Tag: Nyepi

• Silence! Well, Sort Of

  Richard Laidlaw Bali, Mar. 7, 2019 IT’S Nyepi today in Bali. Tomorrow, Mar. 8, 2019 CE, it will be the first day of 1941 in the Balinese Hindu Caka (say Shaka) calendar of 210 days. We’ve been more or less fixtures in Bali since 1926. Our first Nyepi, back in the Roaring Caka Twenties, was…

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  March 7, 2019

  Bali

  Nyepi, Silent Day

• Lights Out!

  HECTOR’S DIARY His diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Bali, Saturday, Mar. 25, 2017 IT’S Nyepi on Tuesday, Bali’s Silent Day. It is celebrated on the first new moon in March, which this year is on Mar. 28, at the same time as Indian Hindus mark their festival of Ugadi. It ushers in the…

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  March 26, 2017

  Bali, China, History, Indonesia, Japan, USA

  Japan Times, Nyepi, Osaka, Prime Minister Abe

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Mar. 3, 2016

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences    Don’t Miss Saigon A few days gazing at the Saigon River from the 16th floor apartment of friends, enjoying the quieter street life of post-Tet Ho Chi Minh City, cruising on the Mekong, and briskly sampling the crispness of the mountain resort city of Dalat,…

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  March 1, 2016

  Bali, Festivals, Indonesian Law, Lombok, Music, Politics, Public Administration, Social Development, Tourism, Travel, Ubud, Vietnam

  Ari Juliant, Bali Spirit Festival, Dalat, Deepak Chopra, Dvorak, Gay Emoticons, Handel, Huh – What’s That Scale, Mark Heywood, Mekong Delta, Nyepi, PLN, Prostitution, Ric Shreves, Saepul Bahri, Saigon, Saigon River, Sunday soirees, Terry Renton, The Studio Lombok, Wallace Line, Yoga

• HECTOR’S DIARY Bali Advertiser, Mar. 18, 2015

  His fortnightly diet of worms and other non-religious experiences Gone to the Dogs The resurgence of rabies in Bali is yet another of those avoidable things that the chaps in charge of the asylum could have avoided if they could have been bothered, or if they hadn’t blown the budget on lots of other things.…

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  March 17, 2015

  Animal Welfare, Bali, Capital Punishment, Charity, Environment, Indonesia, Public Administration, Rabies

  Christina Iskandar, Divas, Dog culls, Duke of Plaza-Toro, Eco Kids Program, Elizabeth Pisani, Eva Scolaro, Governor Pastika, Joe Cochrane, New York Times, Nyepi, rabies, ROLE Foundation Bali, Slippery Stone, Tim Hannigan, Waste Management