See what I mean All soft and cosy like. Then, suddenly Kerput Finish The harsh beam of neon glares down on your eve move - and every self-respecting spirit packs it in and shoo through to a rival hotel.

Gunung Kawi is a temple only to be reached by clambering down 300 odd steps. It is said to be a rock temple of considerable antiquity. It may be all of that and something more. Any temple that is prepared to go through life, century after century, lurking at the bottom of 300 steps can manage without my patronage. Tampaksiring, a short way further up the road, is more my style. At last count it had six steps. At the Festival of Kuningan, it is the custom for all Bal.

THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SULAWESI DANCING. From the point of view of social structure, Indonesian dances have generally undergone the same course of development. In the period of Primitive Society dances in the whole of Indonesia were simple in form, sacred or holy and magic in nature.

Like the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese dances, described above, sumatran dancing too has developed in the course of time, accordance with the development of the society supporting it. Based on the social structure of Indonesian in general and the social structure of Sumatran in particular, the development or history of Sumatran dancing can also be divided into three periods, the primitive period, the feudal period and the modern period.

Like Javanese dancing, Sundanese dancing has also passed through tile following periods of development explained in previous chapters, viz. In the Period of Primitive Society the development of dancing throughout Indonesia was the same. Dances in West Java were still magical and sacred and in accordance with the primitive social structure of the time, they must have been very primitive too. This kingdom however did not develop as rapid.