guard of the temple from the bad influence.

Philosophy

The word of Tanah Lot is consisted of two words that are Tanah word interpreted as a reef looking like gili or isle. Lot or Lod word has meaning the sea. So Tanah Lot is meaning the small island floating on the sea. The location is now called as Tanah Lot has been used at a Megalithic period as a place that looked into holy, proven from the existence of menhir. Pursuant to environmental condition, hence the structure of Tanah Lot Temple is built at irregular reef plain of its angle which is only consisted of one plain yard as Jeroan.

Function

The function of this temple can be realized from the function of the main temple building which is located in the temple main area. In this place, there is a main temple to worship the god in form of Dewa Baruna or Bhatara Segara, the sea power. The media of worship to this god is the temple building with 5 storied meanwhile the 3 storied temple building in north part of this area is purposing to worship to Dang Hyang Nirartha.

In order to know the status of Tanah Lot Temple can be realized from the temple history, function and also incoming devotee existence pray when temple ceremony is held. In this case can be realized as follows:

• Tanah Lot Temple as dang Kahyangan(the big Holy Temples in Bali ), because the history and the Penyiwi (The people taking care of the temple) are from the local people from Tabanan regency and surrounding area
• Tanah Lot temple as Segara Temple, because its function as sanctum to worship the Bhatara Segara, the God with manifestation as the ocean Power Deity

The unique animal can be seen in this temple area is the snake which are generally can be met in the coast. Part of its stomach there are no athwart skin, there is only small skin, but this sea water snake very noxious but snakebite case are very seldom happened, because the sea water snake generally very passive.

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The best artwork at the Bali Arts Festival

The best artwork at the Bali Arts Festival

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Bali Arts Festival (Pesta Kesenian Bali/PKB) is an annual event by the Provincial Government of Bali which aims to preserve the arts in Bali, by providing a container for staging artistic creations of art groups. In addition, PKB also aims to promote tourism in Bali, by presenting and stage arts every day, so it provides a great opportunity for tourists who want to know all sorts of arts in Bali.

In 2014, the Bali Arts Festival (Pesta Kesenian Bali/PKB) will take place from June 14 to July 12, with the theme Kertamasa, with meaning: Dynamics of Life Community Agriculture Towards Prosperity Universe. Art displayed from nine districts in Bali. Each district will feature all the best artwork owned. With the help and support of the local government regency, all the artists will be assisted ranging from funding and support all their activities while displaying their best art at the Bali Arts Festival.

Every regency in Bali, characterized artistic respectively. Although Bali is a small island, but it has different variety in each regency. Art held in each regency to grow and evolve based on geography, natural conditions, and social activities. For example, in Jembrana regency has a distinctive musical art called Jegog. Jegog is the music of bamboo with the structure and number of personnel similar to gamelan music group. Jegeg grow and thrive in Jembrana regency because it has a bamboo plant very much. That's where the art of growing and developing.

One of the performing arts most popular and favored by tourists is Joged Bumbung. It belongs to the art of dance accompanied by bamboo music with a lot of personnel. Joged Bumbung preferred and desirable because the audience can come to interact and dance, other terms are ngibing. Dancers are usually female, the audience is invited to dance usually are men, although there is also an audience of women who come to dance to the stage. Sometimes there are funny scenes performed by the dancers is fixed so that the audience laughing and happy.

The most prestigious art performances at the Bali Arts Festival is a music contest Kebyar Gong. GongKebyar is a gamelan orchestra that involves a lot of personnel. This art is very attractive to watch because it presents a very exotic musical art.

Bali Arts Festival (Pesta Kesenian Bali/PKB) makes the Balinese people always move and creativity to fulfill our lives. Thus the activity and artistic creativity to produce creative works and Balinese art will never cease, to explore and develop new ideas, whether it is the idea of art barn and in day to day activities, in order to connect the continuity of life. Excavation and development of new ideas in art, used to offset the distribution of foreign culture as a whole due to globalization.

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