First stop at Batubulan village to see the Barong and Kris Dance, a dance depicting an eternal fight between good and evil spirit. Barong is a large lion type creature played by two men representing of good spirit meanwhile Rangda which is with long fingernails and droopy breasts symbolizing the evil spirit. At the end of this story, a battle between good spirit, as a symbol of Barong and Rangda as a symbol of evil spirit. Nobody wins in this fight, finally dancer trance and stab himself with the hash but not until the wound.
Tohpati Village is located east side of Denpasar city, this village welknown for Batik Village. Most of the villager here making batik, process of making batik you can observe also here. There, batik making has evolved to become one of the greatest art forms of Asia. This ancient technique involves using a wajan similar in shape to a wok for melting wax, and a canting, a wooden-handled tool with a metal tip for applying wax to create the design. You can shop for your favorite paintings batik like clothes, sarung, pilow case, photo of batik painting.
This village is located strategically on the main road form the Denpasar to Gianyar Regency which is about 5 km from Denpasar Town. CELUK Village is the famous village in Bali as a tourist destination cause of the local residents is very proactive and full of innovation to the gold and silver crafting and owns the individuality and excellence in production of gold and silver crafting. Most of them are Balinese professional, artistic and skillful of design development related to the silver and gold crafting. They create many elegant designs, which are greatly influenced by local tradition.
One of villages in Bali fundamentally identified as an artistic countryside by focusing in artistic of wood carving. Mas village is located in Ubud sub district and Gianyar Regency, east part of Bali. It owns the typical style of wood carving art by placing forward the distinguish synergy the humanism and naturalism. The village’s popularity as an art village is famous in the national and world level which is not forgetting from the highness name of some maestros which has born and found the spirit (taksu) and soul. The result of wood carving art in this village owns the immeasurable and wide dimension like idol for the devoting (arca idol), representative dimension of everyday Balinese social society life (farmer, fisherman, worker, intellectual, merchant etc), the abstract dimension as existing of actor imagination which is listening carefully of reality, dynamics and life philosophy.
Private tour: only you and your companions, with an English-speaking driver; times can be adjusted to your plans. A single traveller pays 50 % more.