In Reply to: September posted by Skin on Sunday, 22. February 2009 at 19:00 Bali Time:
Hi skin, we holidayed in Bali 20 September 2009 and encountered the Ramadan celebrations and influx of Javanese for the celebrations. The roads were amazingly busy and the hotels were unbelievably full - A lot were double booked. Apart from the increase in traffic the only other thing we noticed was that a lot of the Tailors were either closed or unable to make garments until after the holiday period was over as a lot of the machinists are Muslim and the Banks were closed over the main part of Ramadan also - money changers were open but the exchange rate was reduced during this time. Ramadan was 1/9/08 to 30/9/08 and I have been told it is in August next year. I have just checked on computer and it says Ramadan runs from 21/08/09 to 19/9/09 with Eid al Fitri being sunset 19/9/09 to 20/9/09 so you will probably encounter the holidaymakers. I am returning to Bali Sat 19/9/09 so figure it will take forever to get from Airport to Hotel due to this. Have a great trip, Maxy