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Already dark the festival keeps going on - all over the night time.

People often stay the whole night for the Odalan celebration, kids get asleep in the arms of the parents.

Women carrying offerings (banten) to the beach to be placed within the inner sanctum.

Pictorial sunset scenes are famous on Bali beaches like here during the Odalan celebration.

Praying to the sea side direction to beg for inspirations of good ghosts.

Somewhere on Bali nearly every day its performed an Odalan to invite the temple's deities to visit so that they can receive the peoples devotion.

The anniversary rite, or Odalan, can be seen somewhere on Bali like here at the Seseh beach.

Balinese people don't make regular visits to a temple except on its anniversary, a three-day-celebration held at the beach after the Luhur Ulun Siwi temple, one of 20,000 temples on Bali.

On the way to the beach festival.

Scenes in front of the temples entrance. Women carrying their sacrificial offerings to the beach side.

Before their meditation on the beach side people do their orison inside the temple.

The principal gate (kori agung) of this temple is built with wings, something that very similar in construction to the Pura Luhur Uluwatu on the Bukit, except that it is made of brick instead of coral stone. There is a close connection between these two temples, and it is said that one should pray at Pura Ulun Siwi before proceeding to Pura Uluwatu.

This temple must be special because it faces east, rather than south. During the prayers, the worshipper face west, rather than to the north, to Gunung Agung, as is the usual practice. This is due to the fact that the temple, once a primitive shrine, became a Hindu-Balinese temple fairly early, in the 11th century.

The access to the temple wasn't allowed for non-hinduist people, but it was welcomed to look inside to the many praying people.

Traditional architecture in Bali derives from two sources. One is the great Hindu tradition brought to the island from India via Java. The second is an indigenous architecture pre-dating the Hindu epic and in many ways reminiscent of Polynesian building. Even the Balinese temple, it has been noted, is surrounded by a stone wall dividing its sacred precincts from the village very much like Hawaiian and Tahitian places of worship.

Women bring sacrificial offerings to the beachside.

On the way to the Odalan celebration, wearing the traditional Udeng on his head.

Al over the island of Bali more than twenty thousand temples are located. Many private properties have the own temple.