Sunday, April 22, 2007

Ceremony@Bedegul


Danau Bratan at Bedegul. About 31/2 hours drive from Ubud. The air there is very cool and fresh. The scenery is beautiful with a lakeside Pura.

Danau Bratan. I used the Cokin blue filter to achieve the blue sky effect.

The Pura compound near Danau Bratan. These ladies are preparing for the impending ceremony to respect their dead ancestors. I managed to capture the religious rites with my camera.

The parade of ritual attendees proceeding to the nearby Pura.

Men, women, children entering the Pura.

Men to the left..women to the right...(this is just an angle which I managed to capture. Interesting though..)

Balinese women...they are always clad in lacy kebaya and batik sarung. They paste grains of rice on the forehead for this religious ceremony.

The men...talking animatedly.

Father and son listening intently on the priest's chanting.



2 comments:

sitynuress said...

uwaaaaaaaaaaaa i want to go to bali some more!!!!

jom la geng jahat!!!
lets do bali jom!!!!

cheesecake said...

Jom!!! We can lepak at the same villa I stayed and we will have a whale of a time! You even get to swim in your birthday suit! hahaha! Watch out for my next post for pics of Ubud Village and Spa.