The Gamelan Girls
I met francesco (the Italian) lurking amonst these exotic Women one night in Ubud, Bali . On the days leading up to Nyepi the Womens Gamelan group of Ubud toured a few temples of the surrounding area. Using charm that both the Queen and the Pope would have been proud of we got in on a fantastic daytrip with fourty balinese women. We saw vast offerings to the gods, we ate the deliscious food and of course we dressed up accordingly. We sat for hours listening to the motor-rythms of the Balinese Gamelan. It was one of those perfect days which feels like a dream now.
The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hos... ... read more 
