... I woke up due to the fact that the chandelier in our room suddenly became alive, beating some intricate rhythm. Households at that time were sweetly slept, so I did not even notice that something incomprehensible was going on. But I was born in Alma-Ata (there, too, stranded), the reason for the revived chandelier was, alas, is understandable.
Balinese believe that good spirits live in the mountains ...
The next day the Internet was familiar to read: yes, indeed, underground jackets were noted on Bali, but they did not imagine dangers. On the earthquake itself in Indonesia - the usual thing. Because this country is located in one of the most seismically active zones of the planet and enters the so-called Pacific Fire Ring. Seismologists annually record about six-seven thousand earthquakes with magnitude above four points (and what is lower - do not even honor their attention).
... so locals are not afraid to settle near volcanoes.
The local residents themselves have long come true with the fact that they are often shaking. They are generally a lot that happens around, perceive it is worth it. For example, they are not at all afraid of their volcanoes, but, on the contrary, they worship them all worship, believing that it is there that the spirits of ancestors are stored. Even when in 1963 on Mount Agung there was a powerful eruption of a volcano, which took the lives of about two thousand people, they did not cease to bow before the elements. And they explained: so nature responded to the fact that the religious ceremony sacred for all Balinese was conducted with violating the centuries of existing rules.
Some temples are carved right in the mountains.
So, despite the danger of volcanoes, the Balians are sacred ... Good spirits live at the top (that is, just in the mountains, on volcanoes), and evil - downstairs (read in the ocean). Therefore, you are unlikely to see someone from the local swimming in the sea. However, when we tried to make a couple of swims, they involuntarily agreed with Balians ...
Continued ...
Read the previous history of Olga here, and where it all starts - here.