Tourists Told To Avoid Bali On Day Of Silence

Denpasar (Antara Bali) - Foreign, local tourists and several other visitors are expected not to visit the Indonesian tourist resort island of Bali during the Hindu Day of Silence, which falls on March 28 this year.

"Tourists or other visitors who plan to holiday in Bali have been requested to move forward or delay their arrival by a day, because on that day (March 28) no means of transport will be operational," Jero Gede Suwena Putus Upades, chairman of Bali's High Council of Customary Villages (MUDP), declared here, Friday.

All modes of transport, namely by air, land and sea, will not operate for 24 hours beginning 6 a.m. Central Indonesian Standard Time (WITA) on March 28 until 6 a.m. WITA the next day.

The six Bali's seaports of Benoa in Denpasar, Celukan Bawang in Buleleng, Gilimanuk which connects Bali with Java, Padangbai which connects Bali with West Nusa Tenggara, Tanah Ampo in Karangasem and Nusa Penida in Kungkung, will all freeze their activities during the Hindu Day of Silence on March 28, 2017.

The international airport of Ngurah Rai will also be closed for all kinds of flights, domestic or international, during the Hindu Day of Silence on March 28, Putus Upades added. (WDY)