 Odalan, Balinese Festival
Odalan are Balinese festivals celebrated as the feast day or anniversary day of Balinese temples. As each temple has a different day for odalan, there is almost always a celebration happening somewhere in Bali every day of the year.
The Balinese follows their own 210-day calendar, so a temple may be celebrating its feast day twice per calendar year.
During the odalan, you can see a parade of female devotees carrying trays of offerings called gebogan. This comprises fruits, flowers and rice cakes on a banana trunk frame. The devotees, dressed in their best outfits, wear a ceremonial waist sash and flowers. |
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