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Lonely Planet | Travel Blog: Full Moon at Ubud s Royal Palace

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Full Moon at Ubud s Royal Palace

Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 10:29 PM by Lonely Planet In its four years, the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival has established a tradition of evening soirees in some of Bali s most inspiring venues. This year, opening night coincided with the full moon, so on Wednesday the Balinese dressed accordingly. For men, ceremonial garb is a white, short-sleeve coat and udeng, a cloth headband. For women, it s a lace kebaya, a multicoloured sarong, with a pedestal plate of fruit on the head for offering at the temple. flight booking

To accentuate their shape, women wear corsets, and to accentuate their modern fashion sense, high-heeled sandals. Just as they captivated Bali s early foreign chroniclers during the 1930s, lines of identically dressed, shapely females swayed under their loads, perhaps more precariously now than during barefoot times. travel agent

Tradition with a modern twist fits the festival s first public events, starting with the opening gala, held around dusk in the courtyard of Ubud s royal palace. Ubud s traditional royalty still serve ceremonial functions, and the orange brick palace with its traditional tapered gate posts and intricately carved doors remains the village s centrepiece. Indonesia s tourism minister spoke, but Balinese dance combining traditional forms, including fire and kecak chanting stole the show. hotel chicago

Saraswati Temple, dedicated to the goddess of knowledge and arts, was the setting for The Centhini Story launch. The Javanese epic Serat Centhini is a cross between Homer s Odyssey and the Kama Sutra, an ancient text, most of the originals lost, written in a Javanese script few people can still read. The Centhini Story (Marshall Cavendish) is its first English translation. online booking

The old story was reborn in the moonlight, through a Balinese-style dance by choreographer Nyoman Sura, readings in French-accented English by the project s godmother Elizabeth Inandiak, and hip-hop with Kill the DJ rapping in the original Javanese. travel health insurance

- Muhammad Cohen is at this year s Ubud Writers and Readers Festival where he will launch his novel Hong Kong On Air.

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An amalgamation of East and West in literature, and attire too! Ubud Writers Readers Festival also introduced Asia Pacific New Writing Partnership to encourage literary contributions from Australia and Pacific Islands. This will be a paradise for book lovers. london hotel booking

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Ongoing protests in Myanmar

Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007, 1:42 AM by Lonely Planet You could say the debate started in 1962; some would say 1988, others 1990. But the official travel boycott - called for by Aung San Suu Kyi, came in 1996. Travellers since have questioned whether they should visit Myanmar, coming up with a host of reasons why and why not. Currently the debate is back in the spotlight as protesters take to the street and international media coverage experiences a groundswell. orlando hotel

This week protests in Rangoon have been building with monks and inured citizens congregating at the cities Shwedagon Pagoda in defiance of the ruling military junta. The suspiciously self-titled State Peace and Development Council took power (then as the State Law and Order Restoration Council) in a 1962 coup and have since failed to instil democratic processes. booking agency

Although Aung San Suu Kyi s National League for Democracy officially won government in a 1990 election - power was never handed over. A result of 1988 protests, Aung San Suu Kyi was put under house arrest. Those protests ended in thousands killed, and although the climate may be different today - with the media s attention on the country unlike ever before, it cannot be guaranteed this latest round won t deteriorate in the same way. international travel medical

Travellers in Myanmar or those deciding to travel there should make sure they take caution and read widely on the matter. Check news websites and the Thorn Tree Myanmar branch for more information. new york hotel

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so do you reckon if democracy is installed (which I m all for, btw), people on thorn tree will complain about how much authentic travel in myanmar was back in the junta days travel medical insurance

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yet despite this and Aung San Suu Kyi s plea to Lonely Planet they still sell the guide and encourage travel here. Traveling to Burma/Myanmar only legitimates and funds the militia governement. It is not possible to travel ethically in this country under this regime. Have a consciense and don t go. I think travelskerricks blog is probably correct. miami hotel

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Disclaimer first: I ve never read On the Road , so feel free to ignore this. I d say it s pretty hard these days to come up with a rebellion that doesn t get mainstreamed and commodified before you can blink. I d also say that travel as a form of rebellion is pretty much dead - companies like Lonely Planet love to market travel as a way of proving your independence and otherness from the mainstream, but travel has really become just another status symbol, something you can purchase to give you more cred. Buy a big screen TV, buy a trip to Kazakhstan; they re both just ways of improving your standing with whatever niche you consider yourself part of (and proving it by showing you reject the trappings of whatever niches you don t consider yourself part of). booking delta com

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I joked in Once While Travelling about the hotel wildlife I ve encountered over the years the rats, mice and cockroaches which shoestring travel in the developing world sometimes bring you face to face with. The very sophisticated Banyan Tree Phuket provided much classier wildlife. As Maureen opened the door to our lagoon villa something fell from above the entrance, landed on her shoulder, fell to the floor and slithered rapidly into the room s garden. When I arrived back a few minutes behind her the metre-long, electric-green snake had taken up temporary residence in a tree before disappearing over the wall. We tentatively identified it in a Thai wildlife guide as a pit viper, dangerous and venomous. online hotel booking

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So what sort of human guests stay in pricey Thai resorts If you can gauge visitor numbers from the books they leave behind, which find their way into the hotel library, then Germans and Japanese (about 150 books for each language) are the most numerous visitors. English speakers came in 3rd with about 80 books while Dutch, Norwegian, Italian and French titles trailed behind with 20 to 40 books each. But number 4 with about 50 books was a surprise: Russian. travel insurance

Doc Mai Island Scuba Diving I spent a day scuba diving, it was the first time I ve ever been diving in Thailand and a very pleasant surprise. The visibility was good and currents almost nil so it was very easy diving. And great value since we did three dives the sheer walls of Doc Mai Island, the wreck of the King Cruiser ferry and the (unfortunately) shark-free pinnacles of Shark Point. All three were superb dives with lots or coral at two of the dives and prolific fish life at all three including lots of beautiful scorpion fish and a surprising number of my favourites, the anemone fish with their anemones homes. paris hotel

One of the divemasters was out on a dive trip when the tsunami hit Phuket on 26 December 2004. The water turned from blue to green and divers in the water at the time found themselves yo-yoing up and down uncontrollably, he reported. We got everybody back on board safely, but then we started to get radio and phone messages from Phuket instructing us not to come back to port. We were eventually allowed to land around 9 pm, by that time we d been out for over 13 hours. airline booking

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7. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I m not sure about the former. Albert Einstein 8. We don t go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go! Marlon Brando (in The Wild One) 9. I haven t been everywhere, but it s on my list. Susan Sontag Captain James Cook 10. I had ambition not only to go farther than anyone had been before, but as far as it was possible for man to go. Captain James Cook bangkok hotel

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Profile September 29, 2005 My Profile Tony Wheeler

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A A - Travel Blogs May 12, 2007 Travel Blogs Tony Caddy at Mel s Drive-In, San Francisco

These days everybody s doing one, but I reckon I did one of the first travel blogs. Back in 1994 the Wheeler family travelled from San Francisco to Boston in a 1959 Cadillac big tails fins, a cigarette lighter for every seat and no brakes to speak of. We did that eastbound trip on a southerly route, few months later we came back and did the trip westbound sticking further to the north. And we did a blog ... air asia ticket booking

Here s a list of my travel blogs on this site: October 2007 - Georgia (the ex-Soviet one) August 2007 - Mongolia - travels with Chinggis Khaan July 2007 - Tanzania Kilimanjaro May-June 2007 - Blogging the USA May 2007 - Australia - Kakadu - Crocodiles, Birds, Rock Art May 2007 - Australia - Ningaloo Reef - Swimming with the Whale Sharks los angeles travel

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Afghanistan May 31, 2006 Back to Afghanistan

I ve been back on the hippy trail, revisiting those places Maureen and I travelled through on the very first Lonely Planet trip. Except no way did I plan to go to Kandahar in the south of Afghanistan, I stuck strictly to the safer regions. But this time I did get to Bamiyan, even if the bloody Taliban demolished the Buddhas. atlantic city hotel

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I m kicking around Europe s last forgotten corner. Communism finally collapsed in this tiny country a couple of years after it had fallen apart in the rest of Europe. Enver Hoxha, the long term ruler of Europe s last outpost of Stalinism and then Maoism, had died in the mid-80s, but somehow Albania remained isolated and forgotten until, finally, the angry mob pulled Hoxha s statue over in the main square of the capital, Tirana in 1992... indian railway online ticket

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