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The lunch concerts and evening concerts take place on the outdoor stage of the Bali Taman Hotel, Lovina Beach. The program features a selection of traditional music and dance styles of the various cultural centers of Buleleng, introduced by I Wayan Dibia and North Balinese seniman tua (old masters). The evening concerts focus on specific topics:

- old fashioned mabarung (competition) between east and west Buleleng, featuring dances like Taruna Jaya/Wiran Jaya and Palawakia,

- rare and sacred ensembles, featuring a unique semar pagulingan from the Munduk/Gobleg area and a recently restored gong gede from Tejakula,

- contemporary works from A.A. Bulan Trisna (dance) and a newly commissioned work by I Gusti Bagus Suarsana (gong kebyar).

The program will be regularly updated on the schedule page.

Sanghyang Jaran, the Pemangku (temple priest) or a group of chosen men becomes himself the Sanghyang, possessed by ancestral deity, a Gandarwa (celestial soldier) on horseback. The dance is performed in the inner court yard of the death temple. As in Sanghyang Dedari the dancer is put into trance with wafted of incense and chorus of Sanghyang song. In the state of trance the dancer fall, convulsed to the ground and rush to grab hobby horses. During the pre-trance chanting, coconut shells have been lit, leaving red hot coals.

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Balinese have many love stories that are interesting to be read in Valentine day. I use the word interesting here since most of these stories are tragedy. Death is important element in these stories. It befell either on one or both of the couple. Death in this stories serves as the ultimate test to love.

Here is the most popular Balinese love story that has a touch of tragedy in it

Jayaprana and Layonsari

Once upon a time, mthere was a family consisted parents and their 4 children. They lived in Kalianget village, North Bali. One day deadly plague attacked the village. The members of that family dead except the third child, named Jayaprana.

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Belandingan is located on a hilly area, make it suitable for jungle tracking and agro-tourism. Most of the inhabitant of Belandingan are farmers and their farms are usually far from their house so they made huts (pondok) in their farms and live there most of the time. They usually go back to their house when there is a temple ceremony in the village.

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