Guests in Our Family Temple Ceremony

family temple ceremony at brata 1 homestay

Sierra & Sule

When stay in an accommodation and at that time, there is ceremony in your homestay, it means you are in right place, time and accommodation because if you stay in hotel you can't find such as ceremony like that. if you see, come and be a part of this ceremony, you find what is exactly you are looking for during your holiday in Bali. Bali is famous with our rich heritage cultures and religion philosophy and it makes a large numerous numbers of tourists to come to Bali. It is a big and good opportunity to us for explaining our cultures because sometimes it takes time to make the tourists understand how we save it and of course to save it, we are never walk alone because there are a lot op people who really love Bali behind us. The important issues are how the tourist industry develop Bali because it influences many factors of Balinese life from small vendors up to five star hotels, so they can say when they are back home that Bali is already safe and don't need to worry come to holiday again here, in Bali. Second issue is how the tourists give feedback to us, to know the opinion about Bali, to know their hoping about Bali and to know about the reason why they come to Bali.

It is very important because there are a lot of new tourist destinations in every part of the world so to have some minutes to talk with the tourists, we can explain our culture and they got the correct informations about our culture and they can say their opinion about Bali and for us, we can have feedback from their opinions, ideas and suggestions to build Bali better than ever. 

Special thanks goes to two of our beautiful guests from Canada who came and really enjoyed to see and join our brotherhood relationship in the family temple ceremony named  Sierra Terhock and Sule.

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Royal Cremation Ceremony 2nd of November 2010 at Peliatan

20 metres more Bade

Again Royal Cremation Ceremony will be held in Peliatan village, eastern side of Ubud and to go there you only need 10 minutes by walk from Ubud. The Cremation Ceremony in Balinese is  called Plebon and it will be held 2nd of November 2010.

Before Bali island consists of a lot of Kingdoms, the Kingdoms was constitutional with Federal Monarchy, which the head of Federal Monarchy was King of Klungkung. 

In Peliatan, there is Kingdom that sub Kingdom of Gianyar Kingdom (Gianyar is subkingdom of Klungkung) and we all know that after 1945, Indonesia had our independend and our constitutional is Republic although, we still have King but we are Republic. Like in Peliatan, when Jing of Peliatan died so there is a big procession to the lastest honour for him. Come to Peliatan Village on Tuesday 2nd of November 2010 and you will see one awesome moment, when procession is started. Guests will see people make team workto carry tower that bring the King dead body to cementery. The tower high is more than 20 metres so the tower is very heavy and to carry it, at lease need much people. For carry this tower, committee of Plebon use step by step procedural/estaffette, first group takes about 20 metres and change to second group continue until the tower arrive in cementry and for this procession it need more than 1000 people because there is three things to carry here, first is coffin cow (in Balinese called Lembu), second is dragon (Naga Banda) and the last is tower (in Balinese Bade).

stair to go to top of Bade

coffin buffalo

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Cremation Ceremony on 3 October 2010 in Padang Tegal Kelod, Ubud.

   Cremation ceremony is one of the biggest, the sacredest and the most complicate also the most popular ceremony in Hindu Bali. In Bali, there is much ceremony, so it is why Bali, sometime it is said, everyday without ceremony. Cremation ceremony is dedicated for someone who already passed away and his family want to honour him, same in this cremation ceremony, we want to honour our lovely grand father. Guests of Brata 1 Homestay must be knowing him with his hospitality and a lot of Brata 1 Ubud guests said he was a wise man with big heart .Our Grand Father cremation ceremony was helded in Padang Tegal kelod in Padang Tegal Village on 3rd of October 2010.

    The cremation procession is started since a month ago, on the middle of September 2010 and finished on 6th of October 2010 after 3 days of its H day and the ceremony name's is 'nelunan' (3rd days).

    Procession of ceremony was started with our Balinese traditional custums that we made committee first. After the committee was made then we requested to our local community  (called Banjar in Balinese) that our family had a plan to make cremation ceremony to our grand father. After the banjar permited after words our family looked good day in Balinese celender to start working ( in Balinese is called nuasen karya). Next the committee was started to make tower to carry death body (in Balinese is called Bade) and coffin for burning  and  it used bull  symbol (called lembu), lembu means bull in English.

    Next procession is preparing for offering and for this procession we woke up in very early morning 4 AM to prepare food for offering, for ou priest and for committee. it takes more than 3 days. Another important procession was one day before H day, which was in that time our family invited our friends and colleagues to come in our home and as witness to our ceremony. In night we must not sleep until tomorow and what made this day is special because in midnight, the inheritor person must take holy water (calle dtirta penembak) alone to sacred place and after he got it, he must suddenly send to Priest home to process and prepare for thr H day tomorow.

    In the H day, there is very busy time, the day was started with Made offering and prepares for everything for ceremony. Next in noon, the 

Ngaben

 ceremony was started with carry Lembu and Bade to cementery and after death body take in Lembu, then we burned it. After the death body finished to burn only residue bond and ash. we offered it and then went to beach to spread i ( in Balinese called nganyut).

    Last in 3rd days procession (ngetelunin), we made foods and beverages for all the committees, like lawar, comoh, jugut ares, sate, siap betutu etc to celebrate our success work because the cremation success without obstacle and dont forget we send the foods to Priest home and after then in afternoon we went to Priest home again (the home called Griya) to said thank you to priest and his families and to who already helped cremation ceremony also. For more pictures, please clicking here

Balinese brotherhood

Praying for ceremony successfully

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Emergency in Ubud

RSUP Sanglah Hospital

Nowsday, Ubud as the international place to visit and the best city in Asia has a lot of support things. One of support thing is about healt care place and it can say like clinic and hospital. Here are some clinic and hospitalin Ubud for emergency case included general hospital in Bali. Remember if you come to Goverment hospitals, it is little bit waiting except in emergency case but cheaper than ungoverment hospitals or clinics and ungoverment hospitals and clinics is faster but extremly expensive than goverment hospital.

1. (Ungovernment Clinic) Clinic Mas. Mas Main Street, Ubud. Phone: +62 361 974573 and just 2 minutes from our place
2. (Ungovernment Clinic)Toyo Clinic. Pengosekan Street, Ubud. Phone: +62 361 978078 and just 2 minutes from our place
3. (Ungoverment Clinic) Ubud Clinic. Ubud Main Street no. 36, Ubud. Phone: +62 361 974911 and just 2 minutes from our place
4. (Government) Civil Medical Center or in Indonesian says Puskesmas is a clinic of Goverment that build in every subdistrict in Indonesia. In Ubud, Puskesmas is located at Dewi Sita street. just 1 minute from our place
5. (Government) Gianyar General Hospital. Ciung Wenara no 2, Gianyar. Phone: +62 361 943049. This hospital is the general hospital in Gianyar Regency. For emergency and serious condition, all clinics and hospitals in Gianyar take the medical patient here. This hospital just 30 minutes from our place
6. (Government) Sanglah General Civil Hospital or in Indonesian says RSUP Sanglah is located at Kesehatan Selatan Street no. 1, Sanglah Denpasar. Phone: +62 361 227911-15. Fax: 268690. Sanglah General Civil Hospital is the main provincial public hospital in Bali province. Its facilities have improved since the emergency ward had been built in 1991. Difficult/critical cases would not become a problem anymore since it has complete equipments. For emergency and serious condition, all clinics and hospitals in Bali province and east part of Indonesia take the medical patient in this general hospital. Sanglah Province General Hospital just 1 hour from our place

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Visit Indonesia Museum year at Puri Lukisan museum

After successed with Visit Indonesia year 2009, again our gaverment, Goverment of Indonesia launched their continue program,  "visit Indonesia year 2010" and this year is  reated a theme which is the theme for this year is  "visit Indonesia Museum Year". Yeah it is right theme because Indonesia with our motto Ultimate in Diversity  consist of  a lot of cultures and every culture has their own identities, It is very great to see and know how rich is our world with the cultures that you are never see before.

The island of Bali is well known for its rich cultural heritage, which is reflected in Balu's 20 museums which houses of variety of collections ranging from antrhropological artifacts throught the collections of of both classical and modern arts.

In Ubud, an international village, although Ubud is choosing is the best city in Asia but it is much better if we call Ubud a village rather than city, Its sound deeper, we has a lot of museums, as we know all, it is way Arts is still alive and progress here. Let is disscussing Museum around Ubud. Firstly let is discussing about the oldest one, Puri Lukisan Museum. Puri Lukisan Museum is located at Ubud main road with its collection specializing in modern traditional Balinese paintings and wood carvings. Its mission is to preserve, develop and document traditional Balinese arts. It is home to the finest collection of modern traditional Balinese painting and wood carving on the island, spanning from the pre-war (1930 – 1945) to the post-war (1945 – present) era. The collection includes important examples of all of the artistic styles in Bali including the Sanur, Batuan, Ubud, Young Artist and Keliki schools. This picture is (painting of  IGusti Nyoman Deblog  with title  birth of Anoman, one of the museum collections).

This Museum consists of three main building such as:

• Building I (North) – the Pitamaha Gallery houses the Pre-War modern traditional Balinese paintings (1930 – 1945) and I Gusti Nyoman Lempad and collection
• Building II (West) – the Ida Bagus Made Gallery houses the Ida Bagus made the Estate Collection
• Building III (East) – the Wayang Gallery houses Wayang Painting Collection and used for temporary exhibitions.

Puri Lukisan Museum is just 5 minutes by motor or 15 minutes by walk from our place, brata 1 homestay, so if you are intersting, want to know about this museum collections more, please visit this museum soon and don't hesitancy to stay in brata 1 homestay, Cheap Accomodation in Ubud during your plan to visit this museum in Ubud.

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Bali Spirit Festival 31st March - 4th April, 2010

Spiritual Bodyguard called Ganesh

Brata 1 Homestay is place in the heart of Ubud so it is very easy to come everywhere around Ubud. It same when there is an even in Ubud. This place will be an easy place to come in event place. It same again when Bali Spirit Festival returns to hillside community of Ubud for its third year on March 31st, 2010 to April 4th, 2010. Its takes only 3 minutes by walk from Brata 1 Homestay. 

This even, it is a spiritually charged event that celebrates "yoga", colaborate with its dances and musics and the synergy of global cultural collaboration through the arts.
 
Held over 4 days and 5 nights, this annual celebration brings to Bali a wealth of talented and respected creative masters from around the world, merging the indigenous and rich cultures of Indonesia in the spirit of learning, collaboration and the celebration of our creative and spiritual diversity.
 
The Bali Spirit Festival combines over 95 inspiring yoga, dance, and music workshops with nightly world music concerts to an enthusiastic audience of over 4,500 people.  
 
The majestic outdoor festival grounds are located just outside of Ubud, Bali on sprawling green lawns with a blessed river flowing through.

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around brata 1 homestay, place to eat.

brata 1 homestay family temple

Around brata 1 homestay there are:

1. Many places for eat, 

• Laba-Laba Restaurant, just next door of Brata 1 Homestay, in left side. Its restaurant serve Indonesia food cook together with its secret recipes.
• Artini Warung ( but it is more expensive than Laba-Laba Restaurant) at right side of Brata 1 Homestay, about only 5 metres including its mini market too.
• Bebek Bengil ( Dirty Duck ) is the famousest restaurant in Ubud, famous people, actress, actor domestic and international until our president come to lunch or dinner in this Balinese food restaurant. Prize does not matter if we are talking about taste. Its restaurant is in right side our place just go by food and it takes no more than 5 minutes.
• Tegun Restaurant is left side of our place and this place can find just by foot, only 3 minutes. What is make this place special? The owner of this place has Yoga Barn too. So if you are interesting with Yoga perhaps you can come to lunch or dinner while ask about Yoga Practise Schedule there.
• Pundi-Pundi Restaurant is a Grill Asian Cousine Restaurant with lotus pond. Its is a new restaurant with new concept and it will be great to come for dinner because it is so romantic when see sunset there. 
• The Pond is a little bit expensive Restauran, the owner is brother of Pundi-Pundi Restauran but concept is different in this restaurant. If you come with your group, this is restaurant has a lot of chairs.

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