Nusa Penida Festival

 
The opening of the first Nusa Penida festival showcased the islands diverse cultural heritage through local cuisine and traditional dress, dance and parade. Tables were decorated and showcased the many different types of cuisine on the island with each village offering free food samples, which we happily tried. The women of the villages were dressed in traditional dress and were eager to pile steaming handfuls of rice and spicy sambol into our mouths and place a seaweed mocktail in our hand. We were warmly welcomed and photographed as we were among a small amount of tourists there, most people we spoke to were visiting from nearby islands or mainland Bali. A range of other activities are scheduled throughout the festival that runs through to June 11, find out more here.