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Tourists visiting Bali around June and July can consider themselves lucky. The provincial government of Bali holds a a month-long cultural expo. Pesta Kesenian Bali, or Bali Arts Festival, is a grand event celebrating Balinese culture. It’s a much-anticipated event held every year at Denpasar. Its main mission is to preserve Balinese cultural values as well as to promote them. Either for tourists as well as for young generations. There will be parades, musical shows, dance performances, and many more sub-activities.

The other exciting festival in June is Mekare-Kare, famously known as Perang Pandan. It is an offering ceremony that is for paying tribute to Indra or God of war and the ancestors of the Tenganan village. The residents will gather in the middle of the village, drink palm wine, and the pandan war begins which is marked by rubbing thorny pandanus on the opponent’s body.