29th January 2009
We woke up as early as 8am to catch the van, which will then lead us to a place famous in Bali for it's traditional Barong and Kris dances
a little fact about Barong and Kris dance:
the Barong play represents an internal battle fight between good and evil spirit.
The Barong is a mythical animal who represent the good spirit. The rangda represents the evil counterpart. Balinese people believe good and evil coexist in this world. That is why the following story has no obvious winner.
the Temple area at the foreground
A statue
A very expressive and gentle Balines dancer potraying the scene in the dance
The Rangda
next we head to the a batik factory
The tools and ingredients . (wax and chanting)
in progress
Putting wax on the fabric
Old school songket weaver machine
Indeed it was a tidious job of designing and waxing the fabric and also the coloring
After that we are on our way to Celuk famous for its gold and silver works.
Extremely delicate work not for the fainthearted and the impatience ones
Upclose
Family in front of the extrance to the shop inside
the mad detail on this piece of work is astounding
This is worth Rp290000
After that we were driven to the village of MAS, to witnessed the artwork painting of the people there and also beautiful handcrafted woodwork.
Paddy field
Artist at work
woodcarver at work
the ladies at work
Next up Kintamani Village which is perched on the rim of the Batur volcanic Basin. We all went there for lunch actually and to enjoy the spectacular volcanic mountain
The view of the Batur Volcano from the restaurant where we had our lunch. For your information, it is still active as of today.
Before we head back to our hotel, our tourguide brought us to a place where coffee production is done in Bali.
still the traditional way of roasting coffee beans.
Oh, and we tried luwak coffee too.
All is free except the yellow cup one. That is the cup of luwak coffee(Rp 30000)
That all for day 2. Stay tuned for the last and final day of my Bali trip
2 comments:
i still remember how i used to get confused about bali and phuket. i cant differentiate them
boss: I used to be ignorant last time. I thought bali was at thailand too*smacks own head*
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