In Reply to: Bali on my mind, for July posted by nyc_to_bali on Monday, 1. November 2004 at 10:43 Bali Time:
Went to some buffalo races this year early july, there only on one or two weekends of the year from memory..down the west coast past Medewi beach near Negra on some farm land.
It's basically a local only affair went with a Bemo load of friends and we were the only westerners there amongst a few thousand locals.
Forgot I was in Bali as they spent as much time watching me as they did the race and not many could speak english,I heard a thousand hey mister and halo good afternoon but they couldn't say much more than that.
They even had a kids form of gambling kind of like the adults version you see sometimes at cockfights..with the whee/dices and the grid you lay your money on but you layed your money on animals,there was even a kangaroo,who didn't come through for me at all...but I did provide great entertainment for them,atracted quite a crowd I think they thought I was going to be throwing down some big Rrp but I just wanted to get rid of all those annoying coins.
Oh the Buffalo race...it's Okay,I get board by any race though,I must warn you though the Buffalo do end up a bit messy at the end of the day from the constant whipping along,but apart from that it was a great hot dusty day great atmosphere real local snacks ect.