Bali is one of the
Bali province itself is an island called Bali and has other
small islands namely Nusa Penida, Nusa Ceningan, Nusa Lembongan, and Menjangan Island
Bali is famous for its cultural tourism, has grown since the
arrival of Dutch merchant ships led by Admiral Cornelius de Houtman in 1679 in
order to set sail in search of spices, when he got in Bali, it became obvious
there were no spices at all but many unique inhabitants with completely
different life style from those of any other islands they had ever seen.
Finally Houtman sailed back to his base-port of Batavia, in Java, with nothing
but a bundle of reports about a “new” island he had found, the island which was
called by its habitants : “Bali !” and from then on the name of Bali spread
rapidly throughout Europe, and the world.
Today, Bali, which is still called Bali ,
lives in the 21th century along with other parts of the world. Nearly three and
half century after it was “found” by Houtman its requirements probably are not
too much different from the needs of any other region but Bali today is not the
same as the Bali Houtman had seen three and half centuries ago. There have been
improvements made by the progress of modern technology for the comfort of Bali ’s guests. However, what so called changes have been
made are not more than an outward appearance, just gratifications to comfort
the guests’ outward life, while inwardly the culture of Bali itself is still
the Bali of centuries ago.
The ceremonies the people perform for their deities, and the
customs the people retain, or the traditions they protect among the fast stream
of technological developments, all are kept up as is the life style itself.
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