Day 4 Bali or Bust

what an amazing return to Bali after 10 years

Arrived in Bali and first night stayed in Sanur at the Sanur Beach Hotel. This is a large hotel on the beach.
It is great to be back in Bali again and enjoyed the warm balmy weather. People still very friendly and helpful and still lots of locals selling their wares. I met Rose and she was enjoying the beach and shopping.
Next morning we meet Hendra, our guide and nephew to Jero Sandhi, our Balinese Priest friend.
He is friendly and happy and ready to serve.
Our first stop was up at Ubud and we enjoyed a yummy lunch at "Indus" (highly recommended).
The mountain air was cooler and vegetation lush.
We continue over the mountain to our friend's house at Penyusuhan. The land is next to the "Temple of One' and has amazing energy. We call this "The sanctuary" because it is great to stay there and chill out after travelling. This is where to stay and really feel the energy of the island in a lovely bush setting with trees and a natural spring and pool to swim. this water is particularly healing and pure.
After enjoying our stay we met with jero Sandhi, our host..
He is very busy preparing for a ceremony at his new family temple in Singaraja but takes time out to speak with us and advise about the ceremony which we are invited too!
He also advises us to travel to the temples west from us at Pemuteran.
We start the next day and travel with Sumiani, Hendras Balinese wife up to Pemuteran.
Here we prepared for the 3 temple tour to amazing temples in the area and met many Balinese going to the temple to prayer. This was wonderful to go to the temples at sunset and prayer alongside the locals and give offerings. (photos coming!)
Now is the day after the temple visits and after staying at the Reef Villas with a friendly Australian host. I went out in the boats and had a wonderful snorkel in the clear warm waters with 2 girls from Canada. there is lots of coral and fish to see.
Today we are preparing for the big ceremony at Jero Sandhi's house tomorrow and the blessing of the temple there.
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stay tuned for more of Bali

Only 2 days to go for sacred Bali visit!
During my time there I will be visiting Sanur on south of island and then up to Ubud.
I remember that Ubud is a great place for local art with some amazing artisits residen to Bali along with many locals who create wonderful and varied art.
From Ubud we will be staying with Balinese friends on the northen part of the island next to the Temple of One, a very sacred place.
We will be also visiting special temples on the north west coast of Bali: Pura Pemuteran, Pura Pulaki & Pura Melanting. We plan to stay 1 night at Pemuteran and of course some dolphin swimming wherever!
I will keep you posted.

The Sacred Dragon Lines

I am off to Bali in 3 days after 10 years since my last visit.
Bali is an amazing and highly spiritual place with sacred temples and huge energy as the Sacred Dragon lines, both masculine and feminine cross in the high mountains of Agung Agung and Agung Batur

sacred Dragon lines of the planet (see Robert Coon)

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This energy drew me to Bali years ago and I went to connect with locals and eventually to take people to the sacred places as a Spiritual teacher and do ceremony there.
After 2 years I met a special family. Sandi is Balinese with his Australian wife, Sue.
At the time they had a restaurant in the Lovina area to the north in Bali.
We went there to visit Sandi who was to take us to the Temple of One near Singaraja
This is an amazing temple with 2 meteorites that was seen as a blue light by an American astronaught.
Sandi had left Bali and was living in Melbourne when he had a dream to go back to Bali as he was the Priest of this temple.
He went back with his family and became the Priest and this is when I met him.
After a few years he had another dream and this time it was about a big explosion and fire. He decided this was a sign to go back to Australia and I met them there in Newcastle only 1year ago.He opened a restaurant there called "The Banyan Tree" and the week they opened the bomb went off in Bali.
Both Sue and Sandi would like to return to Bali and Sandi is going back this week so I will have the priviledge of meeting him there and visitng the temples once more.
My lovelyy friend, Rose, will visit with me and it is her first Bali visit. She is very excited and so am I.