Bali Echo Magazine Edition Pebruary 2000

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No.045/IX/Feb-Mar 2000

Under The Trance

Village Banter In Bali

Contradiction In Harmony

The Lure of Gamelan Gong
The Reading of The Ancient Texts

"Identity" by Putu Wijaya

Around Nusa Lembongan

Summit to Sea

Antonio Blanco

Nyoman in Missing

Cafes of The East
Restaurant News

Cricket Nets

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Tourism in The Southern Part of Lombok
The Beautiful Pearls of Lombok
Lombok Update

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I am going to ask you to suspend your western mind while reading this story, in other words that portion of the brain dedicated to European rationality needs to be put on hold. Just for a while, leave it in "park", remove all the skepticism. Believe. This is what l had to do for a few days in East Bali where l was on yet another quest to see a portion of the real Bali, the one untouched by western ways, where the culture remains ancient and intact. By Pamela Tibbs.
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We foreigners who stay in Bali live like little islands in a sea of Balinese humanity that flows around us, moving with its own currents. It is a sea of sound; the voices of some three million Balinese people in seemingly incessant conversation. Since most of us do not speak Balinese, we simply let the ocean of talk wash over us, and can only guess at its content. One can't help but wonder what it could it be that presupposes so much talking? What is on their minds? What is the stuff of today's ngomongan?
Susy Johnston lets us in on the conversation.
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In the beginning there is chaos. A wild world that threatens human beings must be tamed, firstly through identification.
When identification has reached the limits of human intellectual ability, myth is invented. The objective is to make a bridge to "the other", something which is not understood, so that the world is no Ionger a threat. At this level, chaos changes to cosmos, and disharmony finds harmony.
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As a student of the gamelan gong, and eventually an accomplished musician and performer, New Zealander Vaughan Hatch gives an insider's perspective on the delights of Balinese music...

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The first thing one notices in the shadows of the dimly-lit temple is the mysterious mumbling of human voices, which is not quite that of a chant, but not quite that of normal conversation either. If one approaches the bale (open pavilion), one sees a small group of men sitting in the lotus position around a short table, on which lies a book or a long palm-leaf manuscript (Lontar). Ail are dressed in Balinese fashion with a sarong and
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"l wish l was a Balinese", Linda said to her guide. "People here go through their life as if it is a long ceremony. Every day feels like a procession through life that makes them always think, feel and act like a member of society. I'm bored with individuality that makes people isolated, lonely and free from the collective life that is needed to welcome this new millennium, to make it more peaceful than previous years." Linda grasped Nyoman Neli's shoulder. "Tell me how l can be a part of this paradise island, Nyoman. I'm dissatisfied with being just a tourist. All l can do is witness this beauty with jealousy. After this holiday, the situation is really different. What should l do?"
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Diving and surfing, however, are two important commodities in the tourism business in Bali. Many new dive centres have appeared during the few years. They depend on, and at the same time are responsible for, the underwater habitat. Besides being well known for its, cultural. assets, Bali also holds a strong asset in nature, including the richness found under the water.

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Joy Hemmans travels to the heights and depths of Bali in search of some of the unique features of this compact adventure island.
One of the more well known and certainly most well-publicized conquests of the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, was a determined attempt to start from the lowest possible point at sea level in India and travel by foot across the plains and hilly rises in the
north of the country before finally ascending to the actual peak of the mountain in Nepal.

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Don Antonio Blanco didn't wait to see the new Millennium. Fate didn't allow it On 10 December 1999 this expatriate artist, whose name has long been associated with the exotic forms of the
Balinese nude, passed away Denpasar after a long illness. It was as if the "Maestro, as he was called, had voluntarily kept his life within the limits of a century which saw Bali change from a pristine "paradise" into one of the centres of international tourism, with himself one of the central actors of this dramatic transformation.

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Most of the beaches in the southern part of the island of Lombok consist of white sand. These beaches are even whiter than Senggigi
Beach in West Lombok and Kuta Beach in Bali. What makes them even more attractive is the backdrop of the mountain and coral reefs offshore. This is of great value and is excellent for tourism. Apart from the increasingly well known Kuta Beach in Lombok (not to be confused with the one in Bali, Tanjung Aan (Cape Aan) and Tanjung Tampa (Cape Tampa), also have beautiful white sand.
By Ichsannudin llham.

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