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| 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. The man of Tenganan traveled
east and found the corpse of the horse. When the King there after
offered to reward them, they requested the land where the horse
was found. All the area in which the carcass of the dead horse could
be smelt. The King sent an official with a keen sense of smell to
partition the land. For days, the chief of Tenganan led the official
through the hills, yet still the air was polluted with the odor
of dead horse. At last the official decided this was enough land
and departed. After he had left, the Bali Aga chief pulled from
his clothing a very smelly remnant of the horse’s flesh.
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.
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PURI
AGUNG KARANGASEM
Puri Agung Karangasem is a reminder of Karangasem’s period
as a kingdom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Only the
Puri Agung Karangasem has been restored and is open to visitors,
but you can wander around the other two. Outside Puri Agung Karangasem,
there’s an impressive three tiered entry gate and beautiful
sculptured panels. After you pass through the entry courtyard a
left turn takes you to the Bale London, so called because of the
British royal crest on the furniture. The main building is known
as Maskarman, after Amsterdam in the Netherlands, because it was
the Karangasem kingdom’s acquiescence to Dutch rule that allowed
it to hang on long after the demise of the other Balinese Kingdoms.
On the other side is the Bale Kambang that is surrounded by a pond.
The ornately decorated Bale Pemandesan, in between Maskerdam and
the pond, was used for royal tooth-filling and cremation ceremonies.
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| .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
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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.
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BUDA
KELING
A black smith home industry village which is located on the northwest
of Bebandem village. There are a few workshops line the road where
you can see how the black smiths are made.
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TIRTA
GANGGA
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.
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