See Bali Through Photography: August 2010

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Kite Festival in Sanur Village Festival

In July-August is the season of kites in Bali, where the wind blows fast enough and stable. So that all children, teenagers up to adults to use it to distribute a hobby, which is a kite.

Sanur Village Festival to be one event that is used for hobby kite. In every opportunity, Sanur Village Festival always held a kite contest, traditional and international. Which aims to introduce the uniqueness of Balinese traditional kite into the middle of the tourists.

There are several types of traditional Balinese kites such as:

Pecukan, shaped like a leaf sheath.

Ben-ben or be- bean, resembling the shape of fish.

Janggan or Janggar, resembling of a dragon.

Creation, an adaptation of various shapes of animals, objects, figures and other idol that will transform into a kite.

This event is enough to open the eyes of foreign tourists that Bali was also unique in the art of kite. And they was surprised to see the size of our kites. "Usually in our country, one person flying the kite 50-10, but in Bali first kite was flown by at least 10 people", said one tourist. In addition to art and hobby container, a giant kite is also a means of uniting and grow hand in hand as well as mutual cooperation.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Sanur Village Festival

Sanur Village Festival aims to promote tourism by bringing local wisdom with the theme of the theme "The New Spirit of Heritage '," said Chairman of the Committee of SVF, Ida Bagus Putra Sidartha, in Sanur. Held every year around August.

He said the village of Sanur as the first tourist areas in Bali are still maintained as the basis for the development of cultural tourism. Therefore, these activities display a variety of cultural and traditional art owned by the local community.

Sanur since the 1930s has become a favorite tourist destination for foreign tourists. White sandy beaches and stunning, exotic tropical plants swaying on the edge of the beach, and the blue waves that make anyone feel at home relaxing vacation here. Sanur Village besides festival aims to attract tourists to come to Bali It also aims to introduce Sanur as one of tourist destinations are safe with the theme as a fishing village. In addition, this festival also provides opportunities for humanists and artists and communities that live around Sanur to be able to participate in tourism activities.

The festival will introduce the diversity of tourism in Sanur. Food, music, sports, and paintings are part of the festival. Any tourism agency will also introduce a variety of snacks and good cheap food made by chef hotels and restaurants and traditional cafes that many are around Sanur. The tourists would be invited and come with a free tour around Denpasar to get to know the various tourist attraction in the area of Denpasar.