Thursday, December 2
Canang (pronounced Chanang)
When we first arrived in Bali, I saw little baskets of flowers everywhere – at shrines, on sidewalks, on the beach.
They are very much a part of Balinese life and culture. The canang is a sacred offering, and today we were taught how to make our own by two lovely Balinese women.
The basket is made by weaving coconut fronds and stitching them together with bamboo needles. Then flowers petals are added.
This is Miss Sharon, the beautiful club manager, making an offering to Parvoti in front of the massage prep area.
Miss Sharon comes from London, and her mother is from a remote Indonesian island. Twelve thousand of the seventeen thousand Indonesian islands are inhabited.
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