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When You Visit Desa Sri Batu You Could See Coffee Bean Being Roasted Traditionaly , The Salak Or Snake Fruit Tree And You Could Also See The Vanilla Plant And Buy The Real Vanilla. The Vanilla Plant Grows By Climbing Over Another Tree Or Pole. The Vanilla We Have At Home Is Normally Synthetic.
You Can See Or Buy The Snake Fruit (Buah Salak) From The Street Vendors Easily In Bali But To Find The Tree Itself You Have To Travel To Sibetan Or When You Visit Desa Sri Batu,The Place Where Coffee Is Roasted Traditionaly.You Can Also See The Vanilla Plant And Buy It Here.
On The Way Between Kintamani And Tampak Siring Village , You Could See How The Coffee Beans Being Roasted In The Old Traditional Way At Desa Sribatu . You Could Also Sample The famous Bali's Coffee' And Buy It There.
Passing through a small village in the vicinity of our hidden resort, somewhere in Central Bali. You'll notice the antennas on the side of the road that are used to symbolize the contact with the gods.
Lotus flowers, in call colours and sizes are used to decorate gardens and interiors of hotels, spas and houses. They're beautiful and also grow profusely in the wilds. The Goddess of Mercy, Kuan Yin/Guan Yin, is often depicted as being seated or standing on a lotus throne.
Nasi (rice) Selo even for Balinese is rare to find. We found it incidentally on the way from Ubud to Kintamani. It is sold at small warung. What is special about Nasi Selo is the dishes was main staple and considerably luxury for Balinese during Dutch colonialism (1945). The old version of Nasi Selo was only rice mixed with slices of yam or cassava, with vegetable and shredded coconut. But the new version of Nasi Selo is you get vegetables and slice of fish or mince pork. You can add with other things as you like such as chicken, eggs, etc. I tried it. Nasi Selo and Balinese coffee…it’s quite ok. What I didn’t really enjoy was so many flies in the shops tried to get share on Nasi Selo.
Enter Kajeng street, you will find name, signature or words engraved in a pathway. There was married couple announced their marriage date, or person who stayed in one of homestays in Kajeng street. Sampek, one of the native Ubudnese told me it was engraved for fundraising. But it looks nice. And I keep reading people’s memorabilia on my way back to my home stay. It’s a Kajeng version of hall of fame.
Either permanent or temporary tattoo, you can find tattoo shops, especially in Kuta. But in other places, there are people approaching you offer to do temporary tattoo. You can bargain for the price, starting from Rp 10,000. But, be also careful. The cheaper price sometimes also using cheaper ink that can cause skin allergy. The price also depends on the design. The more complicated is the design, the higher is the price. Permanent tattoo usually starts with price of Rp 300,000.
This is one of the most famous Puras in Bali. The Pura is as same location with Tampak Siring Palace (Our former President Soekarno’s palace). People go there for purification body and soul. In one part of the temple, you will see men and women shower under water sprouts. Although water looks tempting, but swimming is highly restricted and also the using of any detergent is forbidden.
After arriving at the procession location, the men who carried the Wadah made a three time circle before locating the Wadah on the ground. Then, people performed ceremony. Only close family who can approach wadah. Before, people performed the burn ritual using wood, but now thanks to technology, people use machine that pumping the wind to fire. Before they started, they took out some decoration that used in wadah. Someone has tried to explain the whole process including symbol and sign. But it was too complicated to digest whole information in one time. It takes around two hours since the burning started until it’s cooling. Then the priest will proceed with other ceremony, then there will be ceremony to flow the ashes to the river or sea. Then there will be another ceremony after three days, then after twelve day, etc, etc. There were many people attending the funeral. They all come from...
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