Lisa in National Geographic!
Posted by Lisa Niver Rajna on Sunday, November 25, 2012 · 5 Comments
Thank you to National Geographic for posting my article on the Royal Cremation in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia!
The article begins:
By Lisa Niver Rajna
To kick off our year-long trek through Southeast Asia, my husband and I spent two months exploring the Indonesian island of Bali with no set itinerary. While in the town of Ubud, home of the Balinese royal family, we saw that the Puri Agung Ubud were building a bade (cremation tower) and an enormous twenty-foot papier-mâché bull for a cremation ceremony for Prince Tjokorda Putra Dharma Yudha, so we decided to attend.
Johnny, a dive master and member of the local band, T-WRECK, told us we were lucky (b-ungtung in Balinese) to see such a large ceremony — or to see one at all. The last royal cremation occurred two years ago. Many of the locals we befriended in the diving meccas of Amed and Tulamben explained that they could not afford to attend but would have loved to join us on the big day.
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Lisa Niver Rajna, M.A. Ed. is an accomplished travel agent, blogger, speaker, science teacher and member of the Traveler’s Century Club, a unique travel club limited to travelers who have visited one hundred or more countries. Lisa Niver Rajna was recently on National Television as a science teacher on the show Career Day. She is a 2012 nominee for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching. She traveled across six continents with Club Med, Princess Cruises, Renaissance Cruises and Royal Caribbean International. Look for her underwater as a PADI divemaster, in the science lab, or on the road traveling to an exotic location. She writes for National Geographic, the Huffingon Post, Jewish Journal and Technorati. In 2008-2009, Lisa and George Rajna spent eleven months wandering Southeast Asia from Indonesia to Mongolia where they fell in love, got engaged, and now as a married couple are writing a book about their journey. On July 1, 2012, the couple left for Indonesia for another year sabbatical in Asia. Read about the first seven months in Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar and India on “Our Trip!”
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Hey Congratulations that’s great. Great article also, I can see why they printed it.
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Thanks so much! I appreciate your support! Lisa
Thanks for sharing your experiences with us. I enjoyed the youtube of the ceremonial Roya Cremation in Bali
Beth, Thanks for reading and commenting! Hope life in LA is ALL good! Lisa
That is a great achievement. Congrats for being part of the National Geographic! That is what most journalist dream and you’ve reach it. Keep up the great work. I’ve read your article about the cremation in Bali, Indonesia and it is really interesting. It is really worth reading. I’ll be sharing this to my friends.
Mike