Melasti in Sanur, Bali

Nyepi – The Balinese New Year Spent in Silence

When I started to write this story, it sounded like a tale. I imagined myself seated in front of you with my hardcover book, reading it out loud and showing you pictures of Balinese people in their beautiful clothes and the ogoh-ogoh, demon monsters made to exorcise the island of evil spirits on the eve of the Balinese New Year.

So here’s the story written as a tale but based on a true facts!