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Bali Adventure Tours Elephant Park Taro announces the opening of the luxurious 25-room Elephant Safari Park Lodge and Wedding Pavilion. They also launched the children’s book Tale of the First White Elephant in Bali on 19 January 2008, as well as the DVD release of acclaimed documentary Operation Jumbo. Come, and play with 27 exotic Sumatran elephants!
Contact: 721 480.

Westin Resort Nusa Dua Bali offers the Special Chinese New Year Package. It includes complimentary access to the Westin Kids Club and discounts on food/beverage and spa treatment. 4 nights stay includes airport transfer and a chance to win the lucky draw ( 3 nights stay at the Westin Kuala Lumpur!).
Contact: 771 906.

Secret Garden by L’Ayurveda is an oasis in the midst of modern havoc. Come to this spiritual garden for meditation and put into effect your action for a better world and an enlightened society. Let’s realize the dream of “One Earth, One Sky, One Humankind”.
Contact: 847 7490

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Bali Activities

There are many choice of different activities are available in bali, means that there is indeed something for everyone. whether you want to throw yourself from high altitudes, hurtle down frothing rapids, explore the wonders of deep or just lie back and take it easy, bali has perfected the art of keeping its guest happy.

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February Weather, For those going in Feb

in February the weather is great if a little humid.  even though it is rainy season, it is still warm, but there is a chance that it will rain all day on some days, on others it may only rain a little, on others it might not rain at all. but it is still warm and mostly only rain at night leaving everything fresh for the morning.

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Flights show Aussies are back on Bali bandwagon

By Mex Cooper

MORE Aussies are taking overseas holidays as cut-price international airfares threaten Geelong’s local tourism market.

Short-term international departures rose more than 13 per cent in 2007, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Figures released this week showed the number of international jet-setters leaving Australia’s shores rose from 374,900 in November 2006 to 429,900 at the same time last year, with most away for between one and two weeks.
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January - March 2008 temple anniversary festival.

If you’re vacationing in bali I highly recommend that you go out of your way to experience a Temple Festival. A Traditional Balinese Temple Festival is something you won’t soon forget, and there’s a very good chance you’ll be the only foreigner in attendance… just make sure you wear your best temple-dress, or you probably won’t be allowed in. and for women make sure you are not in menstruation.

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Nyepi Day, Bali Hindu New year

Westerners open the New Year in revelry, however, in contrast, the Balinese open their New Year in silence. This is called Nyepi Day, the Balinese day of Silence, which falls on the day following the dark moon of the spring equinox, and opens a new year of the Saka Hindu era which began in 78 A.D.

Nyepi is a day to make and keep the balance of nature. It is based on the story of when King Kaniska I of India was chosen in 78 A.D. The King was famous for his wisdom and tolerance for the Hinduism and Buddhism societies. In that age, Aji Saka did Dharma Yatra (the missionary tour to promote and spread Hinduism) to Indonesia and introduce the Saka year.

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