Ubud Arts Market and Ubud Palace

the Ubud arts market and Ubud palace located exactly in central Ubud. There are various of handicrafts, arts and other souvenirs with reasonable price. the Ubud Palace is just on the oposite of the market. Every evening usually performed traditional Balinese dance in this place such as Legong dance, Barong dance, Ramayana and Mahabharata ballet.

Wood Carving and Painting

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.

Wood carvig

Water Pond

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.

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. After here the trip continued to Bali coffee plantation and procession.

Lake Batur

Tegalalang terraciring

This village is famous with beatiful rice terraces and handicraft center. The rice terraces has beautiful view with coconut trees and small beautiful valey. Tegalalang village is welknown with the village of handicrafts center specially for wholesale and export. Along of the road you will see a lot of shop, They sell variety painted wood carving product made from very light wood with reasonable price. they do sell their handicrafts for retail too. No entrance fee cost.