The inside of the temples welcomes worshipers and offerings
Temple entrances splendidly decorated
Decorated Besakih temple
The inside of the temples welcomes worshipers and offerings
worshipers during a collective prayer
and elegant outfits which inspired me
 
Me wearing a typical prayer outfit
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At the end of each Balinese calendar year, every 210 days, the island devotes two weeks to ceremonies in each temple. Everything is decorated with compositions of palm leaves and with colored flags for each divinity. It is an incredible sight of a crowd dressed in the finest clothes, with flowers in the hair and towers made of offerings carried by the women on their head. The priests lead the incantations from above the masses who repeat as one. It was my first time in Bali, and I was astonished as I did not know these were the most important ceremonies of all the ones that take place there, on an island where a celebration can be found every single day. Fascinated by the nobility and looks of all the Balinese, I have since gone back many times, and have even provided myself with a full outfit for prayers.
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