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...Panama, the Cuna Indians recite from memory a 20-hour epic. In Umbria, Italy, when the funeral procession begins, the corpse leaves the house by the "dead man's door," a special exit never used for other purposes. In Bali, as in Burma, some of the floats and effigies paraded to the burning ground are so huge that 75 men are required to carry them. In Rumania, at the funeral of a girl of marriageable age, a young man volunteers to be her bridegroom, and he walks with her to the grave as if to the altar...
...visible in the statuary, paintings and bas-reliefs of a thousand temples, in the ceremonial dancers who weave their intricate and flowing patterns in palace courtyards, in shops and streets and paddies, or bathing with modest nudity in roadside canals. Most famed are the tawny bare beauties of Bali and the tiny, remote girls of Solo in Indonesia. For those who wish to pursue the investigation more intimately, Manila has an infinitude of dance halls and brothels. Tokyo provides beautiful girls in endless, well-displayed quantity from the nude chorus line at Nichigeki Music Hall to brassy burlesque shows complete...
...Moon Lake and hot sulphur baths at Peitou. Indonesia offers rewards for visitors fortified by optimism and durability. Accommodations are poor and government officials often both inept and insolent, but there are wonderful drives from the seedy capital of Djakarta through jungle-clad hills to cool Bandung and Bogor. Bali has two good hotels and is always lively with festivals, cockfights, legong dances and gala cremations. Burma is not much like Kipling's description of it, but Mandalay, Pagan and Rangoon have thousands of superb Buddhist monasteries and gold-domed temples alive with tinkling silver bells. With newer...
With that, the man who describes himself as "the voice of the Indonesian people" got set to leave his troubled capital once more, this time for a sojourn at the government guest house at Tampaksiring in Bali. It was not just another holiday, said Sukarno; he was also "going for the settlement of some important work...
Hibiscus Ear. The tour went on through stifling, overcrowded Java, and then to Bali, where the debate between the two leaders degenerated to badinage. Sukarno needled Khrushchev by saying that he could not take a swim in the sea because "you're too corpulent-the sharks will get you." But not even critical Nikita could long stay censorious in lovely Bali. Soon he was wearing a lavender hibiscus over his right ear and casting an appreciative eye on lissome Balinese girls who showered him with rose petals...