Monday 10 March, 2008
Oguh Oguh
Two nights before the wedding was the Ogu Ogu parade. That was when people built images of demons out of paper mache and then carried them from village to village. We avoided Kuta for the main parade, though the Ogu Ogus (pictured below) were of pretty high quality. The ide is to represent lots of bad demons and get them out of your system before Nyepi the next day. Nyepi is a day of silence.
The village Ogus were a bit funkier - note the mask in the baskground as the kids go crazy. 
We watched the parade by getting a taxi to drive us 3 km from our fairly remote hotel and then walking back. By the end it was dark
and we carried the sleepy 'darlings' - as Saul and A call their daughters and my nieces - on our shoulders. Cassia pronounced it the best night of her life. She wasn't far wrong.



Views from the Floor
Mark says:
This sounds like my kind of parade – I love the monsters, especially the long nails on the one at the top.
Oh, and I'm sure lots of Aussies in Kuta are well aquainted with the Bintang monster...
You look like you were having a very nice time, Sophie! Look forward to reading more about it, if it is anything like your stories from traveling in Sri Lanka. Safe home.
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