Bali life
Journeys of Aardvarc
Ed
Sun 14 Sep 2008 04:22
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position 08:44.6S 115:12.5E
Indonesia is composed of thousands of islands ...
at lease 13,000 and is the fourth most populated country in the
world.
These photos give an idea of the various
occupations local people have.
At first you can see a girl working in a
silversmith, handmaking jewellery.
We were taken also to a Batik works where cloth is
painted by hand with designs using natural dyes and the using wax to allow
certain areas of the fabric to be dyed and not others.
You can see they even use an old "Singer " sewing
machine.
A typical old style village home consists of
separate buildings for kitchen, bedroom, animal quarter, grandparents room,
honeymoon room ( for 3 days only!) then back to be used by the mother and
father.
Babies are not allowed to touch the ground at all
until they reach 3 months of age.
Each traditional family house has its own
temple....most Bali people are Hindu whereas the rest of Indonesia is mainly
Muslim.
Other photos show people slicing rice cakes,
gathering rice in the paddies, roasting coffee beans ( grown locally) and
visiting the temple to bathe and make offerings.
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