Ubud and World Cup 2010 in South Africa

Ubud is a cultural ,art and religion place. Ubud people is very intersting with all about culture and art also Religion (Hindu) what they same interest with football. Yeah Ubud people is very interesting with World Cup 2010 in South Africa.
Hopely for the supporters from Asia, after they watch their team afterwards come to Ubud for refreshing after come to Africa that very hot temperature and have the inspiration before back to work and it same as well as the supporters from European and American please come to feel something different in Ubud, something that make refresh and ready to work and if you need fun, natural and awesome place to visit, Ubud has a lot and one of them is our place
For the schedule you can check here
And for Original Sound Track  for World Cup 2010 in South Africa by K'naan feat David Bisbal entitled Wavin' Flag, just listen in this site and let play now.

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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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Besakih temple

go to pray at Besakih temple

Besakih temple, the sacred place

Besakih temple is the largest temple in Bali also Indonesia. Besakih temple is sometimes called mother temple because this temple is a complex of  temples. In this place consists of 1 main temple and 18 other temples. Others temple has a lot of categories such as clan temple, group temple etc.

Besakih temple is located in mount Agung in Karangasem regency, east place of Ubud. This place is very sacred so that way a lot of tourists are looking for feeling sacred atmosphere go to this temple, no matter spiritual or ordinary tourist, they find and feel peace when come to this area. The best time to come to Besakih temple is when come with family in the morning and see the activity there or ask the guide where is holiday time in this place. In Holiday time or on ceremony time in Besakih  is very special time because the atmosphere is more sacred besides this the tourists can see the real of Balinese life such as how to prepare the ceremony, making offering, ritual etc.

Sunset in peak Mt. Agung. Public domain.

Besides this, this tourist destination has pedestrian to walk until the peak of Agung mount and do not worry this mount is not to hard for climbing. The tourist can arrive until top just with walk because this mounth is flat and it is not steep but please keep be careful.

Go to Bali and come to Besakih temple or climb the Agung mount is a good choice, one way to go there is from Ubud and you can stay in one of Balinese design home with full of Balinese hospitality place in Ubud. so do not wait until tomorow come and feel one of the sacred destination place in world, Besakih temple.

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Batur temple

dance for self dedication

Bali is known with island of thousands temples. It can see from there are much temples in Bali. The temples can devided into many kinds. One of the most important temple is Batur temple. Batur temple, as its name is located in Batur close with lake Batur, Bangli regency just 1 hour from Brata 1 Homestay, a fun, natural and awesome but cheap homestay and its address at hanoman street no 51 ubud

Batur temple is a place for pray to supreme God as his fungtion as Visnu with his wife Goddess Sri as a goddess of prosperous. In Batur temple right now, there is a ceremony, it is not so big as before but it was still very good time to come, pray and do somethings as our self dedication for God.

It seems like one of the only Arts Institute in Bali, Indonesian Institute of the Arts, in photo above, looks students of this institute dance to their self dedication for The Suprime God, because in Bali there are many ways to pray to God and dance when the ceremony is one of that ways. When the students dance although in that time weather was little bit rainy, fog and cold but because of their spirit to dance was so high, they ignored it and they still dance.

The dance name is "Rejang", its dance one of important dance for using in ceremony and rejang dance is one of sacred dance in Bali too. Without this dance, ceremony is not complete one. So that time was very memorable one for the dancers because they were one of important aspect for this ceremony. This is why Balinese religion and culture is so special. Come to Bali, see, feel and take its special to your hearth. Hopely Bali can still be last paradise in future. Save it with love it.

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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 in Ubud

We are invited too

3rd Bali Spirit Festival will open a few hours later in ARMA Museum in its address at Pengosekan Street Ubud, just asking people around Ubud as if hard to find this place, they will give you information with their smile. Yeah this is Balinese hospitality, we will help anyone with free and  smile too.
This festival, an annual celebration of yoga dance music started on 5.00 pm until 9.30 pm in ARMA museum, today, wednesday 31st March 2010 with Bali Soul Mantra Opening Night Celebration. This festival has 5 nights of inspiring world music concerts at ARMA with over 20 performance with world class musicians and DJs and its festival will be closed on 4th april 2010. Come and buy tickets at ARMA museum now. For futher informations, send your questions at, info@balispiritfestival.com. So don't miss it.

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Balinese Ceremony in Brata 1 Homestay

"pemangku" says mantra

Ceremony in Brata 1 Homestay

On 24th March 2010 in Brata 1 homestay held a ceremony, ceremony in our family temple. This ceremony was very interesting because in this time is a very good time during Balinese celender, as should you know for ceremony, Balinese is using Balinese System Celender, which is using lunar system and 1 month is 35 days.

In this special day, most of our family was going home to pray, request for The Suprime God to save us and other thing, this ceremony is for purifiying our place (Brata 1 Homestay) to clean in spiritual side besides in real world.
In that time, situation was very happy and lot of lough because all our family came home so we can share our experience and talking much each other. This was not just a ceremony but the time to meet each other in our home (Brata 1 Homestay). A guest of us, her name Sandra from Switzerland and other guests looked very enjoy about this atmosphere, she said when I was 6 years my parents came to Ubud with me and after 16 years I am back again to Ubud. This atmosphere make she has something different in Ubud, how people interect with each other, how their have a strong relationship between each family and how they still pray with God, although they are already success. to see, people pray together with their Big and Happy family is very awesome and memorable time. One of this place is "Its only in Brata 1 Homestay".

Sandra in Balinese uniform

Sunset

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Barrack Obama schedule comes to Bali on June

Statue in main cross road Ubud

U.S President Barrack Obama reschedule his bilateral visiting to Indonesia. Before his schedule on March but right now decline up to June 2010. Although he changed his schedule quiet long but don't worry a lot of Indonesia people still waiting his visiting here.

Same like Bali, as one place that will visit by Mr Obama during his visit to Indonesia, we are still waiting for him. Balinese is very appreciate for his schedule to visit Bali. Hopely he will come with his family, his family can be inspiration because he is a awesome and great father and also love his family much.

Please do not forget to visit Monkey Forest Sanctuary in Ubud because it is very great place to visit, from Monkey Forest in Ubud, with its local genius  to still save forest in that place to be a green zone to safe oxigen for our live in Ubud,we can learn about how important to stop global warning. Stop global warning it is not just for us but for our son, our grand son too. From green of Monkey Forest hopely there is inspiration for seriously to go green, go go go.....

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Nyepi at Brata 1 Homestay in Ubud

"Nyepi" in front of Brata 1 Homestay

Firstly All staffs, manager and owner of Brata 1 Homestay say Happy "Nyepi". Nyepi means quiet, hopely from quiet of Nyepi we can thing what we did in past year and what we are going to do in next year, it is very good tone because in another new year we are always celebrate it with party and loud but special for Hindu New Year, we are celebrate in with " Catur Brata Nyepi, catur means 4, Brata, exactly Brata has a lot of meaning but in this case the meaning is fast or no doing that, the 4 fast is no go anywhere(stay at home,) no job, no angry and dont make any activity. Yeah just quite. Quite, relax and let is your soul free, from quite of Nyepi you have time to thing your mistakes and dont make the same mistake in next year, if you celebrate with party how you have time to thing what you have already done. In the first picture is situation during Nyepi in Ubud and picture took in front of Brata 1 Homestay in Hanoman street. For you who already came to Ubud, Hanoman street is always busy but it is not when Nyepi, Quite, all is quite, quite is good for rest your body and soul because we are not a machine.

Before Nyepi, in Nyepi ave, there is, okay let say parade, there is giant doll or in Balinese we called "ogoh-ogoh" parade. Here is some of Ogoh-ogoh photos in Brata 1 Homestay village, Padang Tegal in Ubud Bali.

Padang Tegal Kelod Youth Organization

Padang Tegal Tengah Youth Organization

Padang Tegal Kaja Youth Organization

children ogoh-ogoh

Children ogoh-ogoh

Padang Tegal Mekarsari Youth Organization

                                              

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