Return to Bali the island of demons

There are many places on Bali supplied by the fresh water but only 2 places offer the fresh water with swimming pools one of those is Air Sanih. A paradies place for kids. All Balinese adore kids very much.

A beautiful Chinese temple named Ling Gwan Kion I visited just off the Jalan Erlangga, close to the ocean in the harbor district of Singaraja. This temple is one of the few Chinese temples on Bali. I accessed it via a bridge over a lotus pond. The temple was founded in the year 1873 and has been renovated several times.

West of the town of Singaraja there is an area that is called Kampung Bugis. The area is on the beach. Some Seafood restaurants are built on a footbridge. Bugis people are Muslim people, but this part of Singaraja is a mix of Hindus and Muslims shich have a good reliationship since more than 300 years.

A gentle group of young ladies ask me for this photoshoot and send by LINE to their addresses.

The park is the culture building complex with the best style of Balinese traditional architecture. We visited the park during evening hours when many thousands of Balinese and other national visitors came for the performance during the art festival in July 2015. A local Balinese family in front of the Kori Agung gate.

One of Bali’s major festivals celebrates the return of Balinese gods and ancestors to Bali. For ten days, Balinese families will entertain and welcome with prayers and offerings, along with ceremonies to cleanse and balance the inner and outer energy of the island. Galungan features, among other things, barong dancing from temple to temple in the village. The festival symbolizes the victory of good over evil. The origin of Galungan is a mystery, but essentially it is believed to be the beginning of the week in which the gods and ancestors descend to earth, and good triumphs over evil.

Pantai Pandawa is an holy beach on Nusa Dua where hundreds of local people and visitors from outside bali cam to celebrate an Odalan festival on the beach and the temple nearby. An Odalan is the anniversary or birthday of a Hindu-Balinese temple. A festival that signifies the day the temple was initially completed and the day the gods "sanghyang widhi wasa" were first to be invited to attend.

Throughout the year, each of Bali's temples celebrates its odalan, or anniversary. That adds up to a lot of festivals for spirited travelers to choose from, considering that the island has tens of thousands of temples. The procession is moving to the holy temple at the Pandawa beach on Nusa Dua.

The word "Padi" is Balinese, the English word "Paddy" comes from "Padi". On the way from Singaraja to Pemuteran we passed this beautiful rice fields. Rice is the staple diet of the Balinese. The word nasi (rice) also means "meal". The Balinese cannot really conceive of a meal without rice. The rice growing in the field or rice that has been cut but not threshed, or cut and threshed, but not husked.

Om Swastiastu! Young Balinese worshiper girl before she gets sacrificed from the high priest the pedanda.

Inside the holy center of Pura Poncok Batu temple. A large group of Gamelan musicans playing during the celebration inside the temple premise. Although the popularity of gamelan has declined a bit gamelan is still commonly played in formal occasions and in many traditional Balinese ceremonies.

Opposite of the public bath Air Sanih. People come to celebrate in this temple before enjoying the bath in the public pool of Air Sanih.

Look out the window from my hotel room in POP Hotel in Singaraja.

An statue out of five at the Pandawa beach on Nusa Dua. rjuna refers to the legendary archer Arjuna from the Hindu epic Mahratta, which explains why Juna's weapon against the Raaja is a bow.

Balinese kids everywhere on the island like to proof their English language and beeing photgraphed, looking the result immediatelly on cameras monitor. This boy was one of a group children playing in front of the Chinese temple Ling Gwan Kiong

he sacred hot springs 'Air Panas' of Banjar are set in the midst of the jungle in a beautifully landscaped tropical garden, close to Lovina Beach, and it consist of three public and one private pool. Mostly local people come to enjoy a bath in the holy hot water.

The sacred hot springs 'Air Panas' of Banjar are set in the midst of the jungle in a beautifully landscaped tropical garden, close to Lovina Beach, and it consist of three public pools.

From far away people were listening to the sonority of a big orchester playing the traditionel Balinesian Gamelan music. The word Gamelan comes from the ancient roots "gambel" (Bali) and "gamel" (Java). Gambel means to play, musically. In Indonesian languages define gambel as to make a sound by striking or playing a musical instrument, such as a gong or a drum (in Indonesian Pukul Bunyi Bunyi. Bunyi means to sound. It also means to ring or to blow.