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At the Hemis monastery Summer festival in Ladakh
The Hemis festival is dedicated to Lord Padmasambhava (Guru Rimpoche) venerated as the Dance Performance at Hemis Monastery representative reincarnate of Buddha. He is believed to have been born on the 10th day of the fifth month of the Monkey year as predicted by the Buddha Shakyamuni. It is also believed that his life mission was, and remains, to improve the spiritual condition of all living beings. And so on this day, which comes once in a cycle of 12 years, Hemis observes a major extravaganza in his memory. The observance of these sacred rituals is believed to give spiritual strength and good health. The Hemis festival takes place in the rectangular courtyard in front of the main door of the monastery. The space is wide and open save two raised square platforms, three feet high with a sacred pole in the center. A raised dias with a richly cushioned seat with a finely painted small Tibetan table is placed with the ceremonial items - cups full of holy water, uncooked rice, tormas made of dough and butter and incense sticks. A number of musicians play the traditional music with four pairs of cymbals, large-pan drums, small trumpets and large size wind instruments. Next to them, a small space is assigned for the lamas to sit. (Wikipedia)
I tried to shoot a few interesting pictures of smoke trails with a stick of incense. I'm not entirely happy with the results, I'll reshoot later.
Lessons learned:
- Using a snoot or flagging the flash is important to reduce a noisy background to pure black.
- Use a reflector to balance the light.
- Experiment more with colour gels.
- Use a flexible flash/lightstand instead of manual holding and pointing.
- Open a few windows.
- Incense burns up relatively fast, time is critical.
Loy Krathong is a Thai festival held on the full moon each November. Many people assemble near a river or lake and float ("loy") a small biodegradable raft ("krathong") on which there are elaborately folded banana leaves, flowers, candles, and incense sticks. Thai people believe that this honours and pays respect to the Goddess of Water. Here, the queen of the festival holds the krathong and will float it in the water.
Best viewed large on black. This photo was taken with a non-digital F601 camera.
Strobist info: ISO 100, F/8.0 at 1/200th sec. 2 580 EX's - one below incense sticks @1/4 power with green gel shooting straight up, one camera right positioned higher @1/4 power shooting across. Both speedlights were gobo'ed to keep light off black seamless background.
When smoke rises high enough, the bare speedlight dominates while the gelled strobe below adds subtle hints.
It has been yet another wet and cold Sunday afternoon here in England, so I had an hour to have a play with my camera.... This shot is pretty much SOOC using an 85mm f/1.8 lens with off camera flash and of course the obligatory incense stick.....
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The final uploads from the temple, an amazing pace, blended in with the massive new buildings all around, and yet here was peace.
Wednesday.
I awoke at eight the next morning with a wooly head, I had just woken from 13 hours sleep! I was supposed to have met Anni for breakfast some half an hour before, so I quickly dressed and went downstairs to find she had tried to call me on my mobile and on the internal phone in my room, neither of which had stirred me.
So, after breakfast we decided to head out into the city and see what we could see. I had read little of Tianjin before travelling, so it came as a surprise to learn that the centre of the city was a half hour taxi ride away.
And so we hurtled off back down the motorway dodging from lane to lane, passing trucks on either side. Once again we lived to tell the tale. Once in the city, we went down wide and busy streets, until the driver pulled off a 180 degree turn scattering scooter riders and pedestrians in all directions before dumping us at the kerb.
Before us was a Chinese arch, and beyond the historic street, which we hoped would be at least photogenic. In the end it turned out to be hundreds of tourist tat shops, but the people and the stuff they sold were interesting. We wandered around, trying to avoid eye contact as the owners tried to sell us something gaudy. On reflection, buying some gaudy tat would have been good I think. Instead we walked on.
We had also decided to try to find and ride the Tianjin Eye, a huge Ferris Wheel, we had seen it as we rode across a bridge, so we walked along the river hoping to find it. As we walked under a bridge festooned with lions, there about a mile away was the Eye.
So, we walked in the bright sunshine, with the sun beating down, past pleasure boats, but mostly locals fishing and smoking. They seemed to catch stuff, which shows that the river was clean.
The wheel is built in the central reservation of a main highway in the middle of the bridge that carries the road over the river. And an impressive piece of engineering it looks to. It was seven quid to ride, which seemed fine to us, despite there being many empty pods, we were encouraged to enter one already occupied by a young couple. Oh well.
From the top we spied a temple complex near the bottom of the eye, so once off the wheel we walked across a not very busy road, through a small indoor market and to the gates of the tmple. Hmmm, tickets would be needed, lets see if I could go to the kiosk and buy a couple.
Using the old tactic of holding two fingers up and handing over loads of cash, I managed to buy two cheap tickets and get change back too. So we went in.
I guess its surprising to find that the Chinese are so religious, after decades of communist rule, and yet there were hundreds there, praying, lighting incense sticks and doing lots of bowing to statues. We wandered around, taking shots, just enjoying being there.
It was mid-afternoon, and we were hot, could we find a place to rest and get a drink? Well, it took a while, in the end we found our way back to the old town, we bought a couple of bottles of water, but were still thirsty. We found a fast food place and managed to order two Cokes, despite the waitress claiming not to have heard of it, there was even a soda fountain behind here. So with pointing and talking slower and louder, she got it, and brought us two cups of Coke, and we were happy.
Next we had to find our way back to the hotel, so we tried to get a taxi to take us back. The first couple refused, but the third seemed to know they way, yet took us a different route, but got us back in roughly the same amount of time.
Time then for a cold beer before dinner.
Cheers
A temple employee hands out Incense sticks at the busy Xingtian temple in Taipei. The temple boasts of an inner courtyard where nuns read prayers and visitors make offering of fruits.
It is a new temple (built in the 1960s) but very beautiful.
In a "slum" community in Bangalore, India. Many of the families here rely on income from making incense sticks for their survival.
I've been wanting to try photographing smoke for a while. I finally bought some incense sticks and proceeded to smoke-up and stink-up my home office. Graham Jeffery has an excellent blog entry on how to photograph smoke. If you're interested, I'd head over there to see his photos and read about his technique. I'll post some comments on my blog when I get a chance. I colorized some of these images in Photoshop. Those that are more subtlety colored (about half of them) show the natural colors of the smoke itself (with some saturation added in a few cases).
All of my smoke images were created with two light sources. The first was natural light coming through an window on the left. I doubt the natural light contributed much (if anything), because my shutter speed was 1/250 and the f-stop was f/10. To the right of the smoke I placed a Canon Speedlite set to full power. Those setting pretty much nuked any ambient light. To prevent any light from spilling onto the background, and flaring into the lens, I attached a couple of 4" X 8" cardboard "gobos" to the sides of my flash (using Velcro). I wish now that I had taken a setup shot. Oh well, next time.
fisheye photo print painted with b & w acrylic using incense sticks & an old pencil.
35mm lomo fisheye.
Reel # 8
The final uploads from the temple, an amazing pace, blended in with the massive new buildings all around, and yet here was peace.
Wednesday.
I awoke at eight the next morning with a wooly head, I had just woken from 13 hours sleep! I was supposed to have met Anni for breakfast some half an hour before, so I quickly dressed and went downstairs to find she had tried to call me on my mobile and on the internal phone in my room, neither of which had stirred me.
So, after breakfast we decided to head out into the city and see what we could see. I had read little of Tianjin before travelling, so it came as a surprise to learn that the centre of the city was a half hour taxi ride away.
And so we hurtled off back down the motorway dodging from lane to lane, passing trucks on either side. Once again we lived to tell the tale. Once in the city, we went down wide and busy streets, until the driver pulled off a 180 degree turn scattering scooter riders and pedestrians in all directions before dumping us at the kerb.
Before us was a Chinese arch, and beyond the historic street, which we hoped would be at least photogenic. In the end it turned out to be hundreds of tourist tat shops, but the people and the stuff they sold were interesting. We wandered around, trying to avoid eye contact as the owners tried to sell us something gaudy. On reflection, buying some gaudy tat would have been good I think. Instead we walked on.
We had also decided to try to find and ride the Tianjin Eye, a huge Ferris Wheel, we had seen it as we rode across a bridge, so we walked along the river hoping to find it. As we walked under a bridge festooned with lions, there about a mile away was the Eye.
So, we walked in the bright sunshine, with the sun beating down, past pleasure boats, but mostly locals fishing and smoking. They seemed to catch stuff, which shows that the river was clean.
The wheel is built in the central reservation of a main highway in the middle of the bridge that carries the road over the river. And an impressive piece of engineering it looks to. It was seven quid to ride, which seemed fine to us, despite there being many empty pods, we were encouraged to enter one already occupied by a young couple. Oh well.
From the top we spied a temple complex near the bottom of the eye, so once off the wheel we walked across a not very busy road, through a small indoor market and to the gates of the tmple. Hmmm, tickets would be needed, lets see if I could go to the kiosk and buy a couple.
Using the old tactic of holding two fingers up and handing over loads of cash, I managed to buy two cheap tickets and get change back too. So we went in.
I guess its surprising to find that the Chinese are so religious, after decades of communist rule, and yet there were hundreds there, praying, lighting incense sticks and doing lots of bowing to statues. We wandered around, taking shots, just enjoying being there.
It was mid-afternoon, and we were hot, could we find a place to rest and get a drink? Well, it took a while, in the end we found our way back to the old town, we bought a couple of bottles of water, but were still thirsty. We found a fast food place and managed to order two Cokes, despite the waitress claiming not to have heard of it, there was even a soda fountain behind here. So with pointing and talking slower and louder, she got it, and brought us two cups of Coke, and we were happy.
Next we had to find our way back to the hotel, so we tried to get a taxi to take us back. The first couple refused, but the third seemed to know they way, yet took us a different route, but got us back in roughly the same amount of time.
Time then for a cold beer before dinner.
Cheers
People getting in line with bunch of burning incense sticks for their turn of praying in a pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Varanasi Ganga Aarti takes place every sunset at holy Dasaswamedh Ghat, near Kashi Vishwanath Temple. It's a highly choreographed ceremony. Although a spectacular must-see, some people consider it to be too much of an artificial and showy extravaganza to have a lot of meaning in a spiritual context,but indeed it showcases the charisma of Hinduism to the whole world.
The aarti is performed on a stage by a group of young pandits, all draped in saffron colored robes with their puja plates spread out before them. It commences with the blowing of a conch shell, and continues with the waving of incense sticks in elaborate patterns and circling of large flaming lamps that create a bright hue against the darkened sky. The movement of the lamps, held in the pandits' hands, is tightly synchronizing to the rhythmic chants of hymns and clang of cymbals. The heady scent of sandalwood thickly permeates the air.And you are lost in a magical spiritual world which you will cherish throughout your life.
Joss paper folded into 'gold bars', with incense sticks and a beverage as an offerings.
Kuan Tai is the Anglicized spelling of Guan Yu, an important general during the Three Kingdoms period in China, being now worshipped both in Taoism and Buddhism.
Learn more about at my travelog.
the chicken village also had a bunch of monks who maufactured incense sticks. this was a monky putting the wet incense goo on sticks. after that, they put the sticks out in the sun to dry.
Ganga Aarti
Gange aarti is performed daily in the evening by a group of priests at the Dashashwamedh ghat. Through the aarti, Agni Pooja is performed in which a commitment is made to the Lord Shiva, Mata Gange, Surya, Agni (Fire) as well as the whole universe made by the Lord Shiva.
It is performed by the brass lamps which accompanied with the mantra chant in the presence of the huge crowd.
All the priests wear same cloth, the dhoti and kurta which is tightly bind with a long towel. First they make preparation of the Gange aarti by making collection of the five elevated planks, a multi tiered oil lamp, an idol of the Goddess Ganga, flowers, incense sticks, a conch shell, a big and heavy brass lamp having a snake hood at the edge of the River Gange. A group of boats filled with devotees come around the place of aarti at the bank of River.
Varanasi.org.in
I've been wanting to try photographing smoke for a while. I finally bought some incense sticks and proceeded to smoke-up and stink-up my home office. Graham Jeffery has an excellent blog entry on how to photograph smoke. If you're interested, I'd head over there to see his photos and read about his technique. I'll post some comments on my blog when I get a chance. I colorized some of these images in Photoshop. Those that are more subtlety colored (about half of them) show the natural colors of the smoke itself (with some saturation added in a few cases).
All of my smoke images were created with two light sources. The first was natural light coming through an window on the left. I doubt the natural light contributed much (if anything), because my shutter speed was 1/250 and the f-stop was f/10. To the right of the smoke I placed a Canon Speedlite set to full power. Those setting pretty much nuked any ambient light. To prevent any light from spilling onto the background, and flaring into the lens, I attached a couple of 4" X 8" cardboard "gobos" to the sides of my flash (using Velcro). I wish now that I had taken a setup shot. Oh well, next time.
I tried to shoot a few interesting pictures of smoke trails with a stick of incense. I'm not entirely happy with the results, I'll reshoot later.
Lessons learned:
- Using a snoot or flagging the flash is important to reduce a noisy background to pure black.
- Use a reflector to balance the light.
- Experiment more with colour gels.
- Use a flexible flash/lightstand instead of manual holding and pointing.
- Open a few windows.
- Incense burns up relatively fast, time is critical.
Joss paper to be folded into boxes, with incense sticks and other offerings.
Kuan Tai is the Anglicized spelling of Guan Yu, an important general during the Three Kingdoms period in China, being now worshipped both in Taoism and Buddhism.
Learn more about at my travelog.
Die Gestaltung des Balinesischen Gartens folgt den auf Bali vorhandenen Vorbildern und soll den Besuchern Geist und symbolischen Inhalt balinesischer Kultur vermitteln. Im Gegensatz zur überwiegend muslimisch geprägten Bevölkerung Indonesiens haben die Balinesen ihre ganz eigene Kultur. Der auf Bali vorherrschende Hinduismus mischt sich mit alten Bräuchen und Sitten, dem Respekt vor der Natur und dem Streben der Balinesen nach Harmonie in allen Lebensbereichen zu einer einzigartigen Glaubens- und Kulturform. Ein Mensch sollte stets im Einklang mit sich selbst, mit seiner Umgebung - das heißt mit der Natur und den anderen Menschen - und mit dem gesamten Universum leben. Dieses dreigeteilte Harmonieprinzip findet sich im Balinesischen Garten immer wieder und ist auch Grundlage für den Namen des Gartens: "Garten der drei Harmonien - TRI HITA KARANA". Der Balinesische Garten ist ein Beispiel für die Anordnung einer Wohnanlage im südlichen Bali. (Quelle: Senatsverwaltung für Umwelt, Verkehr und Klimaschutz, gekürzt)
The Balinese Garden, which opened in 2003 as the Garden of the Three Harmonies or Tri Hita Karana, grew out of town twinning links forged between Berlin and Jakarta. Most of the structural elements in the garden, designed by Indonesian architects I Putu Edy Semara, were pre-fabricated in Bali and assembled in Berlin by Balinese craftsmen.
For the IGA Berlin 2017, this exotic garden was both revamped and rehoused in the new, 14m-high, energy-efficient Tropical Hall which has provided an additional 2000 square metres of tropical planting around the Balinese Garden.
The Balinese Garden reflects man’s struggle for harmony: harmony among people, with the environment and with the universe. A garden planted according to design criteria alone is unknown in traditional Bali, where tropical forest flora merges with the species cultivated by villagers: plants that are used for eating, as remedies or as religious offerings.
In the heart of the garden stands a compound typical of those to be found in southern Bali, surrounded by a wall of whitewashed brick. Visitors enter this private area through a gate called the angkul angkul. It is here that they see the first evidence of the ubiquitous trinity of the Balinese Garden of the Three Harmonies, for the gate comprises a base with steps (representing the foot), a teak door (the body) and a mighty capped roof (the head).
The family temple, or sanggah, inside the compound is enclosed within another wall. In Bali, offerings of flowers, fruit and incense sticks are placed on these high-plinthed shrines every day. The largest building in the compound is the all-purpose bale dangin, a roofed pavilion that serves a number of different functions. It is where offerings are prepared, where the family sleeps, weaves, sews and plays. The paved area in front of the bale dangin marks the centre of the compound and is a place of encounter and exchange.
Just behind the compound starts the ancient tropical forest which contains many species commonly found in Europe as houseplants or in botanical gardens. (Souce: Grün Berlin Group, abbreviated)
Ganga Aarti is a spectacular evening ceremony that takes place everyday at the Dashashwamedh Ghat in Varanasi (India) at the bank of the holy river Ganga. This ceremony is attended by thousands of visitors everyday and considered as one of the most colourful event of India.
A group of young priests dressed up with silky robes conduct this ceremony. The Aarti (puja offerings) starts with the chanting of hymns and prayers in the praise of the Holy River. After that, the priests perform different offerings in choreographed manner from their respective platforms which include - blowing of conch shells, burning of incense sticks and waving them in an elaborate synchronized manner in all the directions with their right hand, while ringing the ceremonial prayer bell with the left hand, circular waving of large multi-tiered oil lamps and a big brass camphor lamp, with a dramatic snake hood in clockwise directions, to and fro in a synchronized manner, and waving of the Peacock’s feather and Yak-tail fan in similar choreographed manner. The priests end the ceremony by pouring a bowl of water into the river. Upon which, the devotees let go of thousands of small oil lamps with flowers on a leaf to float on the river that would look like numerous stars on the water.
The whole ceremony is a spectacle of sound and colour and takes around 45 minutes. The devotional chanting, the pulsating sound of ceremonial bells, gongs and drums, the circular waving of large lamps, the heavy air from the burning incense, the floating floral lamps, all create a magical, enchanted atmosphere that makes for a dramatic sensory experience well worth experiencing.
Images of India
Hookah pipes represent an ancient, well preserved tradition. It mirrors the oriental tradition of social smoking and leisure. History reveals that Indians, Chinese, Babylonians used to smoke hookahs while burning the incense sticks as part of their religious rituals. Its mention can be found even in the shamanistic rituals. Yes, lots of things have changed since then. Visit www.pipesdaddy.com/Glass-Gandalf-Pipes-s/52.htm
Vom 13. April bis zum 15. Oktober 2017 findet die IGA 2017 auf dem erweiterten Gelände der Gärten der Welt in Berlin-Marzahn stattt.
Der Balinesische Garten in der Tropenhalle ist ein Beispiel für die Anordnung eines Wohnkomplexes im südlichen Bali. Eine Lehmziegelmauer grenzt die Wohnanlage von der Umgebung ab.
Der Haus- oder Familientempel („Sanggah“) innerhalb der Wohnanlage ist erneut durch eine Mauer abgegrenzt. Die Schreine auf den hohen Sockeln erhalten in Bali täglich neue Opfergaben aus Blumen, Früchten und Räucherstäbchen.
Das größte Gebäude der Wohnanlage ist ein Allzweckbau. Der „Bale Dangin“ genannte, überdachte Pavillon dient den unterschiedlichsten Beschäftigungen. Neben der Wohnanlage befinden sich in der Tropenhalle der IGA Reisterrassen.
The International Garden Show (IGA) 2017 is being held from 13 April to October 15, 2017, in the enlarged area of the "Gardens of the World" Park in the Berlin borough of Marzahn-Hellersdorf.
The Balinese Garden in the Tropical Glasshouse is an example of the design of a residential compound in South Bali. A clay brick wall separates the compound from the surrounding. The house or family temple "Sanggah") inside the compound is separated by another wall The shrines on high pedestals are redecorated daily in Bali with new offerings of flowers, fruit and incense sticks. The largest building on the compound, a pavilion called "Bale Dangin" serves multiple purposes. In the IGA Tropical Hall the residential compound is near the neighbouring rice terraces.
It is heavily overcast today, not the greatest weather for outdoor photography. So what to take for my Project 365?
For some reason or other, Pam had got a packet of incense sticks and the holder out of the cupboard. A decent subject and a bit of a challenge but how to make it interesting.
I placed the burning stick in front of my monitor (the only thing close to hand that was an even dark colour) and placed an angled light below, to the left and behind . Set the camera on my tripod and used Live View to focus manually on the hot tip of the stick.
Then I gently blew the smoke in the hope that it would form an interesting pattern. It took several shots to get something reasonable that I hope you will like.
Now I must go don my kaftan, find the patchouli oil and put on my love beads :-) Love and peace. .
Canon 5D Mk II with a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM lens.
smoke picture, taken with incense sticks, on my balcony. use flash and superdark background, open air and vast space works the best for it!
In the Hindu culture, it is a common practice to offer flowers and other paraphernalia to a God/Deity for blessings or appeasement. A variety of flowers, coconuts and incense sticks are commonly offered by devotees.
Pictured here is a row of women selling flowers and offerings to visitors outside the Mangeshi temple in Goa. On Sundays, the road leading to the temple is abuzz with devotees, visitors, mobile shops, food stalls, flower vendors and the occasional cow.
Best viewed: Large On Black
Jan 01, 2012.
Goa, India.
i know this isn't really like any of my photography, but i played with incense sticks yesterday and i ended up liking this picture a lot more than any others.
"Loy Krathong (or Loi Kratong, Thai ลอยกระทง) is a festival celebrated annually throughout Thailand. It is held on the full moon of the 12th month in the traditional Thai lunar calendar, in the western calendar this usually falls into November.
“Loi” means “to float”. “Krathong” is a raft about a handspan in diameter traditionally made from a section of banana tree trunk (although modern-day versions often use styrofoam), decorated with elaborately-folded banana leaves, flowers, candles, incense sticks etc. During the night of the full moon, many people will release a small raft like this on a river. Governmental offices, corporations and other organizations also build much bigger and more elaborate rafts, and these are often judged in contests. In addition, fireworks and beauty contests take place during the festival."
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I tried to shoot a few interesting pictures of smoke trails with a stick of incense. I'm not entirely happy with the results, I'll reshoot later.
Lessons learned:
- Using a snoot or flagging the flash is important to reduce a noisy background to pure black.
- Use a reflector to balance the light.
- Experiment more with colour gels.
- Use a flexible flash/lightstand instead of manual holding and pointing.
- Open a few windows.
- Incense burns up relatively fast, time is critical.
The final uploads from the temple, an amazing pace, blended in with the massive new buildings all around, and yet here was peace.
Wednesday.
I awoke at eight the next morning with a wooly head, I had just woken from 13 hours sleep! I was supposed to have met Anni for breakfast some half an hour before, so I quickly dressed and went downstairs to find she had tried to call me on my mobile and on the internal phone in my room, neither of which had stirred me.
So, after breakfast we decided to head out into the city and see what we could see. I had read little of Tianjin before travelling, so it came as a surprise to learn that the centre of the city was a half hour taxi ride away.
And so we hurtled off back down the motorway dodging from lane to lane, passing trucks on either side. Once again we lived to tell the tale. Once in the city, we went down wide and busy streets, until the driver pulled off a 180 degree turn scattering scooter riders and pedestrians in all directions before dumping us at the kerb.
Before us was a Chinese arch, and beyond the historic street, which we hoped would be at least photogenic. In the end it turned out to be hundreds of tourist tat shops, but the people and the stuff they sold were interesting. We wandered around, trying to avoid eye contact as the owners tried to sell us something gaudy. On reflection, buying some gaudy tat would have been good I think. Instead we walked on.
We had also decided to try to find and ride the Tianjin Eye, a huge Ferris Wheel, we had seen it as we rode across a bridge, so we walked along the river hoping to find it. As we walked under a bridge festooned with lions, there about a mile away was the Eye.
So, we walked in the bright sunshine, with the sun beating down, past pleasure boats, but mostly locals fishing and smoking. They seemed to catch stuff, which shows that the river was clean.
The wheel is built in the central reservation of a main highway in the middle of the bridge that carries the road over the river. And an impressive piece of engineering it looks to. It was seven quid to ride, which seemed fine to us, despite there being many empty pods, we were encouraged to enter one already occupied by a young couple. Oh well.
From the top we spied a temple complex near the bottom of the eye, so once off the wheel we walked across a not very busy road, through a small indoor market and to the gates of the tmple. Hmmm, tickets would be needed, lets see if I could go to the kiosk and buy a couple.
Using the old tactic of holding two fingers up and handing over loads of cash, I managed to buy two cheap tickets and get change back too. So we went in.
I guess its surprising to find that the Chinese are so religious, after decades of communist rule, and yet there were hundreds there, praying, lighting incense sticks and doing lots of bowing to statues. We wandered around, taking shots, just enjoying being there.
It was mid-afternoon, and we were hot, could we find a place to rest and get a drink? Well, it took a while, in the end we found our way back to the old town, we bought a couple of bottles of water, but were still thirsty. We found a fast food place and managed to order two Cokes, despite the waitress claiming not to have heard of it, there was even a soda fountain behind here. So with pointing and talking slower and louder, she got it, and brought us two cups of Coke, and we were happy.
Next we had to find our way back to the hotel, so we tried to get a taxi to take us back. The first couple refused, but the third seemed to know they way, yet took us a different route, but got us back in roughly the same amount of time.
Time then for a cold beer before dinner.
Cheers
This week's theme is "smoke" and I've found it fairly hard, to be honest! I could have photographed a no smoking sign or something fairly simple but I thought I should push myself. I soon found that using the smoke from candles which have been blown out wasn't enough to photo and it didn't last long enough to focus on etc. I've had to go out and buy some incense sticks and I'm now sitting with all the windows open until the smoke clears...
Die Gestaltung des Balinesischen Gartens folgt den auf Bali vorhandenen Vorbildern und soll den Besuchern Geist und symbolischen Inhalt balinesischer Kultur vermitteln. Im Gegensatz zur überwiegend muslimisch geprägten Bevölkerung Indonesiens haben die Balinesen ihre ganz eigene Kultur. Der auf Bali vorherrschende Hinduismus mischt sich mit alten Bräuchen und Sitten, dem Respekt vor der Natur und dem Streben der Balinesen nach Harmonie in allen Lebensbereichen zu einer einzigartigen Glaubens- und Kulturform. Ein Mensch sollte stets im Einklang mit sich selbst, mit seiner Umgebung - das heißt mit der Natur und den anderen Menschen - und mit dem gesamten Universum leben. Dieses dreigeteilte Harmonieprinzip findet sich im Balinesischen Garten immer wieder und ist auch Grundlage für den Namen des Gartens: "Garten der drei Harmonien - TRI HITA KARANA". Der Balinesische Garten ist ein Beispiel für die Anordnung einer Wohnanlage im südlichen Bali. (Quelle: Senatsverwaltung für Umwelt, Verkehr und Klimaschutz, gekürzt)
The Balinese Garden, which opened in 2003 as the Garden of the Three Harmonies or Tri Hita Karana, grew out of town twinning links forged between Berlin and Jakarta. Most of the structural elements in the garden, designed by Indonesian architects I Putu Edy Semara, were pre-fabricated in Bali and assembled in Berlin by Balinese craftsmen.
For the IGA Berlin 2017, this exotic garden was both revamped and rehoused in the new, 14m-high, energy-efficient Tropical Hall which has provided an additional 2000 square metres of tropical planting around the Balinese Garden.
The Balinese Garden reflects man’s struggle for harmony: harmony among people, with the environment and with the universe. A garden planted according to design criteria alone is unknown in traditional Bali, where tropical forest flora merges with the species cultivated by villagers: plants that are used for eating, as remedies or as religious offerings.
In the heart of the garden stands a compound typical of those to be found in southern Bali, surrounded by a wall of whitewashed brick. Visitors enter this private area through a gate called the angkul angkul. It is here that they see the first evidence of the ubiquitous trinity of the Balinese Garden of the Three Harmonies, for the gate comprises a base with steps (representing the foot), a teak door (the body) and a mighty capped roof (the head).
The family temple, or sanggah, inside the compound is enclosed within another wall. In Bali, offerings of flowers, fruit and incense sticks are placed on these high-plinthed shrines every day. The largest building in the compound is the all-purpose bale dangin, a roofed pavilion that serves a number of different functions. It is where offerings are prepared, where the family sleeps, weaves, sews and plays. The paved area in front of the bale dangin marks the centre of the compound and is a place of encounter and exchange.
Just behind the compound starts the ancient tropical forest which contains many species commonly found in Europe as houseplants or in botanical gardens. (Souce: Grün Berlin Group, abbreviated)