Happy holidays and from all of us here at Floating Leaf Eco Retreat, we wish you the very best and a healthy and happy new year.
Today’s Bali Photo of the day comes from a recent wellness retreat. As a special farewell dinner we took our retreat participants to a sunset seafood feast on Jimbaron beach. As hard as we work to provide unique custom cultural experiences to our retreat participants, somethings you can not always plan for. As much as we would like to take the credit, we had no idea that when we arrived at the beach a huge ceremony and festival was underway. Perhaps a thousand Balinese, donned their finest temple gear, and gathered for both a Balinese Hindu ceremony, followed by an Environmental Awareness Festival. Many local villages (Banjar) worked hard to create floats that exhibited Eco-Responsibility. The craftsmanship of the floats was stunning and some even had actual waterfalls.
Many environmental themes were well represented such as effective and responsible water use, recycling, eating healthy and organic, litter awareness, composting and many other green initiatives.
Bands started to play, the sun was going down, people in elaborate costumes, food vendors filling the air with sweet smells, it was a wonderful evening and our wellness retreat participants received a resplendent send-off and one more fond memory before heading home.
Our Wellness Retreat participants took part in a beach ceremony during their farewell dinner on Jimbaron Beach, Bali
