Hari Raya Nyepi (nyepi day) is the hindu new years. It is on a 210 day cycle and happened to fall on March 19th this year. Nyepi day is a day of silence where no one is allowed to use leave their home, use electricity or other lamps, etc...if you are a tourist you are allowed a few more luxuries, but you still cannot leave the hotel (we made sure we had a nice pool and and were on right on the beach!!)
the day before nyepi is Tawur Kesanga, a cleansing & excorsing day. All the male teenagers in the village spend weeks creating giant paper mache monsters. On the day of kids parade them through the streets at sun down run wildly and doing crazy dances with them. Afterwards they burn them in giant bonfires.
all the little villages were decorated with all sorts of palm weavings & other crafts
some of the ogoh-ogohs
these boys were very,very proud of their sculpture (it was very good) and were extremely rowdy as well (many of the boys are drinking the local fire water, arak,---and some even took swigs which they lit on fire during the parade!!)
a young group of boys with an amature but admirable effort of ogoh-ogoh insisted that joe take the head (which they dont burn) home with him... unfortunately it didnt fit in his back pack.
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