Saturday, April 5, 2014

Bali Finali

Pronounced, Bali Finale. Composed as we sit in the Denpassar airport waiting for our flight to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) through Singapore. This is a selection of photos which sum up Bali in a photographic/philosophical way.

Rice, nearly ripe.

Transporting plate glass.

Hotel ad.

Wedding entrance detail.
Champion carrier.
Guardian stone figures are everywhere, often wrapped in this checkered cloth whose significance we have not learned.
Ditto


Commercial signs and stores are also numerous.
Most numerous of all are motor scooters.

Visitors find momentary relief from the heat and humidity. Never have so few sweated so much.

Natural beauty and construction equipment combine to show the future.

This flashy Buddha is disintegrating.

Some flowers are too spectacular

Pre-pubescent female dancers

Hand-carved privacy door sign at Menjangan Resort
Demon for Nyepi

Schoolchildren salvage remnants of demon after Nyepi (most are burned)
 
Ancient sun symbol survives.
Balinese continue to make offerings.
Tourists continue to struggle to find beauty...

...and to enjoy the fruits of the land. [Mangosteen]



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