Agung Bali Tours : Ubud – Volcano – Besakih Mother temple

Agung Bali Tours : Ubud – Volcano – Besakih Mother temple

A great tour combination with shopping, local foods and fascinating view of nature.

• Visit Ubud Villages, The village of art in a different materials i.e: meet stone carvers,wood carver,Silver craft and art painting

 

• Visit Ubud Monkey forest, the friendly and funny behave of monkeys

• Visit Tegalalang Rice terrace and its paddy rice terrace

• visit Tirtha Empul Temple (Spring Water Temple), Temple with healing pond

• Visit Coffee and spice farming with organic and manual coffee and spice processing and meet the world best coffee producers, the civet cat

• visit Kintamani, lake Batur and Mt. Batur, A semi active volcano

• Visit Besakih temple, Bali biggest temple (Mother Temple)

• Bukit Jambul, the great scenery of rice terrace, sea and island view from the height

Start time : 8:30
Price : US$ 50 /car (max.7 seats)

Galungan Day

Meaning of Galungan day in Bali community

Galungan is a sacred ceremony that gives spiritual strength to be able to distinguish where the life force coming from and where from budhi adharma atma is the voice of truth (dharma) in human beings. Balinese Hinduism people will celebrate Galungan Day on 29 august 2012.

The series activities of Galungan

Galungan is a feast of Hindu people in Bali are held every six months, so there are two times in a year Galungan celebration day. In Lontar Sunarigama Galungan Day has a lot of series of activities before or since, among others:

Sugihan Jawa Day
Sugihan Jawa celebrated on Wage Wrhaspati Wuku Sungsang, six days before Galungan. Implementation of this ceremony is to clean all the equipment and ceremonies in their respective holy places. Sugihan Jawa is a celebration with prayers for Hindu Majapahit and mostly descendants of Hindus in Bali.

 

Sugihan Bali Day
Sugihan Bali celebrated five days before Galungan on Friday Kliwon Wuku Sungsang where its meaning is to do self-purification that is our spiritual and physical. In Sugihan Bali, which celebrates the Bali Aga (original Balinese Hindu society), the Bali Aga village whose inhabitants are traditional inhabitants of Bali can be seen in the area Tenganan, Karangasem, Bali.

Penyekeban Day
Three days before Galungan on Redite Paing Wuku Dungulan told The Three Kala Wisesa down to earth and annoying the humans. On that day is recommended for silencing the mind so as not to be entered by Butha Galungan (evil spirits).

Penyajaan Day
Two days before Galungan on Monday (Pon Dungulan) called Penyajaan Galungan. On this day people who know about yoga and semadhi.

Penampahan Galungan Day
The day before Galungan on Wage Anggara wuku Dungulan. On this day regarded as a day to beat Butha Kala of Galungan with the main ceremony of making offerings like byakala (banten). Most of the people on this day slaughter pigs as an animal sacrifice. But the real significance is today should kill animalistic traits that exist in themselves. But the habits of the people now is to cut daily sacrifice on the day before to save time so that at Penampahan Galungan usually just make satay, lawar and macam2 makana for offerings. On this day also be making Penjor which is a symbol of majesty Galungan Day celebrations.

Galungan Day
Galungan is a sacred ceremony that gives spiritual strength to be able to distinguish where the life force coming from and where from budhi adharma atma is the voice of truth (dharma) in human beings. more information about meaning of Galungan Day

Manis Galungan Day
The day after Galungan is Thursday Umanis Dungulan wuku called Umanis Galungan. On this day people remember how beautiful the victory of dharma. The people in general vent their joy by visiting places of entertainment, especially the beautiful panorama. Also visit our family for say hello with them.

Nyepi ceremony

Nyepi Day , The silent day in Bali

Balinese will celebrate New Year on 5 March 2011. It is very unique culture which us most of the people in the word celebrate New Year with party, family holidays, travelling and many more. In Paradise Island of Bali, their celebrate a New Year in Silent Day.  

The lead up to Nyepi day is as follows:

• Melasti or Mekiyis or Melis (three days before Nyepi on 2 March 2011)
  Melasti is meant to clean the pratima or arca or pralingga (statue), with symbols that help to concentrate the mind in order to become closer to God. The ceremony is aimed to clean all nature and its content, and also to take the Amerta (the source for eternal life) from the ocean or other water resources (ie lake, river, etc). Three days before Nyepi, all the effigies of the Gods from all the village temples are taken to the river in long and colourful ceremonies. There, they have are bathed by the Neptune of the Balinese Lord, the God Baruna, before being taken back home to their shrines.
• Tawur Kesanga (the day before Nyepi on 4 March 2011)
  Exactly one day before Nyepi, all villages in Bali hold a large exorcism ceremony at the main village cross road, the meeting place of demons. They usually make Ogoh-ogoh (the fantastic monsters or evil spirits or the Butha Kala made of bamboo) for carnival purposes. The Ogoh-ogoh monsters symbolize the evil spirits surrounding our environment which have to be got rid of from our lives . The carnivals themselves are held all over Bali following sunset. Bleganjur, a Balinese gamelan music accompanies the procession. Some are giants taken from classical Balinese lore. All have fangs, bulging eyes and scary hair and are illuminated by torches.The procession is usually organised by the Seka Teruna, the youth organisation of Banjar. When Ogoh-ogoh is being played by the Seka Teruna, everyone enjoys the carnival. In order to make a harmonic relation between human being and God, human and human, and human and their environments, Tawur Kesanga is performed in every level of society, from the people's house. In the evening, the Hindus celebrating Ngerupuk, start making noises and light burning torches and set fire to the Ogoh-ogoh in order to get the Bhuta Kala, evil spirits, out of our lives.
• Nyepi ( on 5 March 2011)
  On Nyepi day itself, every street is quiet - there are nobody doing their normal daily activities. There is usually Pecalangs (traditional Balinese security man) who controls and checks for street security. Pecalang wear a black uniform and a Udeng or Destar (a Balinese traditional "hat" that is usually used in ceremony). The Pecalangs main task is not only to control the security of the street but also to stop any activities that disturb Nyepi. No traffic is allowed, not only cars but also people, who have to stay in their own houses. Light is kept to a minimum or not at all, the radio or TV is turned down and, of course, no one works. Even love making, this ultimate activity of all leisure times, is not supposed to take place, nor even attempted. The whole day is simply filled with the barking of a few dogs, the shrill of insect and is a simple long quiet day in the calendar of this otherwise hectic island. On Nyepi the world expected to be clean and everything starts anew, with Man showing his symbolic control over himself and the "force" of the World, hence the mandatory religious control.
• Ngembak Geni (the day after Nyepi on 6 March 2011)
  Ngembak is the day when Catur Berata Penyepian is over and Hindus societies usually visit to forgive each other and doing the Dharma Canthi. Dharma Canthi are activities of reading Sloka, Kekidung, Kekawin, etc.(ancient scripts containing songs and lyrics).

From the religious and philosophy point of view, Nyepi is mean to be a day of self introspection to decide on values, eg humanity, love, patience, kindness, etc., that should kept forever. Balinese Hindus have many kind of celebrations (some sacred days) but Nyepi is, perhaps the most important of the island's religious days and the prohibitions are taken seriously, particularly in villages outside of Bali's southern tourist belt. Hotels are exempt from Nyepi's rigorous practices but streets outside will be closed to both pedestrians and vehicles (except for airport shuttles or emergency vehicles) and village wardens (Pecalang) will be posted to keep people off the beach. So wherever you happen to be staying on Nyepi Day in Bali, this will be a good day to spend indoors. Indeed Nyepi day has made Bali a unique island.

If you wish to experience stay in Bali Island on Nyepi day, we recommend you to book the accommodation from the day before nyepi days. Utmost of travel agent will create packages called Nyepi Day packages, for sure packages are inclusive breakfast ,lunch and dinner. Lets booking bali accommodation arrange your  travel needs