The arching bamboos poles, ornately decorated, that transform the streets of the island are back. It’s the Galungan and Kuningan season again. penjor are as …

Every 210 days the Balinese religious holidays of Galungan and Kuningan recur, pegged to the ‘pawukon’ calendar. There has been a lot of conjecture which …

  Ask a Balinese what a penjor is and he or she will either shrug or confidently give you an authoritative answer that is completely …

by Diana Darling It’s amazing what you can learn at the Amandari. In one of their in-house publications, we read this (excerpt) about penjor, the …

          by Diana Darling           “I hit a barong driving home from the supermarket.”   “Oh my …

by Catriona Mitchell It’s Galungan! And outside it’s almost as quiet at Nyepi (Balinese New Year’s Day, when the whole island shuts down): not the …