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 …

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

The last day for the Penjor (bamboo ‘symbols’ of the cosmic dragon’s tail)  – which come down today – Buda Kliwon Pahang (Pegat Wakan) the end of the month of …

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 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 …