Matt Hryciw

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Matt Hryciw |Emma Boyle |David Taylor |Robert Jackman

Our writer experiences the Indonesian island during its Hindu New Year festival, when everything shuts down and the streets are off-limitsWe were checking in beneath the vast, open-air reception pavilion of Puri Wulandari - a resort clinging, much like the jungle, to the sides of Bali 's Ayung River gorge - when I heard it. "Shhh," I said to my partner Fabio, as the distant thrumming rose and fell, drifting over on the breeze across the jungle valley below. "Listen. You can hear that, right?