Friday 21 September 2012

Bali Birds Park and Ubud Village Tours

First stop will see the Barong and Keris Dance at Batubulan Village, the performance start at 9.30 am and finish at 10.30 am. The Barong play represent an enternal fight between good and evil spirit. A Barong (a mythological animal) represent good spirit and Rangda (a mythological monster) represent evil one. Balinese people also belived that the Barong is symbol of protector. Many kinds face of Barong, mostly is Barong cat, Barong Landung, Barong Macan (tiger face) Barong celeng (pig face).
The ticket cost at 100,000 rupiahs/person
barong dance


Second stop at Bali Birds Park and Bali Reptile Park located at stone carving village (Batubulan village). First opened in October 1995, the Park is the realization of a life-long dream and ambition. With more than 1.000 birds of over 250 different species housed within lush tropical gardens, the Park is renowned for its dedication to perfection and has already become one of Bali 's most visited destinations. Birds collection such as Green Peafowl (Pavo muticus), Asian Pied Hornbill (Antbracocerus albirostris), The Javan Kingfisher (Halyon cyanoventris), Bali Starling (Leucopsar rot). Entrance ticket cost to visit both places at US $23.50/person
bali bird park
Third stop at silver smith, woodcarving and painter village, the gold and silver smith is Celuk Village, located next to Bali Birds Park, there are a lot of huge silver shop in this village. The woodcarving Village name is Mas and Kemenuh Village, both village produce very good quality of woodcarving made from very hard wood such as teak, mahogany, ebony and hibiscus wood, those of wood import from another island Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi. Painter village name is Batuan or Lod Tunduh Village, the artist in this village created variety of painting.
Free entrance
sample produk in silver smith
Fourth stop at Ubud Market and Ubud Palace, the market has two different parts, traditional market located in the west of arts market, the traditional market sell daily food and open earlier. The arts market sell various of handicrafts, arts and textiles. Next to Ubud market is Ubud Palace where is the Royal Family live, in evening the outside yard use by the local group dance performance to held Legong Dance, Barong Dance, Ramayana Ballet and Mahabrata Ballet.
No Entrance cost
ubud market
Fifth stop at Elephant Cave (Goa Gajah), this cave built in 11 century by the king of Udayana. The name is came from the name of the small river nearby, it's name Lua Gajah (Female Elephant). In front of the cave built place for bathing with six figures (Sapta Gangga). Inside of temple there is places for meditation, west side is the statue of Sri Ganesh (the god of protector), east side is three Lingam, belived one with black cloth is for Wisnu Gods symbol of water, white cloth is for Siwa Gods symbol of the air and red cloth is Brahma Gods symbol of fire.
Entrance ticket at 15,000 rupiahs/person
goa gajah
Sixth stop at Monkey Forest Ubud, The monkeys within the Sacred Monkey Forest of Padangtegal are commonly called long-tailed macaques. Their scientific name is Macaca fascicuiaris. On Bali , there are Balinese long-tailed macaque troops (populations) that live in areas where they have little to no contact with humans and troops that come into contact with humans on a regular basis. In western part is Dalem Temple (temple dedicated to Siwa Gods), in eastern is the cemetery and Merajapati Temple dedicated to Goddes of Durga (wife of Siwa God). Entrance ticket at 20,000 rupiahs/person
monkey forest

Tour Cost
Price A : 1 - 2 person IDR 400,000 per car