The Museum of Don Antonio Blanco Achieved Award

The Blanco Renaissance Museum or well-known as Museum Don Antonio Blanco reached exclusive award, among of them is Bali Best Brand and Bali International Customer Satisfaction Award (BBB-BICSA) 2014 and also Travelers Choice Attraction Award 2014.

Mario Blanco, the successor of The Blanco Renaissance Museum in Ubud said that he glad and thankful although since from the beginning of its development, the museum didn't focused to achieve an award (kompas.com - December 27th, 2014).

The first award came from BBB-BICSA 2014, an event that held to appreciating thousand brands in Bali from the matter of industry, tourism, banking, school or academy and various products. The event which held last October in Bali was a cooperation between Bali Convex Nusa Dua with ASEAN Entrepreneur Center Bali and Indra Bekti Management Jakarta.

Mario said that all they (the museum) doing not for award only, but more to how they keep and save the heritage which fully  loaded with pure arts and culture.

Museum The Blanco Renaissance located in area Campuhan,  village Ubud  Gianyar   - Bali. This museum build by a legendary Spain- American painter, Don Antonio Blanco. He found Ubud as his inspirational source, after traveling from many place around the world. Even, after he passed away, his name still remembered because his sincere service to introducing Ubud to world wide through his beautiful paintings.

This museum have 300 collections of Antonio Blanco and more than 100 paintings are his personal artwork.

Mario hoped that the passion of local society to visit this museum will increase because the place like this have priceless value.

From : Kompas.com

Hotels in Bali Start To Full-booked

New year's eve on Bali is always becoming a favourite destination. Most hotels are already full-booked as said by Marketing & Communication Manager Padma Resort Bali at Legian, Yohanes Hutahuruk. In hotel Padma Legianis already full-booked for new year's long vacation.

"From the middle of December (2014) to early January (2015) are full. Most hotels in Bali are full-booked. We usually struggling on November until early December, because visitors think these time close to the end of year." said Yohanes on a visit to the office of Kompas.com last December 18th, 2014.

He said, the biggest visitor which will spend their end of year on Padma Legian come from Australia. "Indeed, our market focusing to Australia. End of year 80% come from Australia and the rest come from various local visitor, and China, Europe also America." Yohanes explained.

The opposite, Bali will experiencing low visit level season on the middle of January until March. After that long period, it will be crowded again, moreover it is the summer time.

Padma Hotels & Resorts also planning to open a new hotel on Bali, there is Padma Ubud which will be located in the village Puhu, Ubud that will open on June 2015. Another locations in Bali are Tegalalang and Payangan,  both of them located in Gianyar.

As written on Kompas.com

Celebrate Kuningan, Money Rain in Tabanan

Hindu people in Bali celebrating Kuningan day, Saturday (11/2/2012) as a series of Galungan on Wednesday, last week. If usually Hindus celebrate Kuningan with praying in the temple with the family, the villagers of Bongan Tabanan have unique traditions to commemorate the day that fell  once in every 6 months.

In the village that consists of 100 families have an unique tradition, they spreading money called Mesuryak. According to the beliefs of the citizens, the money is spread out when Mesuryak is a means to equip ancestral spirits who had died so that have a good place in their world.

"Mesuryak tradition is a tradition that trusted to deliver ancestors to heaven, "said Kelian Adat Banjar Bongan Gede, I Made Wardana, on the sidelines of events Mesuryak in this morning.

In every house that does the tradition of Mesuryak invaded by citizens who want to gaining money that spread out in the air by the host. From children to adults, they did not hesitate to mutual scrambling for money, from Rp 500 to Rp 100 thousand. In fact, not a few who suffered injuries due to a fall when this money rain held.


source : http://regional.kompas.com/read/2012/02/11/1447360/

Ketut Liyer's Charm until Bulgaria

Bulgaria, a country located in eastern europe, has similarities with Balinese culture. Currently, tourists from Bulgaria more interested in visitting Bali because of these similarities. What is that?

"People in Bulgaria pleased with mystical things. We have a shaman, like Bali that have a shaman as well," says Greta Veselinova, director and founder of Libra, on the sidelines of the ASEAN Tourism Forum, Manado, recently. Libra is a tour operator from Bulgaria.

Shaman who he referred to the intention of Bali as balian. Balian was believed to have the ability to treat traditionally as well as provide spiritual guidance. Foreign tourists who come to Bali used to call it as a traditional healer.

According to Greta, a documentary that tells balian was running in his country. Since then, she said, people of Bulgaria were attracted to Bali for feel by themself its experience of meeting balian.
"More and more people of Bulgaria that came to my office to ask about the shaman and ask about guided tours to Bali to meet the shamans," she said.

She planning to visit Bali at the end of this month in order to design a tour package to meet balian. One of the traditional healer from Bali which is quite famous in the world is Ketut Liyer. Since he appeared in the book and film of Eat, Pray, Love, a growing number of foreign tourists who come to his house to meet and consult to him directly.

In Ubud, travel agency used to selling tour package to meet traditional healer. After the tourists brought to visiting some attractions place in Ubud, they came to home of balian, both for spiritual consultation or traditional treatment.


source : http://travel.kompas.com/read/2012/01/19/16085695/