Bali is famous for its diverse and sophisticated art forms such as painting, sculpture, woodcarving, crafts and performing arts. Balinese orchestra of percussion music, known as gamelan, is highly developed and varied. Balinese dances portraying Hindu epic stories like the Ramayana, but with strong influence Balinese. Famous pendet include Balinese dances, legong, Baris, topeng, Barong, and Kecak (the monkey dance).
The Hindu New Year, Nyepi, is being held in the spring of a day of silence. On this day around the world stay at home and tourists are encouraged to stay in their hotels. In the big day earlier, colorful sculptures of ogoh-ogoh monsters are paraded and finally burned at night to drive away evil spirits. Other festivals throughout the year are specified by the Balinese calendar pawukon system.
National education programmes, mass media and tourism continue to change the Balinese culture. Immigration from other parts of Indonesia, especially Java, is changing the ethnic composition of the population of Bali.
The Balinese eat with his right hand, as the left is impure, a common belief throughout Indonesia. The Balinese hand or not receiving things with his left hand and not to any wave with his left hand.
National education programmes, mass media and tourism continue to change the Balinese culture. Immigration from other parts of Indonesia, especially Java, is changing the ethnic composition of the population of Bali.
The Balinese eat with his right hand, as the left is impure, a common belief throughout Indonesia. The Balinese hand or not receiving things with his left hand and not to any wave with his left hand.
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