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• An expatriate's diary of life in Bali - Made Wijaya's comical and sometimes cynical look at life and culture in Bali.
• Bali Arts and Crafts - Artistically Bali is a melting pot of cultures and traditions. The Balinese have a natural capacity for absorbing different cultural elements to blend them with their own to produce dynamic new hybrids. Over the years Bali has been the recipient of numerous influences, Chinese, Buddhist, Indian, Hindu, Javanese and most recently, Western. For centuries artists and craftsmen in Bali worked under the patronage of the priests and ruling classes, decorating palaces and temples. The artists themselves were anonymous, never signing their work and usually living close together in artists' 'villages'.
• Bali Arts Festival - When tourism took off after 1965, the Balinese insisted that it followed cultural guidelines: if tourism was to be accepted, it was to be a cultural tourism, or "pariwisata budaya".
• Cozmic Zone - artists and designers, creating fashion and art, and dissolving the line that separates the two
• Villages of Bali - The idea of balance is central to Balinese philosophy and way of life. Nature and Man meet and complement each other. ```` The villages are a study in order. Hidden behind the same mud walls, there will be the same red tiles of the same family pavilions with, again thirty meters apart, the same thatched puppet houses: the family temples (sanggah/merajan).

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