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April 2013

EXOTIC &ELEGANT

The Balinese Wedding

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Hotel & Resort

Two selections of World class luxury resorts in Bali.

CONTENTS

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Tanah Lot Temple

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Exotic & ElegantBalinese Wedding

A beautiful temple that is most commonly used for religious celebration.

Pendet Dance

The traditional Welcoming Balinese Dance which con-sists of young girls dressed up in traditional Balinese.

A photographer shares her memories of the Balinese wedding she attended in Ubud, Bali.

Discover Bali

Discover every aspect of Bali; the beautiful beaches, art & crafts, culture & tradi-tion, foods, and nightlife.

Readers Response & Last Word

Readers response to the previour issue and the last word from the Editor in Chief.

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The traditional Balinese wedding has a totally dif-ferent wedding culture; a culture that is really unique, exotic, and ele-gant in a way the whole wedding is organized.

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10Editor’s Note

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Travelling has been my passion since I was a kid. Bali, the most popular tourist island in Indonesia, is one of my favorite places to go. Arriving at the destination welcomed by an exotic and warm Bali-nese Welcoming Dance is the first reason why I love to explore Bali. It is the cultur-al symbol of Bali. Looking at the Balinese people walking down the street bring-ing their offerrings for the Gods makes

me come to an understanding that there is always something unique about one culture that we can’t really find in Western society. The warm Balinese hos-pitality, the luxury beach hotels

EDITOR’S NOTE / maesa putra

Across the cultureand resorts providing world class services, and the Balinese traditional food accom-panied with a variety of tasty spices all combined into a memorable experince. The people in Bali: awesome!! They are very friendly and love to make new friends. It is just unbelievably amazing to experience something different out of my usual environment and I really enjoy it.

Searching for the vacation spot, book-ing the hotel and airplane ticket, flying 40,000 feet above the ground, arriving at the destination, experiencing many new things, meeting up with different people of different cultures, opening up my eyes to see the World, and fly-ing back home with great memories is a package of what I call my “ideal travel”.

Travel connects me to the undiscovered parts

of the world

The Welcoming Balinese Dance is the cultural

symbol of Bali

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Maesa Putra

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FAST FACT / tanah lot temple

Tanah Lot TempleTanah Lot is built on the rock with 3 acre size. This temple is very famous among tour-ist destinations in Bali with spectacular view of sunset. At some nooks of coral reef around Tanah Lot Temple there are holy tame snake in black and white color where according to the local soci-ety believe that it as a deity.

The word of Tanah Lot is consisted of two words that are Tanah word interpreted as a reef looking like gili or isle. Lot or Lod word has meaning the sea. So Tanah Lot is mean-ing the small island floating on the sea. The location is now called as Tanah Lot has been used at a Megalithic period as a place that looked into holy, proven from the existence of menhir. Pursuant to environmental condition, hence the structure of Tanah Lot Temple is built at irregular reef plain of its angle which is only consisted of one plain yard as Jeroan. The function of this temple can be realized from the function of the main temple building which is located in the temple main area. In this place, there is a main temple to worship the god in form of Dewa Baruna or Bhatara Segara, the sea power. The media of wor-ship to this god is the temple building with 5 storied meanwhile the 3 storied temple building in north part of this area is pur-posing to worship to Dang Hyang Nirartha.In order to know the status of Tanah Lot Tem-

ple can be realized from the temple history, function and also incoming devotee existence pray when temple ceremony is held. Tanah Lot Temple as dang Kahyangan(the big Holy Temples in Bali ), because the history and the Penyiwi (The people taking care of the temple) are from the local people from Tabanan regen-cy and surrounding area Tanah Lot temple as Segara Temple, because its function as sanc-tum to worship the Bhatara Segara, the God with manifestation as the ocean Power Deity.

The unique animal can be seen in this tem-ple area is the snake which are generally can be met in the coast. Part of its stom-ach there are no athwart skin, there is only small skin, but this sea water snake is very noxious it is generally very passive.Tanah Lot owns a magnificent view in particular at the sunset time where the sun slows down to the earth stomach. Every visitor who is paying a visit to this place will be marveled to see the beauty panorama of Tanah Lot.

FAST FACT / the pendet dance

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pendet is usually performed during tem-ple ceremonies. All dancers carry in their right hand a small offering of incense, wa-ter vessels, or flower formations set in palm leaf With these they dance from shrine to shrine within the temple. Pendet, thus, may be performed as a serial and contin-ue intermittently throughoin,the day and late into the night during temple feasts.

In 1968, a huge religious procession in Tabanan produced many versions of Pen-det. One was danced by a member of the household, who presented the family’s offerings in a slow Pendet before the ap-proaching wave of thousands of people.

In larger villages, a selected group of young girls, bare-shouldered and formal-ly dressed in wraps of gold cloth, carried silver bowls of flowers as they danced a more elaborate Pendet, when the pro-cession settled before a small temple, old women dressed in ordinary clothes be-gan to dance still another form of Pendet.

Recently, Pendet was introduced to open the Barong dance. Here, the young girls are accomplished members of a dance troupe, and their movements are coor-dinated and exact. Toward the finish of the dance, the girls make praying ges-tures and throw flowers to the audience-a welcome and blessing to the public.

The Pendet DancePendet is a traditional welcoming-

Balinese dance, in which offeings are made to purify the temple

or theater as a prelude to ceremories or

other dances.

Pendet is typically performed by young girls, carrying bowls of flower petals, handfuls of which are cast into the air at various times in the dance. Pendet can be thought of as a dance of greet-ing, to welcome the audience and in-vite spirits to enjoy a performance.

Pendet is the presentation of an offering in the form of a ritual dance. Unlike the exhibition dances that demand arduous training, Pendet may be danced by every-one: male and female pemangkus, women and girls of the village. It is taught simply by imitation and is seldom practiced in the

banjars. Younger girls follow the move-ments of the elder women who recognize their responsibility in setting a good exam-ple. Proficiency comes with age, and often, is the grandmothers who possess the most Man of the grouli. As a religious dance,

Barong dance (on the right) is a continuat-ing of Pendet dance,

representing the battle between good and evil.


MAIN FIGURE / The Balinese Wedding

Exotic & Elegant

Balinese WeddingYou know why we love Cinzia Bruschini? Because she’s completely inspired by love sto-ries. So much so that she stumbled upon a Balinese wedding, of which she was not invited to (but so courteously welcomed into), and photographed it. Yep, she basically “crashed” a wedding. This wedding. And she’s here to share her wonderful and memorable experience!

It was my last day in Bali. I’d been there photographing a wedding. Our driver was showing us around Ubud. It was gorgeous! At one point the exterior decoration of one particular house caught my eye. We asked the driver to stop, walked to the front of the house and politely asked the people standing there if it would be possible to enter to see what was happening inside. It was a dream and I was lucky to find out that there was a wedding taking place inside! We get off our car and we saw this huge welcoming entrance full of Balinese wedding ornaments with yellow, red, and orange flowers. Right at the entrence we were immediately greeted by a few younger girls that were part of the family serving some coke, fanta and delicious homemade cakes. They said, “selamat datang!”, which meant “wel-come”. I was impressed with the whole Balinese wedding culture;

BY CINZIA BRUSCHINI

It was a dream and I was lucky to find out that there was a wedding taking

place inside


The Balinese Wedding / MAIN FIGURE

Fact: In Balinese culture, color-ful flowers are the symbols of happiness. Not only in weddings, colorful flowers are also used for religious celebrations as symbols of give thanks to the gods.

the balinese entrance, the greeters, the welcoming music and the colorful Balinese costumes. Then, they asked if we could sign their guest book and we happily obliged. We also wrote a happy wedding letter and put it in the provided gifts basket. After that they gave us little gifts as an appreciation from the bride and groom for guests who came. The little gift I got was a small jewelry case with their names written on it. In Indonesia it is a cultural thing when you at-tend a wedding ceremony, sign their guest book, and get a small gift.

Walking into the rest of the house we could see a great bed of decorations and batik textiles ready to welcome the bride and the groom at the center of the house. Inside people were eating, oth-ers listening to music, and others were playing Balinese music with flutes and xylophones. The bride and groom, along with their wit-nesses welcomed us, and even though it was difficult to communi-cate with them, it was easy to see that the atmosphere was relaxed and informal, pervaded by a genuine and heartfelt mysticism. I was also amazed with the beautiful and colorful bride’s dress. When I saw her dress, I immediately thought of my self wearing a tra-ditional Balinese wedding dress in my future wedding part. The traditional dress was called “Batik”. The groom gave an orange Ba-tik Balinese scarf so that my driver and I could celebrate the wed-ding altogether with other guests in the main room of their house.

My last day in Ubud was perfect! I’ve always wanted to go to a Balinese traditional wedding. I will never forget this one; the wedding itself, the people, the music, the food, all combined into an amazing cul-tural experience. This wedding has inspired me even more to con-tinue my journey to find other colorful weddings in South East Asia.


MAIN FIGURE / The Balinese Wedding

Inside people were eating, others lis�tening to music, and others were playing Balinese music with flutes and xylophones

Fact: In Indonesian culture, food is a big thing in wed-

dings. Balinese weddings, es-pecially, provide a variety of food that takes usually a day

or two to prepare before the actually wedding ceremony.

Dream LandWith the beautiful view, Dream Land beach has gained world’s attention. The green cristal ocean water is perfect for photography.

Kuta It is the most popular beach for local

, especially families, and Australian tourists. Kuta beach is the right place for

surving, jetskis, and other water sports .

HIGH NOTES / discover bali

There’s more than one way to discover a destination

Discover Bali

Beach

Art & Craft

Nusa Dua Located in south of Bali, Nusa Dua beach is very popular among European tourists because of the white sand, quite environ-ment, and luxury hotels, resorts, and spas.

Traditional BraceletsYou can find many of these pretty brace-lets made by Balinese local shops in Kuta, Seminyak, and Nusa Dua area. These are the representation of the Balinese art, made from shells and beats.

Indonesian BatikBatik is a cloth that is traditionally made using a manual wax-resist dyeing technique. It has unique patterns that usually take themes from everyday lives.

Street ShopsStreet shops offer a great variety

of Balinese souvenirs such as bracelets, Balinese traditional clothes, ceramics, art & crafts,

and Balinese paintings.

Cooking ClassWith the increas-ing demand from tourists, a lot of Balinese restaurants are offering fun cooking classes where tourists can learn how to make Balinese food.

Offerings for the GodsIn Hinduism, these are the offerings for the Gods, consisting of colorful

flowers and snacks. You will see many of these in public spaces.

Gamelan Gamelan is a traditional Java-nese music instrument used in many Balinese traditional cele-brations to welcome visitors.

Religious CeremonyDuring the religious ceremony or celebration, Balinese girls are required to wear Balinese tra-ditional Kebaya, bringing a bucket of fruits to the designated temple. The buckets of fruits are forms of offerrings for the Gods.

Nasi CampurThis is a traditional Indone-

sian food consists of rice, chicken, noodles, tofu, and

tempe, accompanied by Indonesian seasonings.

Anantara Beach BarIt is a re-designed top

floor space with an elevated 20-meter glass

catwalk at Anantara Seminyak Resort, facing

the Indian Ocean.

Rock BarRock Bar, designed by a Japanese architect, is a

brand new bar located at the Ayana Resort & Spa.

With the luxury decoration and its location facing the Indian ocean, it is popular

among celebrities and up-per class communities.

Potato Head LoungePotato Head Lounge is a great place to watch the Sunset. The lounge offers a great variety of international food and cocktails, accompanied with the modern interior design decoration.

Lobster SeafoodSeafod is the most pop-ular type of food in Bali. It is extremely fresh and

can be found in many restaurants mostly locat-

ed in the South of Bali.

Culture & Tradition

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activities

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Room rates

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DiningBar/loungeWater sport

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st. regis features

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Travel is not about visiting beautiful places. It is not just about taking awesome pictures of all the places you visit. Travel is more than that. It is the experience that you want to look for because it connects you to the outside world or daily environment.

Travelling has been my passion since I was in elementary school. My family and I have some sort of yearly family vacation to some of the world’s best tourist places such as Singapore, Japan, Australia, France, Holland, Jordan, Egypt, South Africa, Tanzania, and many more. In the past few years I start to realize that travelling has been teaching me so much about people, culture, and the world. Take an example, Dubai, UAE. The day I arrived there I was really amazed with all the advanced technology, the diverse culture in the city, and the modern buildings. People came from all over the world, spoke many dif-ferent languages, brought many different approaches, and showed different attitudes, all together combined into one culture. A completely different environ-ment, Tanzania as an example. I went there last Christmas break with my family and we stayed in the jungle for 7 days. I had such a totally different experience; something that showed me the opposite of a fancy and luxurious lifestyle. I remember that when we wanted to shower, we had to call the resort reception to prepare us water because they used the solar energy to heat up the water. Can you imagine this? Even if you stay in a nice resort in an African jungle or some other remote or undeveloped place you still have to use the solar energy to have hot showers,

This is what I mean by “experience”. Travel gives you a lot of opportunities to experience different things, to feel the cultures, and to meet people from differ-ent backgrounds. It teaches you a lot of undiscovered things about the world.

Last Word...By Maesa Putra

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