In every villages in Bali, we can easily find line of decorated bamboo pool called “Penjor” which plated and stand beautifully in front of each houses.

In the morning at that day, there are women, men and children all in Balinese traditional dress walk on the street to go to their temple. The women bring offering called “Pajegan” contains of different and colorful fruits, cakes, coconut leaf and flowers which is arranged in a stack about 1 meter high and  put on  their head. When they arrived in the temple, they will pray together lead by the Hindu’s Priest called “Pemangku”.

After finishing they will go back to their own home and to gather with all members of extended family. The members of family and friends who are Moslem, Buddhist and Christian will pay a visit to their Hindus family and together will enjoy Balinese cookies.

Balinese employee will have holidays today. Most of business offices will close their offices. However, Hotels, Restaurants, Travel Agencies will still operate. They have their customers to serve.

Travelers will be going around to take pictures or travel as normal as the other days. But they will be informed that the Hinduism are celebrating their Thanks Giving Day.

Playing kite is very popular in younger generation, because of the power and sense of friendship in which be formed kite player group (sekaa layangan).  Now days, playing kite is expending, children and younger boy played this kite as hobbies, besides as culture preservation.

The meaning of playing kite full of religious valve and society life of Balinese people, and this can we see from the symbol of “Sang Hyang Rare Angon” as the god of wind.

It made a special interesting for the tourist, as an attraction to Tanah Lot especially and Bali generally.

Regarding of the “Tanah Lot Kites Festival 2008” we are honored to invite you to visit this event and spend memorable three days to enjoy the festival with Tanah Lot Temple backgrounds one of famous destination in the islands of paradise, Bali.

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Penglipuran village is well-known for its tidy row of traditional Balinese entrance gates and its unique architectural traditions. The words Penglipuran’ is drived from the words “Pengeling Pura” means a holy place for remembering their ancestors. It is reasonable since their ancestors came from Bayung Gede village, still In Kintamani district. Since from Bayung Gede to Penglipuran is quite along distance there fore the people of Penglipuran, established the same temple as the temple In Bayung Gede.

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The great annual Bali Art Festival 2008 will be on 14th June –12th July 2008 and take places in Art Centre at Denpasar the capital city of Bali province. The Bali Arts Festival is more then a month of daily performances, handicraft exhibitions and other related cultural and commercial activities during which literally the whole of Bali comes to the city to present its offerings of dance, music and beauty.

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“Bintang” mean star. Yes, Bintang Flores Hotel will be a stars in Flores Island. This is the only four-stars hotel in this area. This hotel will be a place truly make you filled with very interesting and memorable experience. One of the superb qualities of this hotel located on the Pede beach in Labuan Bajo Flores near the Komodo Airport. All of its rooms are designed to face the Flores Strait. There are 59 deluxe rooms and two suites. A transparent elevator serves access to the room from where the guest can savor the beauty of the surrounding natural panorama.

The Bintang Flores Hotel is a five-storey hotel set in a spacious tropical garden. Drawing on Indonesian architectural influences with a large swimming pool and private white-sand beach, the hotel will offer complete water-sports facilities in a protected environment suitable for families.

Today, I come to you with a story of religions and each believers who are all Balinese leave in harmony in a community or some of them are in a family. There are about 90% Hindus, 5% are Christian, 3% are Moslem and another 2% are Buddhist. Most of them are originally Balinese, some are Javanese, Flores, Timor, Sumba, Sumatra, Celebes, Irian Jaya who were born in BALI or leave in this Island for years.

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Flores

Finally, they reported to their Captain that the problem has been fixed but they stayed longer because of  the beauty of the sea garden beneath the sea. They have found its colorful sea corals and uncountable colorful fishes. The captain decided to dive and proved it then  named  that island : Cabo da Flora, late become Flores.
Flowers are  not on the island, but under the sea, though we can find a lot of flowers on this island.

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I have witnessed myself when I was in Flagstaff-Arizona, USA in 1980 to enjoy the magnificent beauty of one of the world wonder The Grand Canyon.  I met too many people there but one of them an American tourist, a Russian born who approached me, probably because I was wearing a batik jacket (special design fabric that produced in Java-Indonesia) and asked me where I am from.
I explained that I am from Indonesia. He looked at me and said: “I know, it is in the Philippine“. I replied, no, I told him that it is between the Philippine and Australia. I tried to make a map on the ground to make him know where my Indonesia is. But, again He wanted to show me that He knew it. He said: “Ok Paul, I remember now, it is in Thailand“. When he knew that He was wrong, He asked me: “Where Indonesia is from BALI?“. I answered: “BALI is in Indonesia“.

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Subak is an organization of farmers in an area where rice fields are located to manage water to irrigate their rice fields, includes water supply, and to build a temple.

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