Kintamani-Besakih Tour

Barong

The Barong and Kris dance performance.
Batubulan is located in Gianyar regency and around 15 minutes from Sanur/Denpasar. This village is welknown as a place of Barong and Kris dance performance and stone carving center. The Barong dance star at 09.30 AM and finish at 10.30 AM (1 hour performance). The Barong play represent an eternal fighting between good and evil spirit. A Barong (a mythological animal) represent good spirit and Rangda (a mythological monster) represent the evil one. Balinese people also believe that the Barong is symbol of protector. There are many kinds face of barong but mostly are Barong Ket (lion face), Barong Macan (tiger face), Barong Bangkal (pig face) and Barong Landung (human face). The ticket cost for this performance at 50.000 rupiah/person.

Silver smith

Silver Smith Painting and Wood Carving
The gold and silver smith is at Celuk village, location is close to Batubulan village where the Barong dance performanced. There are a lot of hug silver shop in this village. The wood carving village name's Mas village and Kemenuh village, both village produce very good quality of wood carving made from very hard wood such as teak, mahogany, ebony, and hibiscus wood. all the wood imported from Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Borneo (Kalimantan). Painter village name's Batuan and Lod Tunduh village . The artist on this village created a lot of variety of painting even in modern or traditional style.Then you visit the traditional Balinese house compound.

Tirta Empul Temple

Tirta Empul Temple
Tirta Empul temple is located at Tampak Siring village. The location is a valey surrounded by higher landscape and on the west side of the temple is Tampak Siring Palace (Indonesian President's Palace). The name of Tirta Empul is on an epigraphy and at this moment stored at Sakenan temple at Manukaya village around 3 kms from Tirta Empul temple. Tirta Empul is come from two words those are; Tirta and Empul. Tirta its mean holy water and Empul its mean spurt. So Tirta Empul is mean the source of holy water spurting from the ground (earth). Then in 10th century the King Indrajayasinghawarmadewa arrange the source of holy water become a holy pond with the name Tirta Empul

Lake Batur

Kintamani Volcano
Kintamani is a mountain ring in Bali with very amazing of Batur mount and Batur lake view. Lake Batur surrounded by several old village suc as; Songan, Batur, Kedisan, Buahan and Trunyan village on the oposite side of the lake. Trunyan is welknown as an Unique Bali Aga. They have own culture and unique lifestyle different from Balinese generally. Batur lake is a biggest lake in Bali and as water source for Balinese. Total wide of the lake is 16 square kilometers and the deep around 65 meters. Mount Batur has erupted 24 times since 1800 and the biggest eruption was in 1917, more than 1000 people dead and destroy around 2500 temples. Mount Batur is 1717 high on the sea level.

Besakih

Besakih Temple
The temple located on the slope of Agung mountain about 1000 meters on the sea level. This is the first temple built in Bali or welknown as Mother temple. The temple was built by Hindu holy priest Danghyang Dwijwndra who did holy traveling from Java in 8th century. Besakih temple is become a big temple complex because has added and completely with some other temples by priest Danghyang Nirarta in 16th century. The Pentaran Agung Temple is a central temple from all of the temple complex there. Entrance ticket fee at 10.000 rupiah/person.

Kertagosa

Kertagosa
Hall of justice (Kertagosa) located in the center of Klungkung (Semarapura town) in front of Puputan Klungkung monument. Built in 1710 by I Dewa Agung Jambe the king of Klungkung. The ceiling of the hall completely coverred inside with fine Kamasan style painting with epic of life Balinese journey of the soul. The other building is Bale Kambang house (floating Hall). The ceiling also full with Kamasan painting. On the west side of the hall there is Semarajaya Museum collected the photos of the King and family in Balinese traditional dress. Entrance ticket fee at 6.000 rupiah/person.

Kecak dance

Kecak and Fire dance
Kecak Dance at Batubulan Village, A Kecak performance is very simple. The men's chorus chants the words Cak ke-cak ke-cak ke-cak ke-cak ke-cak, in rhythm, over and over again, For this reason they are called the Kecak or Cak dance. The Kecak dances consist of about fifty men wearing only a loin-cloth, the upper part of their bodies left bare. They form rows of circles, in teh middle of which is a coconut oil lamp. The Kecak dance is performed for dance-dramas and the story presented is take from the Ramayana epic. Ticket fee at 50,000 rupiahs/person

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