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There are also temple festivals, fasting and retreat ceremonies, parades to the sea to cleanse villages, special prayer days for the dead, nights of penance (sivaratri), harvest festivals (usaba), blood sacrifices, and house deity anniversaries (odalan sangguh).

No one who has encountered a Balinese procession will ever forget the total immersion into Balinese culture and the wonderful opportunity to interact with the people on a special occasion.

Over 90% of Balinese are Hindu, so Indic holidays dominate the festival calendar. A basic tenet of the Balinese religion is that rituals and ceremonies maintain harmony between the two equally powerful forces of good and evil, and that the proper and harmonious behavior of the people brings the supernatural forces under control.

Balinese also believe that the island is owned by the supreme god Sanghyang Widhi and has been handed down to the people in a sacred trust In return, the people show their gratitude by tilling their lives with symbolic activities and worship. Time seems to be measured only by the days and weeks between festivals. Because of the heat, the Balinese stage the majority of ceremonies in the late afternoon or evening and they last until early morning.

The full moon is perhaps the most favorable time to view an event on Bali because of a heightened, magic feeling when a whole month’s devotion reaches it peak. The new moon or when there’s just a sliver of the moon, when the sky is almost completely dark, is also very spiritual. This is a lime of the spirits, ot renewal, for starting over.