We saw many beautiful & amazing Balinese cultural performances. Here is a quick sampling of a few. Most are characters & snippets of stories from the ancient Hindu text, the Ramayana.
Lord Rama & Lady Sita enter the Kacek performance
Garuda, a mythical eagle-like deity, comes to save the prisoners
Barong gets happy feet
Hanuman, the monkey king, doesn’t like being imprisoned by fire
Dancing with dragons
Wisnu riding Garuda in the big finale
Oh my f-in god. Here I am, in my bed, enjoying my brother’s lovely posts. Then. Then. I find myself yelling at a man I don’t know: STOP TAUNTING THE MONKEY. IT WANTS TO EAT YOUR FACE. Why I watched the monkey gauntlet video in the first place is something I should see professional help for.
I haven’t been keeping up with your travels….so now I’m way behind. I can’t even pronounce these recent places, but they are beautiful. So happy to be traveling through you…much easier this way. Now I have to find the taunted monkey. Hope you’ve both recovered from your “Asian flu”….Robin
So happy to hear from you! We’ve been bouncing around quite a bit over on this side of the pond. Checking off those bucket list places. We’re feeling much better now – hope you are doing well in this flu season.