Tuesday 18 September 2012

Ubud Village and Batur Volcano 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/pers
barong & Rangda


Second
stop at Visiting Ubud art villages, Ubud Market and Ubud Palace, visit gold and silver smith in Celuk Village, there are a lot of huge silver shop in this village. The woodcarving Village name is Mas Vilage 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. The Ubud 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
No entranec fee

ubud market

Third 
stop at rice terrcaces at Tegallalang Village, this rice terraces has beautifull view with coconut trees and beautifull small river valley. Tegallalang Village well known with the village of handicrafts centre specially for wholesale and export, a long of the road you will see a lot of the shops, they sell variety of painted woodcarving with colorfull designed. The painted woodcarving products the sell made from very light wood with reasonable price, they do sell theirs handicrafts for retail too.
Entrance fee cost at 5,000 rupiah per person
rice terrcaces at Tegallalang Village
Fourth 
stop at Batur Mount Volcano, this places located in Kintamani District - Bangli Regency. Penelokan Village will be the best to view of the Batur Mount and Batur Lake. Batur Mount has eruption several time already, the biggest eruption was 1926 destroyed the Batur Village, this village it was near the lake and now they move to the top. The black lava was the eruption in 1974. This is still active Volcano smoking all the time. There are many restaurant built surround the crater specially for lunch time. This tour the most famous trip for tourist who visit the island.
Entrance ticket cost at 11,000 rupiahs/person
Batur Mount Volcano,
Fifth
 stop at Bali Coffee Agrotourism, Bali Coffee Processing and farming, Bali Coffee Luwak (Chivet Cat Coffee), the place to see various of plantation such as coffee arabica, coffee robusta, pineapple, Balinese snake fruite (salak), plain Balinese potatoes, star fruit, cacao, jack fruit, durian tree and etc, experience to see how to make Balinese coffee, try the best of Balinese coffee or ginger tea with green view river valley. They sell variety of theirs original Balinese coffee products, herb oil and etc
No Entrance Fee
Bali Coffee Agrotourism
Sixth stop at Tirta Empul or Spring Water Temple, it's located in Tampaksiring region near Gunung Kawi Temple. The temple was built around the springs and special bathing-pools. In the inner courtyard there is clear slate-blue spring water bubbling up into it's own enclosed rectangular pool through a sedimentary layer of black sand. In Balinese legend this spring water was created by Indra God when he fighted with the Mayadenawa King. This place now very crowded with the people when the secret day for bath special ritual called in Balinese melukat.
Entrace fee at 15,000 rupiah/person
Tirta Empul or Spring Water
 Tour Cost
Price A : 1 - 4 person IDR 400,000 per car

Price B : 5 - 7 person IDR 450,000 per car