Bali is one of world's most famous island located between South East Asia and Australia, between Java to the west and Lombok to the east at at 8° south latitude and 115° longitude to be precise. Bali is one of Indonesia's province with the provincial capital Denpasar in the southern part of the island. Bali itself is the largest tourist destination in Indonesia and is renowned for its highly developed arts, including wood carvings, crafts, dances, stone sculptures, paintings, sterling silver jewelry and traditional music.

Bali has several times won most favorite destinations voted by readers of some of the most credible travel magazines in the world. It's just a proof of how popular Bali is, often touted as the last paradise on earth, or people need to visit Bali at least once before die.

The idea of balance is central to Balinese philosophy and way of life. Nature and man meet and complement each other orderly in a hymn of beauty addressed to Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa or God the Supreme. This is best visible in human landscapes. The villages are a study in order. If one walks across a village, every thirty meters or so, the eye will catch the same proud brick gate with the same lintel decoration. Hidden behind the same mud walls, there will be the same red tiles of the same family pavilions with, again thirty meters apart, the same thatched puppet houses: the family private shrine. Then, there will be a big tree, two slit logs hanging from its branches, with a couple of shrines under its shade and a nearby hall: the banjar (neighborhood) community hall. An atmosphere of calm, order and collective belonging prevails. But the agricultural landscape is no less tame. When one reaches the limits of the dry land area of the village, a green and shining expanse on the horizon meets the eye. Narrow grassy dikes seem to be spread out like an endless carpet. In between lie shimmering paddy fields, connected to other gleaming paddy fields and watercourses to other watercourses, down to a line of coconut trees, and the next village, In the middle of the rice field, next to what looks like a path road, the eye catches the low walls and thatched shrines of a temple, next to a clump of bushes and trees. This is the subak temple, the temple of the irrigation association.

The Hindu New Year, Nyepi, in Bali is celebrated in the spring by a day of silence. On this day everyone in Bali stays at home and tourists are encouraged to remain in their hotels. On the preceding day large, colorful sculptures of ogoh-ogoh or monsters are paraded and finally burned in the evening to drive away evil spirits. Other festivals throughout the year are specified by the Balinese own calendrical system.