Tuesday, May 31, 2005

2nd Day Evening - Uluwatu (24/5/05)

I'm going to update my Bali trip randomly hope you all dun mind! :)

today, i want to talk about my 2nd day evening trip on Bali island. Alex and me went to Uluwatu on bike, and it's the southest part of the island. we heard the sunset at Pura Uluwatu (Uluwatu Temple) is really nice, and have a wonderful Kecak and Fire Dance on every evening 6pm. and we kinda eager to see the beautiful cliff as shown on Discovery travel guide.

End of the world

So, here you see something like the end of the world isn't it!! trust me, to see it with my own eyes it's breathtaking!!

Crystal clear water

What i was really amazed with the place is the colours! the rich blue and jade green of the water, foamy white waves, crystal clear water that from far, i could still see the corals in the sea... f**king amazing!! i even spotted few people fishing down there... wonder how they get there... i dare not!!

Alex and me

Now, this is my travel companion for this time. Alex is my ex-student, who worked as a photojournalist, notice the big Nikon camera on his neck?? well, i think he took about 400 photos this trip!

Sunset behind the stage

This is the place where we see the Kecak and Fire Dance performance that evening. Ticket for the show is Rp.50,000 per person (about RM20). They said you must at least go for a dance performance in Bali, so we chose this one. No regret! the dance and chanting is superb, with the sunset behind the performance, it's simply marvelous!

notice the temple behind

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Beautiful Kecak silhouttes

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Well, the dance is a story about how a princess has been caught by an evil, so the prince has to ally with the monkey army force to win the princess back... i'll update the full story tomorrow... (you all don't need to know anyway! haha)
They are at least 8 main characters in the show, all dressed up in striking colours - red, white, gold, green, and all dance with cramp-like finger movement!!! very entertaining! then there will be 100 bare-chested men circling the main stage, chanting with different tones and pitch and rhythm, that sounded pretty annoying at first... but when you get used to the 3D-like chanting, you started to enjoy the catchy "chak-ka-ta-ka-chak-ka-ta-ka" routine.
at the end of the show, i took a photo with the artists... most photos were taken by Alex, so i have to wait for him to burn CD for me first before i could upload them up here... so bare with me ok!!! :)
that's it for tonight! (more to come... stay tune!)

4 comments:

Nightraveller said...

Is the "purple skirt" Balinese traditional custom? :-p

So tempted to go Bali toooooo!!!

Teddy Beh said...

it is actually a "sarong", to enter temple, we must wear sarong with a "yao tai" (waist belt?!), notice the yellow color one that we had on. or at least long pants with the waist belt. you may say it's a custom lah.
Bali is a nice place, a must go! but full of slicky people, gotta be very careful! will tell you all more! ;)

Teddy Beh said...

Bali is one place where i'll consider to revisit someday. It's full of surprises and rich in culture.
Teh botol is one drink which i'll consider to stock in someday. It's authentic yet challenge my taste bud. (definitely my favourite drink there, Frestea also great!)
Thanks for visiting my humble little abode, who's your fren that recommended you here??

Anonymous said...

Didn't know that you're going to Bali, if not can ask you to buy one of those "arty" ashtrays. Heheh! I was in Bali last yeat Oct, the trip was marvellous. Checkout my pictures at

http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/68e6b/66f/