This was the surprise i was hiding from most of my friends. This year my family and I celebrated Deepavali in Bali for the first time. Never expected this Deepavali would be a unique one....
Actually its more of a vacation trip rather than celebration trip....The spectacular and breathtaking views of the seaside makes Bali a wonderful place to visit. The Hindu-majority area in Bali doesn't seem to amaze me to be honest. This is because their lifestyle and culture is very much different than ours.
Traveled there by air-asia???
Yes, for the first time (and definitely my last time) I traveled on a air-asia ticket. Why so? Well, MAS flights are fully booked and this was our only choice.
How was the experience???
Well....it's truly a memorable flight. The journey to Bali was fine but when coming back home was otherwise. The journey to KL left us starving to death because the food we wanted to order in the plane was finished and we were only left with a sandwich and maggi me and a 100ml of water on a 2 hour-50 minute flight! Luckily the food we had on the journey to Bali was pre-booked online.(like the chicken rice??)
What kind of culture they had compared to ours?
1. The Hindu Balinese praying altar is just a decorated empty chair and they pray to it by imagining that the God is sitting on it.
2. The vibhuthi our the forehead is usually white ashes, but theirs is actually rice!(i was puzzled at how it can stick on the forehead for a long period of time.....)
3. The 'Galungan dan Kuningan' is a two different day festival on October which is very grand in Bali(similar to the Deepavali in Malaysia) There were hundreds of beautiful hanging garlands of leaves on each houses, shops, etc. to light up the festivities.
No doubt their culture is unique in their way, but I bet Balinese hindus are very religious and cast-orientated. Practically I can see temples at almost every corner of Bali and some of the road-side temples have priests to bless passers-by who come to pray. But whenever there is prayers or special dance in the temple, the Brahmins are the one who should be on the front line then followed by the others!
Whatever the situation may be, Bali is still the great place to visit and to witness the wonders of picturesque nature and undivided culture.
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4 comments:
well as u say they r very religious.They will not leave a house knowing there is some one there to do the prayers to their diaties.Hello I m your best friend and i found out a day befor the flight........:P Any ways i do hope u had a wonderful holiday in Bali knowing the Hindu culture far to the east.Makes you wonder what or how would it have been, a thousand years ago where Hinduisme broden its wings up to Bali
Kind regards,
Haansel
thx haansel....its quite a memorable experience there ;)
i'm so gonna kill u...Bali is so like one of my favourite destination and u went there earlier than me...anyways i know u would have had so much fun there...
hehe...thx luvain...ya it was gr8....u betta visit bali...its a must see place b4 u die...hahaha
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