Residents carry gebogan around the village at the opening of the Penglipuran Village Festival 2025 in Penglipuran Tourism Village, Bangli, Bali, on July 10, 2025. Antara/Fikri Yusuf TEMPO.CO, Jakarta ...

Imagine a village in Bali so clean that it makes you question every street you have ever walked on. Welcome to Penglipuran, tucked away in the highlands of Bangli Regency, where cobbled streets, ...

Not everyone is able to make an offering as large as the Banten Gebogan. Thus, they may prefer the smaller and simpler Banten Sodaan — a dakshina that contains only a few fruits and "Canang Sari" — ...

The Balinese traditional calendar marks the beginning of a new year on 11 March 2024, when the island will enter a day of complete stillness. During the Day of Silence or Nyepi Day, the island turns ...

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I’ve been to Bali many times, and many times stumbled over or around the little woven baskets left on footpaths, piled with decapitated flowers and reeking of incense that curls in the air like the ...

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Any tiddly doorway might have an offering; a one-pump petrol station, a shrine. At a waterfall, the spray is incense-scented, and a banyan tree is garlanded with flowers. The Balinese year is drunk ...