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Temple Festival
Festival as an important feature of the Balinese life occurs on fixed dates according to the Balinese Calendar. There are annual cycle and every six months celebrations of holidays, life-cycle ceremonies of a Balinese person since the time inside the mother's womb followed in stages up until marriage.
The most important of the Balinese ritual is that includes funeral rites and cremation (ngaben). Local temple festivals may be celebrated according to wuku or Saka calendars. The Bali government tourism office puts out a free comprehensive calendar of events booklet with color photographs, which gives you full details for the whole year.
Also keep an eye on the tourist newspapers, which publish up-to-date lists. Every temple has its annual odalan, an anniversary and purification ceremony, which lasts about three days. The majority of these are small, local affairs, but the celebrations at the large directional temples draw large crowds.
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