We landed a few days before the festival and got over our jet lag in the village of Ubud. As we woke the first morning and looked out over the field we saw our first Balinese kites flying over the rice field. These were plastic and bamboo and tied off to trees along the rice paddy. They were flying about 1000-1500 feet in the trade winds, flying on monofilament line. The next few days as we drove around, we would pass open rice fields and count the number of kites, 23, 24, 25, etc. that were flying. We marveled at the number of kite bones in the telephone wires.
We arrived in Sanur Bali on the appointed day, and completely by luck selected the very hotel that the majority of International folk were staying (Peter Lynn et al). Wandering around on the first day there, we had a small glimpse of our first traditional Balinese kite. We were walking along a main tourist street, and passed a small temple at which a Gamelon band was rehearsing. Hanging from the roof of the temple was a giant birdlike kite made of Bamboo and cotton cloth. It had the three dimensional head of a demon or dragon and was a Janggan kite, replete with double hummers.
We arrived in Sanur Bali on the appointed day, and completely by luck selected the very hotel that the majority of International folk were staying (Peter Lynn et al). Wandering around on the first day there, we had a small glimpse of our first traditional Balinese kite. We were walking along a main tourist street, and passed a small temple at which a Gamelon band was rehearsing. Hanging from the roof of the temple was a giant birdlike kite made of Bamboo and cotton cloth. It had the three dimensional head of a demon or dragon and was a Janggan kite, replete with double hummers.
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