Merry Christmas and Happy New Years everyone, I've been on a break from school so I've been enjoying the festivals and the ceremonies. I also switched families so now I live closer to the center of Denpasar. In Bali since the majority of people are Hindu, Christmas isn't really a big event here. Instead they celebrate Galungan and Kuningan, those are two days where everyone goes and visits their family back in their villages and prays, and when I say everyone I mean everyone. During Galungan when my family left the house to go to their village the streets were almost completely empty. Meanwhile at some temples there are 2 hour lines to get in to the prayer area.
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| Local temple in my fathers village |
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| Holy Man |
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| One box of offerings that my mother prepared (there were 3 more in the house) |
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| The first of two waiting lines to get into the temple we went to for kuningan |
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| One of three parking areas around the temple |
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| My brothers and I at the very scenic Uluwatu temple for Guningan |
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The prayer area in Uluwatu
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That's about everything important, I've been mostly getting to know my new family and hanging out with them. I also went to another monkey sanctuary with some of my friends from school and of course more beaches.
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| My new monkey friend and I (It wouldn't be a proper blog post without monkey pictures) |
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| We saw this monkey who had apparently found and was nurturing a kitten instead of a baby monkey |
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| More standard beach pictures |
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| Balangan Beach |
That it for this post I will have another one up as soon as I can.
