Bali & The Kecak Dance - Part 2
The weekend getaway to Bali, was exciting. The second day saw us hiring a cab to take us to various locations. We started off with a dance show, The Barong and ended up with a dance show called the Kecak at Batubulan. The one that made an impression till now is the dance show, Kecak. It relates the love story between Rama and Sita backed by about 50 to 70 men in trance singing in rhythm without any musical accompaniment. It is also the event where I made full use of my Canon G7 camera to shoot in the dark at its highest ISO3200 and using a telephoto lens without any aid of the flash internal or external.
The men in trance humming, “cak,cak, kecak, cak” in rhythm.
The beautiful Sita.
Sita and Rama in courtship.
Sita in love and despair
Sita is captured by the evil king and taken away to his abode
Hanuman, comes to the rescue.
The men in trance as the enhance the scene
Sita gives Hanuman her hairpin to pass it to Rama as a sign of her love to him
The battle is over and they unite.
Most of the scenes were very fast action which caused many pictures to be blurred.
We visited at least 9 other areas.
1. Monkey Forest at Ubud where the monkeys posed happily for me
2. The Handicraft Centre.
3. The Coffee Plantation near Tampak Siring
The coffee seed
Roasting the seeds
They served us black coffee and cocoa.
4. Mount and Lake Batur
5. Painting Centre near Batuan
6 & 7. Gold and Silver Centres near Celuk
8. The Bazaar for shopping with so many Orchids
9. The Barong Dance
- a mystical barong (the good)
vs the demon (the bad) story
The musical orchestra
The actors and actresses
The Garuda bird
The men in trance stabbing themselves
Well, something to cool that beating heart!
Enjoy!
August 14th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Great photos George. Perhaps it’s a good thing you drowned the Canon Powershot.
Lots of the Aussies go to Bali I hear. It seems like an interesting place, besides being so beautiful.
I thought for a moment that was one of your sister’s desserts.
August 15th, 2007 at 1:58 am
I like the monkey smiling at you
August 15th, 2007 at 5:38 am
wondeful pictures, tks george.
u all didn’t go to Bali Spa?|||….
what a lovely family trip to Bali.
cheers
August 16th, 2007 at 6:28 am
Like the monkey’s photo. On the whole the photos are very nice. Description a bit shorter.
August 17th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
fantastic post. i was there b4 i started blogging so not many pics or as good as these.
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