Nyepi goes off without incident in Bali

The Day of Silence is over and from my perspective it seemed like the island was completely dead yesterday. My mental picture of Nyepi in a Balinese village is one of family members gathered in their small house, sitting on the floor, quietly contemplating the
meaning of the day.

In previous year however Nyepi has been a time to unleash pent up feelings. Last year in Denpasar, part of a neighborhood attacked the other part because it wanted to secede. The Jakarta Post reports that this wasn’t the only time this kind of thing has happened.