For you who visit Bali this month, August. You are lucky to be able to see the fourth installment of Sanur Village Festival 2009!

This year theme is “Marine Life” in line with the extension of national program Visit Indonesia Year 2009.  Cultural activities will still dominate this festival such as traditional performances, parade, music, collaboration show, water sports and food festival as our main attraction, also not to forget our green program under water festival with its coral reef plantation. Please visit official website for more detail: http://gotosanur.com

Today 5th August 2009, sky is partly cloudly, makes me a little worry will ruins my plan to pray to some temples here in Bali. Everything was ready for the pray and set to go.

First stop before going to Uluwatu Temple was Pura Dalem Tanah Kilap in Suwung near “Simpang Siur”. There are two temples here, and we have to pray in both places. As I predict before, this place was already full of people queuing to pray. We spent around one hour, and feel really happy after received splash of holy water from “pemangku”.

The next temple now is Uluwatu, 15 km away from Tanah Kilap, a really exotic temple for its sunset view. The place is also for Kecak Dance performance right on the other cliff toward to Uluwatu Temple cliff. And I was right, there was rain along the way to Uluwatu, I feel lucky I was not hit the rain. On the enter front of the temple, we saw many “still” tourist visiting one of Bali’s most visited places in Bali. Tourist still able to enter only the front temple, but not allowed to enter more to the top part of the temple. Still not many worshipper visit the temple, may be because still early, I predict there will be more people in the evening. After pray session, me and my wife decided to take some pictures, so we can share to everyone who wants to visit Bali.

Despite of the last hotels bombing in Jakarta, seems that it doesn’t effect the Global Travel Magazine and Leisure to name Bali as the Best Island in the World 2009. Bali beat other exotic island such as Kauai in Hawaii and Maldives.

The choices it self was coming from the magazine’s readership survey conducted between January and March 2009 with many parameter including hotels, culture, food, etc. However some big travel to Bali has canceled trip to Bali and decided to go to Australia.

For local government, please don’t just say, ” I hope no Bombing in Bali” instead of to prepare the worst and clear Bali from any possible plan to make the same terror in the island.