Ultimate NYEPI DAY Destination Bali 2024

Hey everyone, welcome back to the channel. We are Christy and Nikolas and today we are in Munduk, Bali, which is in the north of Bali. And today is actually the day before Nyepi, which is a national holiday, well a Balinese holiday celebrated here in Bali and basically Nyepi is a day of silence. So basically on Nyepi, nobody is allowed to leave their house, you can't turn the lights on, you're supposed to keep the curtains shut and basically just stay inside for an entire 24 hours. So we decided what better place than to come celebrate Nyepi up here in Munduk. So we just checked in at Nadia Homestay, which is in the center of Munduk and it's a cute little homestay, you have like a cabin style villa here and then we are staying right back in this one, which is super nice, super clean and look at this view, I mean what the heck. So we just left our place to find somewhere to eat and we wandered down this little alley in the center of Munduk and found this super cute little place called Aris Warung and so we are here now and the woman who owns it is in the kitchen cooking and here are her sons who are watching our YouTube videos right now because they saw us filming and found out we had a YouTube channel. So their menu has a ton of different local Indonesian dishes like rendang babi, kare ayam, nasi goreng, of course, which is what Nika ordered, and then gado-gado, which I ordered and that's my favorite, it's basically vegetables with peanut sauce and they have a dessert menu. Hello. The chef. Thank you. I give for you mom. Oh, thank you. Made Warung in Aris homestay is a local family-run restaurant and accommodation with the most generous and kind people. Mama Aris does all the cooking in the warung, preparing everything from scratch when you order and will serve you a delicious home-cooked Balinese meal. She also took us exploring around Munduk, showing us her coffee plantation in the hills. The Aris family invites you to come stay and eat with them on your next trip to Munduk. Pause this video to take down their contact info for bookings. We just got back to the homestay and the host here brought us over some traditional Balinese clothing so that we can go to the ceremony that starts at 5 p.m. tonight and Nika's just testing it out to see like how he wears everything. So this is for, this is the sarong, and what is the other, what is this one for? I think this is for the head. For the head? Yeah. Try. 41. 41? Baby, your shoes. Yeah, I put sandals. I feel like, okay. This is really, I'm serious. Look what the shoe is. Wow. Well, it turns out we were wrong and this does not go on the head, it goes here. Charong, charong. A belt of sorts. For the ceremony. Yeah, it's still Ogo Ogo. Ogo Ogo. This is one of the traditions for the celebrating of the New Year in Bali. But since the Covid, this is two, already three years since the Covid. People are so happy, so excited to see the Ogo Ogo again. And I hope this is for the beginner, for the starting, for the new world, the new normal. Ogo Ogo. We need to go and watch the end of the ceremony and it just started dumping rain. So now we're going to go with our new friend. Yes. And all the folks still waiting out the rain. We are here, enjoy the beer in the middle of the rain. Still raining. Well, we didn't see the end of the ceremony with the burning demons, but we met our friend Ketut. And we are hanging out here under this roof with Ketut. Yeah, just talking, chilling. Good times, huh? Hey, Dan! So today is Nyepi day, and basically the whole day we've been just lounging around. We took a little nap, and now we are having a snack. As you can see, we packed the fridge full of stuff, which actually most of it we've eaten right now. We have some hummus, we had some bread earlier, and some bintang and rosé. And some eggs, which we actually ended up boiling this morning in the hot water pot. We made hard-boiled eggs. And then also some fruits, avocado, and nuts. And our food supply is pretty much almost out. Right now, Niko is outside on the neighbor's porch. Well, actually, no one's here because we have the place to ourselves. But this one has a nice view, so he is eating the pineapple. Good pineapple? Oh, so good. Nice. Right as I bit into the pineapple, there was a dog somewhere over there behind that fence. It just made like the craziest growling noise. How is Nyepi is back here eating again, because right when he finished all of his fruit, the owner of the homestay came and brought some nasi goreng and also some fried spring rolls. But unfortunately, since I'm allergic to gluten, I can't eat it. So Niko gets to enjoy all of the food to himself. So good. Cheers. Cheers. So we're having a little wine cerveza happy hour right now. Because in about six hours, five and a half to be exact, actually at midnight, the town wakes up and everybody comes outside of their houses and grills in the street. And this is a tradition that is traditional to Munduk. We actually didn't know about this before we came, but we're super excited. Apparently, it's like a big party in the streets after to celebrate Nyepi. Well, currently it is 11.45 p.m. and we just woke up. We had every intention of going, but it is dumping rain. You can see this is literally like rain particles in the air. Good morning, guys. Today is the morning after Nyepi and last night, unfortunately, we fell asleep and we did not get to go into the town and experience the cooking in the street. Also, we're not really sure if it ever stopped raining, so it may not have even happened. Yeah, we did hear a lot of fireworks throughout the night, which was super cool. So people were definitely celebrating. But above all, Munduk was an amazing place to celebrate Nyepi because it's just so tranquilo. You're just surrounded by nature and also it's like a very traditional village. And so when we were at the parade on two days ago, we were pretty much like the only other tourists. We didn't see anyone else and everyone welcomed us with open arms. So definitely keep Munduk in mind next time you're in Bali for Nyepi. We will end the vlog here. Thank you guys so much for watching. Make sure if you haven't already, hit the subscribe button and like this video so you don't miss our upcoming Bali videos. We'll catch you later.