Still it surrounds by beautiful garden with home grown fruit trees. About 15 minutes drive from the heart of Ugud, Sebali has easy access to the rural atmosphere of Balinese on its villages, beautiful rice field, and tropical forest. An infinity pool blends with tranquil water features while its four special suites combining en-suite bathrooms. An open air living area enable you to spend your tired day within friendly kitchen besides its games room and table tennis room.

The parking yard is enough for three or four cars while it leads you to breathtaking dining area for up 12 persons. It giving you easy access to the garden and stepped down to living area. The bedrooms divide into Sky bedroom suite where luxury carved on its ceiling and its terrace. A large dressing area couples bathroom with alfresco bathing experience. Its Forest Bedroom Suite caters twin bed sleeping or you can join them into one double bed as your wish. This room has direct access to the sweet addition of library room. Library room offers nice watching time with flat TV, books, games, and cozy sitting. The third bedroom named Sunset as it offers double bed accommodation as well the last bedroom named Sunrise Suite. Both of them equipped by dressing area, en-suite bathroom and nice timing to watch the sun.

This day is also believed as the day of gods purification of in the ocean to bring amarta (water of life) for people prosperity. Nyepi is coming from silent word. It began around 78 AC base on Saka calendar. In this Nyepi Day, all of Hindu people in Bali wished to contemplate to get a new soul. Therefore all of activities in Bali are stopped except ones in hospitals.

There are two ceremonies that hold before and after Nyepi day. Melasti ceremony holds two to three days before Nyepi day. This day all of ceremony equipments in pura brought to the water sources such as lakes, rivers or ocean. The water sources believed it can clean any dirt. Second ceremony that held before Nyepi Day is Bhuta Yajna ceremony. Bhuta Yajna ceremony is a ceremony to expel evil spirits by making Bhuta Kala statues. The statues usually called ogoh-ogoh. Ogoh-ogoh then lifted by some people to circle villages around. The ceremony is usually held at six at noon until 12 AM.

If you want to see the wayang kulit show, which is the famous Bali’s traditional shadow puppet drama, you can watch the show which is usually performed after dark in a temple courtyard or village meeting place. For the Balinese people, puppets has the pride of place in religious festivals as well as weddings and cremations. This show is usually performed by a dalang, or puppet master, and the story is usuakky single-handed. The dalang will usually use different voices and a large number of characters from its own puppet collection that he owns.

The puppet master is highly respected by the community and believed to be blessed with magic powers.
Stories are sourced from Hindu epics mixed with current events, designed to entertain and inform, with a blend of good and evil characters. Puppets are made from buffalo skin, perforated like lace to enhance lighting effects. Wayang Kulit has been designated a masterpiece of human heritage by UNESCO.

Gamelan orchestras provide the traditional accompaniment to puppet theatre, Balinese dance and all religious rituals. They include xylophones and metallophones, drums, bamboo flutes, gongs and strings, all tuned to play together in a specific orchestra. Instruments are kept in the village open hall to symbolise community ownership.

Different types of gamelans are played across Indonesia. The Balinese version is characterised by fast tempo change and among its favourite styles includes the repetitive ‘monkey chant’ and the modern gong kebyar with male and female instruments. Except in the most sacred melodies, today’s players enjoy adding an innovative twist to traditional tunes.

Welcoming by wooden gate, Wolas offers the choices of one bedroom and two bedroom villas in accord with your need. The villas have been supported by fine restaurants, spa and spacious parking lot to give you real sanctuary in this island. The villas are bringing a set of entertaining facilities like personal TV with numerous satellite channels, DVD player and WiFi internet connection.

A private pool is also attached for private swimming time with friends and family. Professional service of the staff is completing your perfect living in Wolas where 24 hour security is keeping you as well 24 hour butler service. Restaurant on-site is available on its 40 seats overlooking to the fish pond. Relaxing sound of water feature will accompany you there while private meals are under professional service of the butler. Spa treatment and massage are giving you perfect rejuvenation in-house without any difficulties of driving anywhere.

The holy spring is Tirta Empul in Tampak Siring, Gianyar. The other spring is Toyo Bungkah. This natural spring lies around Batur Lake, Kintamani. Toyo Bungkah is a perfect stop if you are looking for hot water spring to rejuvenate your mind. Toyo Bungkah is known of having hot water therapy to cure skin illness and international disease.

The beauty of hill and greenery are being plus value of visiting Toyo Bungkah. It placed in Kintamani, nearby Terunyan traditional village. Yeh Panes is another option of warm spring in Penebel Village, Tabanan. This hot spring is proved containing by minerals and phosphorus for health and healing.

Puppetry is a very ancient art form, thought to have originated about 30,000 years ago. Puppets have been used since the earliest times to animate and communicate the ideas and needs of human societies. Some historians claim that they pre-date actors in theatre. There is evidence that they were used in Egypt as early as 2000 BC when string-operated figures of wood were manipulated to perform the action of kneading bread. Wire controlled, articulated puppets made of clay and ivory have also been found in Egyptian tombs. Hieroglyphs also describe “walking statues” being used in Ancient Egyptian religious dramas. The oldest written record of puppetry can be found in the written records of Xenophon dating from around 422 BC.

In Bali itself the puppet show or puppetry is known as Wayang. It is a sacred performing art since the performing art in Bali becomes an arena of transmitting the basic philosophical thought to the audience. The audience is perceived as coming from three realms of world (the realm of gods, the realm of human being, and the realm of underworld). The existence of wayang characterizes much of the Balinese ritual, from ceremonies for pregnancy to the rituals for weddings. These rituals serve the function of harmonizing the three worlds, often utilizing wayang as the main instrument. As a sacred performing art in Bali, there are numbers of purification ceremonies for the wayang, puppeteer, gender –Balinese traditional music instrument-, and the gamelan players. Before the wayang is performed, certain purification ceremonies will be carefully conducted.

But you should not worry, you can see any kinds of butterflies in Butterfly Park Tabanan. At first you will welcome by spacious parking yard and an entrance locket. You are only need to pay about 25,000 rupiah to visit this interesting site. Here you can see tens kinds of butterflies. They have various sizes starts from the small one until the biggest one as big as your hands. Local people usually called it barong butterfly due to it has big wings and spooky motive. This park lies in Tabanan Regency, Bali about 30 kilometers from Denpasar. It needs about 45 minutes by driving.

When you are going there, a fresh countryside atmosphere is welcoming you. This park flanked by rice fields as it supports the butterfly habitat. The spacious park grows by many kinds of foliage and artificial ponds. Some butterflies are releasing among the tropical park while some special species living in a big cage. If you want to hold the butterflies, you can ask the staff. The staff then will rub pheromone serum on your hands to attract butterflies.

Being creme de la creme, among a few best of the best, is The Temple Hill. Perched on a steep hill above Jimbaran Bay, The Temple Hill features 8 luxuriously appointed private villas each with large private swimming pool. Carefully designed to maintain a perfect balance among comfort, luxury, and style, each Bali villas in the complex has minimalist contemporary design without leaving its root to the characters of Bali both as a tropical paradise island as well as its cultural heritage.

Each villa at The Temple Hill is adequately equipped with modern amenities to ensure a comfortable stay that includes a fully equipped kitchen allowing you to choose between cooking your meals yourself or being served by our professional house-chef which you can hire as an additional option. Always an alternative is Pepe Nero, a fine dining restaurant located within The Temple Hill Complex.

Being the option especially for dinner is to dine out on the beach at one of a long string of grilled seafood restaurants along the beautiful beach at Jimbaran Bay which are reachable within only 7 minutes walk or 3 minutes drive.

Consists of 4 units of four bedrooms villas, 3 units of 3 bedrooms villas, and 1 unit of two bedrooms villa, The Temple Hill has something for you no matter the size of your group. If you are coming in a larger group that needs more than 4 bedrooms then you can combine more than one units adjacent to each other.

Perang Pisang ceremony is an event to choose chairman and vice chairman of a youth group in this village. Perang Pisang will test mental and discipline of the candidates before they are being leaders. Perang Pisang holds in the third month of Tenganan calendar. Before Perang Pisang begins all of teenagers in this village obliged to pick up bananas in the village.

Perang Pisang accommodates a war between 16 boys who had chosen by Kelian Adat to fight the candidate of chairman and vice chairman of the teenager group. They wearing custom clothes such as kamben and udeng. They are in shirtless condition while they are waiting command to attack. All of people asked to border the road which will pass by both candidates. Perang Pisang enlightened by gamelan Bali voice that played by the village elders.