Bali Tour Guide

I went to Ubud one evening with two clients form California (US). The plan was we are going to watch a cultural performance at The Puri Saren or Ubud Palace. Ubud Palace was just situated in the center of Ubud, just opposite of Ubud art market. In one corner, there is this Ibu OKa suckling pig stall, and next to the stall is the village hall where the locals hold meeting. This time the Legong dance was performed in the village hall instead of the Puri Saren. On the normal day., the show of Legong. or Ramayana, depending on the day you are here, is held in the outer yard of the palace. The palace in Bali is a compound with lots of open building (pavilion). Palace in Bali i is much totally different. It looks like a Bali temple. Have you seen a Bali temple? It is divided into three yards. The outer, middle, and main yard.The main courtyard is where the prayer is taking place. The same thing goes with the palace. And it's in the outer yard where the dance show is performed. As we got ...

At the beginning of this dance, if you hear the dancers shout," chuck, chuck, chuck" they don't mean to call a guy named "Chuck". The dancers makes sounds like these (or in Balinese language it is cak, cak, cak, since we read the words as it is written) in order to imitate the Balinese musical instrument. This dance does not use any form of musical instrument. Instead it uses sounds combination which is made by all the dancers. (The number of dancers can be fifty to one hundred ) It may appear like a choir. Kecak dance was created by Wayan Limbak in around 1930 with Walter Spies, a German painter who lived in Bali. The dance was ispired by Sang Hyang Dance (a kind of trance dance where the dancer is possesed by achestral spirit). The Kecak dance alway tells a story of Ramayana. It is a journey of Prince Rama and his wife Sitha, along with his brother, Laksmana, who together go to the forest. In the forest, Sitha sees a golden deer, and pleaded Rama to capture th...