This is basically a story about the struggle between good and evil. Good is personified by the Barong keket, a strange, funloving creature in the shape of shaggy semi lion. Evil is represented by Rangda, a witch. Ultimately, the two characters engage in battle, at which pont the Barong’s keris-bearing followers rush in to attack […]
Posted on June 19th, 2008 by sales
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Kecak is the most unique Balinese dance which is not accompanied by any orchestra/gambelan but by a choir of seventy men it has its origin in an old ritual dance “Sanghyang” or trance dance. In the Sanghyang dance a person in a state of trance communicates with the deities or ancestors. They use the dancers […]
Posted on June 10th, 2008 by sales
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The huge state temple of Pura Taman Ayun surrounded by a wide moat, was the main temple of Mengwi kingdom, which survived until 1891 when it was conquered by the neighboring kngdoms of Tabanan and Badung. The temple was originally built in 1634 and extensively renovated in 1937. It’s very large and spacious, and the […]
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by sales
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