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Bali geographically located in the tropical zone
has only 2 seasons, that is wet seasons and dry
season. West season normally starting October until
April, while dry season starting April until September.
A part from natural season, a social life season
are also known as other countries in the world.
Some season even worst when the holiday is at the
same time with international vocation such as
July, August, Christmas and New Year. During
these holiday seasons Bali in whatever condition
so far has always been full with travelers. It has
been well recorded by the service provider in tourism
that during these seasons with the excessive demand
of services, have given more advantage. That is
why all prices during these season are higher. Hotels
put surcharges on their regular discounted rates.
Although prices are higher it does not mean quality
of service then increases, this is just because
of the law of supply and demand. Even tour organizers
worry of the over capacity of all staffs in the
service providers which could bring the focus less
intensive, and in turn lowering the quality of service.
Among above holiday seasons, Christmas and New year
are the most crowded situation as most companies
giving annual leave or long weekend during these
dates. These season is called peak season to emphasize
on high season of july and August. Rates are higher
during this season compared to July and August.
Other Holidays
There are many other holiday season which do not
affect the rates, but often high occupancy. These
holidays come from both national or international
seasons such as
7 January 2008 : Chinese New Year holiday and hotels
in Bali will be fully booked during the date. Especially
dates from 6 to 8th January will be totally overbooked.
This has been going since many years.
3 February 2011 Chinese New Year, and during this 2 days holiday
normally from 14 to 15 February all hotels in Bali will be fully booked.
23 April 2011 Saraswati, a facultative
holiday in Bali where every household will perform a ceremony
at their respective home.
5 March 2011 Hindu New Year celebration,
called Nyepi. During the dates of 6 and 7 March the situation
will be very specific. "Nyepi" is Balinese common
word derived from the root of " sepi " meaning quiet.
To form intransitive verb it got nasal sound [ N ] referring
to the situation of " stay in quietness, focusing or
contemplating ", so as if it is no sounds is heard outside
the focus of the mind. From the point of ritualistic religion
this day is marked with the ceremony which basic purpose is
to look back and have an overview of all previous deeds and
direction of one's life, and bring back those small deviations
into their right tract. Since Balinese do not relay all their
life on reasoning of physical matters, they also beg the benevolent
of nature's power (gods). The very basic of human is the "
wish " which is believed to have born the greediness
and in turn have born the evil spirits, which always give
temptations to human beings themselves. In this day one will
evaluate and discard all their misdeeds, and looking forward
to the god blessed one.
day before Nyepi From around 18.00 Central Indonesia
Time, it is conducted a ceremony called " Ngerupuk "
at every village ( Balinese : Banjar ). Today the ceremony
has been conducted in some what same procedure and with same
ritualistic materials. In the past it was only a praying activity
to the gods for entering the " Nyepi " day, and
praying for everything be in good and smooth. This is followed
with the deafening sounds of beaten can, bamboo, and other
materials, fire parades, and the sounds of the " lesung"
produced by interwoven hits between a canoe and base ball
stick like tools used to clean the rice. Later around the
year of 1970s it was followed by a parades of " ogoh-ogoh
", a monster made to look like any frightening faces.
This monster will be held around the village or along the
main road by many youths, or following the main roads, and
often last until 22.00 mid-night. The purpose of all of these
is to put away all evil spirits from human mind.
6 July 2011 Galungan Hindu Ritual.
It is not national holiday yet it is for locally commemorated
in Bali and conducted with minimum leave of work by changing
the weekly leave or other ways yet for Balinese praying to
their temple will be certainly be presence. Actually being
in Bali during this day would give special experience of the
most festive season of Bali. Service staffs might change in
more frequency to give time of staffs to go for praying. One
must have been aware of the possible effect of changing staff,
which should be respected.
16 July 2011 Kuningan Hindu Holiday,
the same situation as Galungan, only less festive and only
half of the day that people joining the ceremony.
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beauty of Bali Island has long been known world wide. It is
true that the beauty appears from her various living art,
yet also her natural views such as tropical white beaches,
mountains, lakes and man made natural view such as rice terraces
carved on the sloping land for the use of rice cultivation.
The combination among various cultural aspects and natural
beauty of Bali will give a different experience for everyone
visiting the island beside the hospitability of her people.
Dances, carvings, paintings, music are on the top of Bali's
interesting aspects for people visiting the island. Visit
interesing places.
17 May 2011 Waisak Holiday, a
Buddhist religious ceremony for Bali is not influenced to
much by this holiday.
One 17 August 2008 : the celebration
of Indonesian independence. During this time all shops, government
offices are closed, yet for those already staying in Bali
has no problem for the activities such as sightseeing, tours
or any pre-arranged program.
30 - 31 August Idul Fitri Islam Holiday.
With the policy of Indonesian civil service that starting 9 to 13 September will be
a collective holiday, it makes Bali overbooked. This event has been twice experienced in Bali when
all hotels are totally overbooked.
25 December 2011 Followed by
collective holiday by government offices, during Christmas
holiday which is normally from 20 to 27 December, again all
hotels in Bali will be overbooked.
New Year 2012 As usual in whatever
conditon of Bali, always fully booked and traveller normally
already booked 6 months before. |
