KAMASAN

Kamasan is a traditional village where the Kamasan style of classical painting originated.

A number of artists have workshops and small showrooms with figures depicted in profile, like wayang kulit shadow puppets, also called “ wayang “ or “ Kamasan “,along the main street.

Sidemen was a base for Swiss ethnologist Urs Ramseyer, and is also a centre for traditional culture and arts, particularly songket, a cloth woven with threads of silver and gold.

It has a marvelous scenery and an attractive rural character.

kertagosa

Kerta Gosa used to be a place to solve problems concerning the security, prosperity and fertility of the region. It is said that this place was built in around 1700 AD, when I Dewa Agung Jambe governed the Klungkung Kingdom. During his time, every full moon, a meeting was conducted by the King of Klungkung as chief of the meeting and attended by the other Kings throughout Bali.

The Court of Justice is equipped with six chairs and one table. The chair with the symbol of lion was for the King as chief of Court of Justice, the chairs with the symbol of dragons were for priests as lawyers who accompanied the King in making decision, and the chairs with the symbol of cows were for the secretaries. The ceiling is decorated with a lot of paintings that describe about the afterlife punishments. The Bale Kambang “ Floating pavilion “ was for receiving the guests who wished to meet the King. The Museum collects a lot of remains of Klungkung Kingdom.

TENGANAN VILLAGE

Tenganan Pegeringsingan is one of the most conservative villages of the Bali Age “ original Balinese “. This is a walled village. Within the bastions, all living compounds are identical in plan and are arranged in rows on either side of the wide, stone-paved lines which run the length of the village.

The people of Tenganan claim to have come originally from Bedahulu. The legend of how they acquired the land dates from the 14th century. The mighty king Dalem Bedahulu lost his favorite horse and sent the villagers of his kingdom in all directions in search of it.

Tenganan is also well known for its Geringsing cloth or double ikat. Through an intricate process of weaving and dyeing, known only here, a single cloth takes five years to complete.

Tenganan has many interesting traditions such as ritual and art tradition especially Mekare-kare or Perang Pandan (the fight of Pandanus leaves) which takes place only once a year during a festival called Usaba Sambah, tradition of preserving and maintaining the environment, burial tradition, etc.

TAMAN UJUNG

Taman Ujung ( ujung water palace ) is composed mainly of water, garden and sculptures. It’s situated at the southern east of Amlapura city. This garden is known as “ palace on the water “ . It was built by the King of Karangasem called “ A.A Gde Djelantik “ in the year 1901. This garden was famous in the world because a lot of its photos are collected and publicized at Holland. This garden has been destroyed by the Agung’s eruption for several months, so that a lot of tourists were disappointed

Some government officers including a Dutch queen named Wilhelmina used to be received on this place by the King of Karangasem. Taman ujung was built in a fusion architecturally of Bali and Dutch. Ujung’s traditional open palace was accumulated on the green valley with backdrop of Bibis Mountain view, Lempuyang mountain in the north and Ujung beach in the south.

According to folklore that the Dirah pool was the first to be built and it was known as “ haunted place “ because at that time it was used by the King to examine a person having supernatural power or black magic power, if it was true, the power would lost in that pool. The project of this beautiful garden apparently had not finished yet in the era of A.A Djelantik, therefore it was continued by the next King “ A.A Bagus Djelantik in the year 1909. This garden was opened publicly as a recreational park and as a meditation place for the King.

Taman Ujung was destroyed by the explosion of mount Agung in the year 1963, and earthquake in 1976.

the eleven-tiered fountain


the ponds

Tirta gangga royal water gardens are composed mainly of water, gardens and sculptures. It is situated in the middle of rice fields around the natural springs of Raja, approximately 7 km. ( 5 miles ) north of Amlapura, the main town of east Bali, Indonesia.

Tirtagangga is a well known cultural object of Bali. It belongs to the royal family of Karangasem.

The area of the water gardens is about 1,2 ha, consisting of three levels of ground stretching from east to west. On the highest northern level there are the spring under the Banyan tree, the upper swimming pool and two decorative ponds, one of which contains four fountains reminiscent of Versailles.

The first thing one sees when entering the garden is the elegant eleven-tiered fountain which rises from the middle of the complex. This fountain together with the two large ponds form the middle level.

The larger lowest level, on the left side of the straight foot part running from the entrance to the west, is occupied by the big fish pond with a long Holy Water. The water from one of the natural springs of Tirtagangga has always been regarded as holy. It is used for religious ceremonies in the temples in the area until today.

Tirta means blessed water, Gangga comes from Gangges, the holy river in India. The holy water is required for ceremonies of the temples in the surrounding as far as Tirtagangga can be reached by foot.

At certain celebration days the people from the villages around will come in colorful processions with offerings, umbrellas, flags and other attributes. Led by their temple priest they hold ceremonies around the spring under the sounds of hymns and the music of the Beleganjur.

The springs have a huge output of pure water. The water is first led to a reservoir where it is divided in two parts. On third provides drinking water for the town Amlapura.

The remainder goes into the upper swimming pool through an underground pipe and through the mouth of stone raksasa ( demon ). The overflow of water goes into the lower swimming pool, the other ponds and finally to the rice fields.

the water spring

Yeh sanih is a small village in northern-east coastal line of Bali island, it has a quiet beach resort that has grown up around the fresh water spring.

Its has a big water spring coming out from the bottom of a swimming pool, and the spring is widely believed by locals to originate from lake Beratan.

KUBUTAMBAHAN

Pura Meduwe Karang at Kubutambahan, 11km east of Singaraja and 300m west of the junction with the Kintamani road. This temple is dedicated  to Batara Meduwe Karang ( the lord possessing the ground ), it's ensures divine protection for crops grown on dry land, such as coconuts, maize and ground nuts. It's built on spectacular scale, with well-maintained grounds and frangipani tree galore. The terraces at the front support 34

figures from the Ramayana story, and the centerpiece shows the giant kumbakarna in violent battle with hordes of monkeys from Sugriwa's army.
Inside, the central court is decorated with carvings of Balinese folk, including elderly people and mothers with babies and toddlers

SANGSIT

Pura Beji of Sangsit is unusual in an area where every other temple is built of grey volcanic paras.

Dedicated to Dewi Sri, the rice goddess, it's justly famous for the sheer exuberance of its carvings.

The Candi Bentar and the inner Paduraksa drip with animals, plants and monsters, and both courtyards are decorated with mask carvings.

GEDUNG KERTYA

Gedung Kertya library museum is the only library of lontar manuscripts in the world. These are ancient and sacred texts inscribed on specially prepared leaves from lontar palm. It contains over three thousand texts on religion, customs, philosophy, Folklore, Medicine, Astrology and black magic, written in Balinese, old Javanese and Indonesian.

The museum was established by L J J Caron, the resident Dutch in Bali and opened in1928 , the establishment of museum for scholar or literature interest visitors.

The museum is open from Monday- Thursday at 07:00-14:30, for Friday and Saturday open at 07:00-13:00. Most of the manuscripts are kept on metal and wooden boxes, Visitors can also see inscribed bronze flats from the 10 century which are amongst the oldest written records found in Bali.

the stupa


the gold Buddha

The monastery(Brahma Vihara Arama) was built in 1970 by locals financing by Indonesian and also aids of Thailand government, and its consecrated in 1972 . It has been damaged by earthquake in 1976 . The new stupa has been repaired and is decorated with splendidly colorful confection.

The temple complex enjoys a wonderful hillside setting such as brilliant orange tile roof stand over an entrance gate guarded by fine two naga, with bell tower in the corner of middle courtyard, Every steps up to the temple has Buddha wisdom also around the walls.

A lower temple with a gold Buddha is from Thailand as a centerpiece, carved stone plaques showing scene from Buddha's life on all the main temple, and colorful Buddhist to the left of the top temple. Further up you'll see the founder of the temple next to it is several big stupas , in this part is the most interesting of the monastery, and magnet for pilgrimages.

BANJAR HOT SPRING

The hot spring comes from hillside that flows down to fill the pool .

The pool consists of three pool compartments; eight nagas spouting water from their mouths into the smaller, hotter upper pool, then descends through another five nagas into the larger pool. The water has a light sulfur smell, silky, slimy, and soft and this place is really an absolute Spa healer.

pupuan's rice terrace

PUPUAN

Pupuan road climbs steeply up from the coast providing fine views back down to the sea.

The route runs through spice-growing country such as clove plantations, coffee plantations and many others.

A long the road we’ll drive through some of Bali’s most beautiful rice terraces.

tanah lot temple