Today is Nyepi Day – the Balinese New Years and day of silence. The Balinese have their procession the night before to awaken the bad and evil spirits so they walk around banging drums and making a noise. The next day ( today) everyone has to stay inside so that the evil spirits can exit the village/town/city. Even tourists are forbidden to leave the hotel premises. Balinese people are forbidden to do any activity on this day so they cannot cook, use electricity, watch tv or even talk. They cut the tv reception over the whole of Bali so even tourists in hotels can’t watch tv. The airport even closes for the day.
It rained most of the day anyway and luckily we had gone to the grocery store the day before and we had a kitchenette in our apartment so we could cook our own food. We also have a DVD player in the apartment so we bought DVDs the day before. They don’t do dvd rentals over here – you just buy a cheap copy of the dvd you want. We had 2 out of the 7 that didn’t work but the rest were ok.
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