Wolfgang's photos
Barong figure between two ladies
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A spontane snapshoot from the two ladies Rita and her cousine Mayang and the face of Barong in the middle.
This Barong mask is made in old tradition with money coins, rice corns and colored dry soya beans.
For the Balinese, Barong is the symbol of health and good fortune.
Picture taken in Pura Taman Ayun, Mengwi on Bali.
Tirta Empul almost deserted
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The holy bath with only very few temple goers, as I have never experienced before.
The Corona situation seems to be the reason.
The simple Balinese temple visitor dress code is a traditional kamen wrap or sarong around the lower body plus a sash around the waist. Planning to do the bathing ritual.
Worshiping to the Hindu gods
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Ritadeliana, Ni Komang Mayasanti and her mother Ni Ketut Mukra set their sacrifices with a prayer for having a good destiny for their life and good luck.
All friends and their family are included in the worship.
Holy altar to Tirta Empul
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The Tirta Empul Temple includes the traditional Balinese split gate along with shrines to the Hindugods Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma, Indra and the holy mountain Gunung Batur.
Ni Ketut Mukra, mother of my friends Mayang and her twin sister Komang was sacrifice our offerings to the holy shrine before entering the Pura Tirta Empul Tampak Siring with its holy water spring.
Goa Gajah Elephant Cave
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Goa Gajah is a very popular tourist site and is located only 5 minutes away from Ubud. Hindu priests chose to build the temple on this particular hillside, where two small streams met and together formed a river junction, thus making this site a sacred place.
Cute kids in Tirta Empul
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Tirta Empul is dedicated to Vishnu, the Hindu God of water. In the Balinese language, Tirta Empul loosely translated means water gushing from the earth, which for this reason Tirta Empul is regarded as a holy spring.
The two young girls are greeting out the pool and ask to join the bath in the holy water.
Balinese girl smiling
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The cute small girl was smiling into my camera after entering the complex of Pura Tirta Empul.
Warm welcome back to Bali
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Ritadeliana, the young Balinese woman from my friends' family in Denpasar Kesiman, welcomes and blesses me in the holy bath of Tirta Empul after more than two years of my travels to Bali being interrupted.
I hereby start my newly snapped photos from my new tour and visit to Bali.
Luh Ade and her elder sister Luh Gede
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The two little sweet gorls in the house of my friend and guide I Made Putrawan..
It shows the joy of both of them presenting themselves for this photo and then looking at the result.
Their next wish was
Satu foto lagi, lalu satu lagi, tolong!
(One more photo, and then one more, please)
Rita one more portrait
Demon between the Naga snakes
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Naga snake made of stone in front of temple Champuhan Windhu Segara in Kesiman, Denpasar.
Once I arrived on Bali, I noticed the huge number of stone figures depicting strange mythical creatures or unusual animals like here after entering the inner area of the temple complex.
See you soon again
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This is where my series of trips to Bali ends after a break of more than two years. The crisis of covid-19 hit us all.
Bali is alive again and soon my next tour to the land of demons will follow.
Rita says "Sampai jumpa!"
that means "goodbye, see you again"
Teleg beside the Barong figure
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Teleg better known as Tari Jauk.
His golden crown and necklace (badong) are characteristics of that of a noble hero warrior. He wears awiran, costume of long decorated strips of cloth that covers his breasts. His demonic character can be recognized by his long finger-nails.
Barong is the king of the spirits, leader of the hosts of good, and enemy of Rangda, the demon queen and mother of all spirit guarders in the mythological traditions of Bali.
Warm greetings from Bangkok
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All friends of photography here at Ipernity and all their relatives
our best wishes for a
merry christmas
and an happy, healthy and carefree
New Year 2022
yours Wolfgang and my wife Nattaya from Bangkok
We are all looking forward to more beautiful motifs and good light for many great photos.
Wat Hin Mak Peng at the riverside of Mekong
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Nearby the northern city Nong Khai at the river of Mekong fishing is the pleasure of locals and tourists from far away.
Fishing the Mekong River was formerly Nong Khai's biggest earner. Thai and foreign, visit the city every year and come for fishing.
Other side of Mekong river is Laotian territory.
Portrait of a Bali girl
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I Gusti Agung Ayu Adii Widiadnyani dressed to join the Kuningan festival hold on early morning in the small village Sembung.
Adii, as I call her with her short name, was dancing in many different masks as the goddess Vishnu, as the Bidadari flower girl, as the Lenda Lendi demon and at the Sekar Jepun festival.
I allready postet her portratis photos in other settings:
Young model in the marigold field
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A young Korean tourist guest got captured for a memory photo in the middle of a blooming marigold field.
The Bali marigold fields near Klungkung might just be one of the most unique and unexpected landscapes on the island.
Young girl Legong dancing
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Gek Shanti, a young schoolgirl dancing the Legong at the Puputan place in Denpasar.
The anniversary of Puputan is remembered each year with ceremonies held across Bali at the various places where Puputan occurred.
Gek Shanti, a schoolgirl in the upper class in Denpasar High School of is dancing every year at the Puputan ceremony hold on the same named place in Denpasar.