Bali. Culture

Time Bali

Culture in Bali is the source of the life of the town that becomes essential for the identity of its inhabitants, with a way of to live completely different if it is compared with the rest of the country. Weigh to the massive visit of tourists the town balinés has been successful in to conserve its culture.

The dance and the dance are the best way of to entertain itself. They execute so much for the traveller as for celebrations of the festivales of each region. Formerly the dances they were tie to the religious ceremonies and although they do not have lost absolutely that reality, its purpose is, more and more distracting and to entertain the spirit.
The most famous dances are the Bedaya and the Serimpi, that are danced in Central Java.
As always this culture has happened through time absorbing customs and adapting other cultures to its form of life. Their people are opened people who to that they offer a warm welcome to new ideas, but to the time conserve a form of unique life marked by his religious, social and cultural traditions.

Calendar small bullets

balineses follow two systems of calendar: the western calendar and Saka calendar.
The Saka calendar differs less from the western one in 79 years. In this calendar, a month has 35 days, a year 420 days. Therefore, date of the new year varies year to year with respect to the date of western calendar