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Bali is renowned for many things, from its world-famous delicacies, surf and Sanur is well known where the sky is covered of beautiful and colorful kites. The annual kite festival is always an attraction for kite lovers, both locals, nationals or internationals, and takes place between July and August near Mertasari Beach in Sanur.

This is a religious event, not only a kite flying festival, that sends a message for the gods to bring abundance in crops and harvest. The aim of this event is to promote traditional Balinese kites and preserve local culture.

Traditional giant kites are in various shapes and sizes, all the kites are built by the flyers themselves, and sometimes with help of their local communities, and they’re crafted by traditional Balinese kite patterns. Most of them are giant, and sizes are increased year after year, measuring up to four meters in width and 10 meters in length.

The most common design is the ‘bebean’ type, with a traditional outline of a fish, and is called the ‘giant kite’ of Bali that dominates the sky. Janggan kite has a really long tail, the longest record was about 200 meters! It’s hard to believe, but Balinese kites are bigger than another kite in the world. Flying abilities of all kites are assessed by judges and winners can have some money and trophies. If you want to win, there are some categories such as ‘best launch’, ‘best design’ and also the ‘longest flight’.

But the most important in this competition is that flyers have fun, they make the most impressive kites and also represent their ‘banjar’ (district).

 If you want to spend good times with your family during your stay in the island of Gods, and if you’re lucky to be in Bali in July or August, don’t miss the 38th annual kites festival in Sanur this year

Bali babies don’t start off life on the right foot, or even on the left!

Indeed, in traditional villages, Balinese babies are not allowed to touch the ground until they are three months old. This practice comes from the belief that newborns are sacred and deserve to be treated with veneration. The result is that babies are constantly being carried by their mothers or close family members. Besides the spiritual connection, wouldn’t it be nice to be cuddled all the time?

After 105 days a special ceremony named Nyabutan or Nyambutin is held to celebrate the baby finally touching Mother Earth. A priest is invited to lead the ceremony, and there are various purification rituals, chantings, and blessings. The priest blesses the baby with holy water, and allow the baby’s feet to finally touch the floor. When the baby's feet touch the ground for the very first time, it symbolizes that he is now a full and real human.
 

Balinese wear the most beautiful traditional clothes during religious ceremonies or to attend a wedding for example. Balinese women would look almost like princesses in their brightly colored outfits. For the men's an aura of serenity emerges from them. Behind these colors, there’s a signification.

For women, hair is important. In order to look like the beautiful Drupadi Princess, the bun is the favorite hairstyle of the Balinese. According to tradition, all women must carefully tie their hair, for those with short hair locks of hair are added. They must tie their hair so that they don’t fall into the area of ​​the temples and preserve the sacral temple. For special events, such as a wedding, their tooth filing, a lot of golden metal flowers are stitched into their hair.

Before women were dressed in a long piece of cloth, more than three meters, around their chest, called sabuk. Nowadays, the Balinese wear the kebaya, beautiful long-sleeved shirts, colorful lace and transparent, and below the corsets. With fashion, the shirts become shorter and now reaches the elbow. Around the waist, they wear a sarong, a piece of cloth carried to the ankles, and finally the selendang, the belt is tied to it.

Always well assorted, the whole is very colorful!
The traditional men's outfit consists of a white shirt and a kamben around the waist and covered with another slightly shorter fabric of another color called the saput. The traditional belt is put on the shirt. The Balinese carry the turban on their head, this one is a udang with two petals symbolizing good and evil.

Originally, the kebaya must be of the color of purity and glory, white symbolize purity and yellow triumph. It’s only during cremation that the Balinese women wear dark colors. However, exceptions are made according to castes.

Today, the Balinese follow more fashion, luxury, and this is felt according to social status.