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	<title>Bali Travel News &#187; Bali Culture</title>
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		<title>Nyepi for Hindu People</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bali Villas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 6 March 2008, Hindu devotees in Bali will celebrate the Çaka New Year that is commonly known as Nyepi or Silence Day. The Çaka year calendar system was begun in 78 AD; therefore, the year 2008 becomes Çaka New Year 1930. So, what are they doing in welcoming the New Year? According to its name, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bali Mask Dramas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bali Villas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Topeng literally means “pressed against the face” or mask. All actors in Topeng dramas are masked refined characters wear full masks; clowns and servants sport a half- mask which facilitates speaking. Topeng is a tremendously popular form in Bali, as it relates local lore and historical tales concerning the royal lineages in scenes of everyday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bali Musical Structure</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bali Villas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Balinese gamelan music is an intricate blend of sonorities, created in a densely patterned, contrapuntal web of sound. Enhanced by the tremolo effect of the paired tuning system, the music shifts and vibrates rapidly — some have compared it to the nightly choruses of crickets and frogs in the Balinese riceflelds. Working in an oral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bali Music &#124; Gamelan Music in Bali</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bali Villas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glistening Tones of the Gamelan For anyone interested in music — from the casual listener to the professional composer— Bali presents a musical landscape that stretches far beyond the island’s diminutive physical dimensions. Few places in the world can boast such a rich and varied musical environment. And while the sheer number and variety of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Butha Kala’s Drinks for Balinese Hinduism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bali Villas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wherever you are traveling in Bali, it is easy to find the Balinese doing ritual activities. There are rituals held privately at home or at the family’s holy place, and those held collectively at the Pura (temple) or many other sacred places like the beach, water resources, at the market, rice field and involving the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picture of Balinese dance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love to take this kind of picture where culture and arts perform in front of the audience. Bali has many traditional dances and every time i saw a performance taking place i&#8217;m always trying to capture them on my camera. Picture taken around Bali for Seminyak villas]]></description>
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		<title>Bali Cremations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bali Villas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pitra Yadnya: Rites for the Ancestors Life, death, rebirth. This cyclical conception of existence lies at the very heart of Balinese Hinduism. During each life on earth the eternal soul occupies a temporary vessel — the physical body — which at death must be returned to the pancamahabhuta, the five elemental substances: solid, liquid, radiance, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Divine Descent Dance in Bali</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bali Villas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word sanghyang means “deity” and performers of the sacred Sanghyang dances are said to be possessed by specific deities who enable them to perform supernatural feats. Their role is an overfly exorcistic one — they assist in warding off pestilence and ridding the village of black magic. Trance is induced through incense smoke and [...]]]></description>
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