Kecak Dance

Arak...ATTACK!!!

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August 8th 2007
The last few days in Ubud we spent walking around the local villages and checking out a traditional Balinese Kecak Dance. The Kecak is a dramatization of an ancient hindu story and features fire walking and young women performing dances while in a trance. It was pretty interesting. While exploring the villages we walked through rice paddies and terraces while pondering who decided to bury grass ... read more

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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