Balinese temple in Brusel

Surprise for us, we never know that there are a Balinese temple in Brusel.

It is located in Park Paradiso. 40 minutes drive from Brusel. We heard the news while we visited the Indonesian embasy, and the news was told by our ambasador. It just had the purifying ceremony last week, and the Indonesian tourism minister, Mr. Jero Wacik was also there.

After finished with our agenda to the Indonesia embasy, our host took us to the Park Paradiso. We canceled our agenda of city tour in Brusel; because we already did it days ago.

Park Paradiso is a family park. They have a zoo area, picnic area, and other fun area for family day. Maybe it is similar with Taman Mini in Indonesia. The Balinese temple located in the midle of the park. It just opened for public a week ago. The design and style is looks the same like we have in Bali. They brought some material from Indonesia. They also have model of rice terrace in front of the temple, they put banana and palm tree in the temple garden. And play a gamelan music from the speaker. It was really feel like we already in Bali.

Some of us would like to pray in that temple, but the priest was not there.

And it was not only the Balinese temple, but also some cultural arts and traditions of Indonesia was also there. They have model of some typical traditional houses of Indonesia like Toraja and Java. Statue of Komodo, carving art work from Kalimantan and Papua and some old photos about situation in Bali in 1930. Everything is located in one area of the Park. And many people came that time to see and feel the atmosfer of Bali and also Indonesia.