GWK Festival Returns As Bali’s Biggest New Year Celebration For Tourists

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Bali’s biggest cultural park has shared updates about its New Year’s celebrations, and tourists on the island this festive season should snap up tickets soon.

The GWK Cultural Park is famous for hosting one of the most significant New Year’s Eve events in all of Indonesia. 

The management team at GWK Cultural Park has spoken to the media about upcoming New Year’s Eve celebrations, and it sounds like the festival will be bigger and better than ever. The team has also confirmed changes to the fireworks display setup that will ensure that the show can be enjoyed by all guests from every angle of the park.

The GWK Cultural Park Operations Director, Ch Rossie Andriani, told reporters, “One of the evaluations is moving the location of the firecracker explosions to behind the statue. Last year, it was done in front, and the smoke obscured the statue, making it invisible.” The show will feature 12,000 fireworks that will be part of a full five-minute display triggered when the clock strikes midnight. 

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GWK Cultural Park is also preparing for a surge in visitors over the festive season, not only on the New Year’s Eve event. The number of visitors on weekdays is typically around 3,500 people per day. During the Christmas and New Year period, this can increase to 6,000 to 8,000 people per day. GWK Cultural Park is hugely popular with both domestic and international tourists.

To help ease traffic congestion during the peak event, the park has reportedly scheduled coordination with the Bali Regional Police regarding security and traffic management in the GWK Cultural Park area. It is not only the traffic for the GWK Cultural Park event that has to be taken into consideration, but all the traffic traveling around the Bukit Peninsula, especially around the Uluwatu and Jimbaran area. 

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Andriani added, “We’ve handed over the traffic engineering to the Bali Regional Police. We’ve also received an invitation to a hearing to discuss the security measures that will be implemented, and the number is quite large.”

There will also be a free shuttle bus service available for event-goers, with registration for the service made via the QR-code GWK Instagram account. 

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With New Year’s Eve falling in the height of the rainy season, during the press conference, the GWK Cultural Team was naturally asked about contingency plans for bad weather.

The General Manager of Marketing Communication and Events at GWK Cultural Park, Andre R. Prawiradisastra, explained, “We can’t guarantee whether it will rain or not, but we’ve definitely prepared precautionary measures. Before the event, we all prayed together for a smooth event. We also had the assistance of a rain shaman as part of our efforts.”

GWK Cultural Park’s New Year’s Eve Party is famously one of the best nights of the year in Bali.

Visitors can ring in the new year in the company of the world’s 4th-largest statue, the Garuda Wisnu Kencana. Standing at 121 meters tall, the statue can be seen as far away as Canggu on a clear day. 

The GWK Cultural Park New Year’s Eve Party takes over the whole park and will include live performances from Whisnu Santika & MC Drwe, Maliq & D’Essentials, Lomba Ajaib, Lolot, Navicula, with Duo Giga as MCs.

Cultural elements are also presented throughout the night, including a fiery Kecak performance from 6 pm to midnight. 

Tickets for general visits to GWK Cultural Park are currently buy one, get one free. There is a series of deals for tickets for the New Year’s Eve party.

A package of four VIP tickets is currently only IDR 550,000. With the promotion only available until the 20th December, anyone keen to see Bali’s biggest fireworks display this New Year’s Eve had better snap up tickets as soon as possible; this event always sells out!