Bali Echo Visitor's Guide

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December/January, 1998
No. 032/VI/97

Christians in
Paradise
How Christianity came
to Bali

Once Upon a
New Years Eve
MC-ing a New Year's
Eve party during a
blackout

The Origin of
Nusa Dua
A fable

People of a
Fertile Sea
The fishers of
Jimbaran beach

Center Stage
Steve Charles revamps
the Candraloka
Amphitheatre

Nusa Dua Nights
How to survive them

The Sacred
Wilderness
Colonial encounters with
Bali's southern peninsula

Latter Day
Laksamana
A.A.M. Djelantik's
recently launched
autobiography

Kulkul
new Fiction by Gde
Aryantha Soethama

The Rat Pack
Who are Bali's literati?

An Eddy in The
Counter of Time
Kayaking off the west
coast of Lombok

Slick and Cool in
Sengigi
Round midnight at the
famed Lombok resort

Regular

Fashion

Adventure
Into the blue

Food
Jewel of the southren rim

Jungle Drums

Bali Update

On the Road

Home Grown
Made Adi Putra

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Christian in Paradise

On December 25 this year, in Palasari, Abianbase, Tuka, Untal-untal, Blimbingsari and Dalung, the birth of Christ will be commemmorated Balinese-style. Putu Wirata visited a number of these predominantly Christian villages to find out about the history of the Christian religion in Bali.

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We all have New Year's Eve memories, some good, some bad, lots of indifferent ones. I have spent many an exhausting New Year's Eve in Bali, braving traffic, rain sometimes, crowds always, searching for the ultimate spot to celebrate the approaching year.

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The Origins of Nusa Dua or...
Once upon a time, in the village of Blahbatuh, there lived a peasant couple called Men Bekung and Pan Bekung. For many years, they remained childless, hence their name Bekung (childless). But Men Bekung and Pan Bekung were faithful Hindu followers, so they went to meditate and pray for a child in the nearby temple of Kutri, the seat of the powerful Durga, the god Siwa's terrible consort. While they were meditating late a night, suddenly...

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Latter Day Laksamana

In the Ramayana epic, Rama, the prince, embodies goodness, mercy and dharma. To complement these qualities, his younger brother, the loyal Laksamana personifies truth, faith, honesty and chivalry. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given their upbringing as sons of the then still powerful Raja of Karangasem, Anak Agung Made Djelantik and his elder brother, Gede, the Crown Prince, adopted the personae and roles of Laksamana and Rama respectively.

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Slick and Cool in Senggigi
The daytime streets of Senggigi, Lombok are hot and lazy. Many shops are closed for siesta, tourists flock to the beaches to escape the heat, local youths survey the street from atop motorcycles parked in the shade. In the midday heat everything is slow-moving and calm. With the coolness of night, things start to stir a little. Tourists head to the restaurants and cafes, and the Lombok youth venture in for a party. At night, the Senggigi clubs are a magnet to revelers from Mataram and beyond.

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Think Green
Spoil yourself and your loved ones. Take some time in the holiday season to explore Bali's most beautiful boutiques. Indulge in the quirky stylish treasures that abound there.

Wakamaya, a sanctuary by the sea
Just south of placid Sanur, a narrow road winds through coconut groves and past sparsely spaced local dwellings before it reaches a sanctuary on the edge a forest of mangroves. This is Waka Maya, the most recent stroke of genius from the young Balinese designer and architect Ketut Siandana.