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BALI Calendar of Festivals & Events 2012

January New Year’s Day – January 1 st ,  the celebrations of the previous night continue into the day, although things become more sedate by midday February Chinese New Year – February 03 rd ,  is the longest and most important festivity in the Chinese Lunar Calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Ancient Chinese New Year is a reflection on how the people behaved and what they believed in the most. Celebrate this moment to explore the uniqueness of this festivity while staying with us. Valentine’s Day – February 14 th ,  Be married, be in honeymoon or simply celebrate this special moment with your loved one March Melasti  – precedes Nyepi and is the loud part of the two-day event, where well-dressed villagers offer flowers and fruit and holy men sacrifice pigs Nyepi – March 5 th ,  This holiday is the Balinese New Year called icaka New Year, the day of total silence throughout

freeDiving

Rule No 2 : - Being relaxed.   By relaxing in the water many people will add a third to their breath hold. This is all to do with keeping your heart beat slow and not using too much oxygen. When you are under water don't swim hard. Don't move fast. You would be good to move like slow motion. When you are trying to do an improved breath hold don't think of waves, currents, sharks or anything that gets you nervous, . Heart beat goes up... oxygen goes down. It is good to pull yourself along the bottom with your hands rather than finning. Arm muscles use less O2 than legs. 

Erupting underwater volcano off Spanish Coast

Volcanic activity in the sea off the Canary island of El Hierro is seen in this areal photo taken and released by the Canary Islands Government on Friday Nov. 4, 2011. The regional government of the Canary Islands on Saturday Nov. 5, 2011has ordered the evacuation of homes and road closures near the southern tip of El Hierro after two earth tremors and increased offshore volcanic activity caused a buildup of malodorous debris floating on the sea.Seismic activity began in the area on July 17 and residents have since been rocked by more than 10,000 tremors, while underwater fissures have released an almost continuous flow of sulfurous gases, smoke and hot objects.El Hierro has some 11,000 residents and was formed by volcanic activity. Volcanic activity in the sea off the Canary island of El Hierro is seen in this areal photo taken and released by the Canary Islands Government on Saturday Nov. 5, 2011. The regional government of the Canary Islands on Saturday Nov. 5, 2011has o

Arranged marriage starts from a fundamentally evil premise...

Its been months, a dark kind of fairy tale played itself out in a sumptuous royal palace that sits high above the world in the tiny, impoverished, cloud-dwelling state. Case 1 : Toronto newspaper reported that a young woman had leapt off an eleventh floor balcony to escape her knife-wielding father, who had stabbed her in the neck and who was intent on murdering her for having married her boyfriend instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage with her cousin. Although some human rights groups protest this kind of behaviour, many people simply shrug it off as "cultural differences" and choose to ignore the fact that women are routinely killed or ostracized to the point of starvation on the streets for refusing to be forced into marriages they don't want. What sets story apart is that this time the victims were in fact the parents, the ones who tried to force their son into a loveless political marriage. This has caught the attention of the world media, not