Places of interest will be visited during Ubud Tour

TEGALALANG RICE TERRACE
Tegalalang countryside is located about 5 km northern part of Ubud Village and own the magnificent view of rice terrace. It rice terrace is designed very beautiful with exquisite hollowing rice field and precisely located on the hill bank. In this place, you will see the Balinese farmer do their rice field in oblique area complete with its system irrigation. To view the step down, the beautiful valley with coconut trees ornament it.
UBUD MONKEY FOREST
Ubud Monkey Forest is a small tropical forest where you can see the group of monkeys live there. Based on the local resident believe that these monkeys are protecting the forest with all its content. There is a Hindu Temple existing in the corner of forest with full of the huge and high tropical trees. All monkeys in this place have tame and dwell this forest together in each group area. PAINTING MUSEUM
Painting Museum is modern museum collecting the ancient Painting consecution and modern from the famous artist. Ubud is a place where the world’s painter found their inspiration to create a painting. You will see some of the world masterpiece from the famous artists in this museum that completes your tour with wonderful experience. The museum is design with Balinese architecture with the natural nature ambience surround it.
PURI SAREN ( UBUD PALACE )
Puri Saren is an Ubud King Palace where it is used as a governance center in the empire era. You can see the beautiful houses building that are designed with Balinese traditional style and full of wood carving decorates it. The luxury Entrance Gate (Candi Bentar) and dressy ancient house building are decorated by the fertile tropical garden.

FREE TIME AT UBUD ART MARKET
Ubud Market is offering you multifarious of handicraft that you can bring home for souvenir. It market presents the variety of art work/handicraft like wood carving, bag, painting, clothes, idol and a lot of more. You will enjoy your shopping time in the beautiful place with full variety of Balinese art work. The friendly sellers who come from the local community are offering the selection of your need to bring home.
PURA BATUAN ( BATUAN TEMPLE )
Batuan Temple is a local Balinese Hindu temple looked after by the local resident of Batuan countryside. The temple is designed very beautiful with full of Balinese ornaments and the roof temple building is made from the fiber of chromatic black palm tree. It is strategically located beside of the main road from Denpasar to Ubud

Tour Itinerary
(Ubud Tour only)		Ubud Tour with Legong Dance
09:00	Pick up at the hotel	13:00	Pick up at hotel
10:00	Gold and Silver work	14:00	Gold and Silver work
10:30	Wood Carving Artwork	14:30	Wood Carving Artwork
11:30	Tegalalang Rice Terrace	15:30	Tegalalang Rice Terrace
12:00	Lunch	16:00	Monkey Forest
13:15	Monkey Forest	16:45	Neka Museum
14:00	Neka Museum	17:45	Ubud Market and Puri Saren
15:00	Ubud Market and Puri Saren	18:00	Dinner
17:00	Arrive at the hotel	19:30	Watching Balinese Dance
		22:00	Arrive at the hotel

OLD PRICE: US$ 43net/person – min of 2 people
Special Promotion Rate: US$ 38 net/person – min 2 people
Single Traveler: US$ 55 net/person
Prices are inclusive of:

• 21% government tax and service charge
• 1 x lunch
• Entrance fee at all tourist destinations
• Speaking guide (English, Japanese and other language is subject to availability)
• Private full air-conditioning car
• Insurance

Places of interest will be visited during Kintamani Tour

GOA GAJAH
Goa Gajah/Elephant Cave is an ancient omission in the form of a cave with the high value of art and history. Goa Gajah is one of tourist destinations in Bali that is visited by a lot of tourists every day. In this place, we will find other ancient omissions like ancient stone idol, douche, temple and others. It owns beautiful relief with a form of face turning around to the left side. We have to descend the doorstep to reach Goa Gajah because this place is located in the river valley.
TAMPAK SIRING/HOLY SPRING WATER TEMPLE
Tampak Siring or recognized also by the name of Tirta Empul is a temple with a big water source residing in the middle of it. The water is clear, clean and holy assumed by the local resident to cure some disease. In Tampak Siring, you will see a Palace of Indonesia State founded by first president. Its place is very beautiful and peaceful that is surrounded by hill. There are many water douche exist in this temple that are using by local people for bathing and purification purpose.
KINTAMANI/BATUR VOLCANO AND LAKE
Kintamani is a name of countryside located in the hill and the beautiful panorama surround it. We can see beautiful panorama from Kintamani to overview the active volcano of Batur Mount and wide Lake of Batur in a valley. It is situated in the plateau with cool weather surround it. When we stand up at Kintamani, we will be able to see the rural area which is close to the lake .

The Places of Interest will be visited on Besakih Temple Tour

KERTA GOSA
Kerta Gosa is an ancient building designed with Balinese architecture that is an open house as jurisdiction place where the king announce the legislation, jurisdiction, penalization etc. Kerta Gosa building is very beautiful encircled by the fishpond with tropical plantations to add the artistic value that makes this place is good places to be visited. In its building roof, it is covered by full of ancient puppets picture depicting human life in eternity and also reward accepted.
BUKIT JAMBUL
Bukit Jambul is come from the word of Bukit that is meaning of hill and Jambul that is meaning of crest. Bukit Jambul is a beautiful place a green hill and rice terrace under it. In this plateau, we will see the beautiful valley that is encircled by the fertile tropical tree with the rice terrace as main focus. From this place, we can see the beautiful view afar with the background of hill, tropical trees and ocean.

BESAKIH TEMPLE
Besakih Temple is located in Agung mountainside owns very huge area with beautiful and artistic of building temple. It is the biggest Hindu temple in Bali with full of religious ambience and decorated by Bali style ornaments from the doorstep temple, holy idol made from stone, gate building joining with others to boost high etc. It owns the breathtaking view and active daily Balinese Hindu with their religious activities.

Places of interest will be visited during Tanah Lot Sunset Tour

TAMAN AYUN TEMPLE
Taman Ayun Temple is a temple which is used as altar by Hindu people specially exists in Bali Island and it is one of the heritages from Mengwi Empire. It is encircled by big fishpond with huge temple area. The temple buildings are boosting high with high philosophy, story and religious. Inside of this temple area, there is a small fishpond encircles the main temple building. Other buildings in this temple area are reflecting to the empire power with each function.
ALAS KEDATON ( Monkey Forest )
Alas Kedaton is come from the word Alas mean forest and Kedaton. It is a small forest dwelt by a group of monkey and big bat hang-on the trees. The tropical trees are fertile growing in this forest that makes it an ideal habitat of monkeys and other animals. All monkeys living in this forest are chummy and tame with human being. There is a Hindu temple existing in the middle of forest and rice field are located outside of it.
TANAH LOT TEMPLE
Tanah Lot is a Balinese Hindu Temple on the rock and the seawater encircles it when the sea water is tide. It is looked to be adrift in on the ocean and owns the magnificent view of sunset in the late afternoon. There are several points to see this temple with all amazing view. At this temple, we can find other Hindu temples like that make it a holy place in Bali.

5. Denpasar City Tour

The Places of Interest will be visited on Denpasar City Tour

TRADITIONAL MARKET
At traditional market, you will find the transaction voice among buyer and merchant with multifarious merchandise according to the life need like daily kitchen need, appliance of Hindu ritual, fruits until the traditional clothes. In this market, you will find the unique thing from the local people especially the women when carrying the material or any items with extremely heavy, she put all of them on her head with a big basket.

JAGATNATA TEMPLE
Jagatnata Temple is the biggest Hindu temple in Denpasar town which many visited by Hindu people in Denpasar to pray in particular on full moon and black moon. This temple is designed very beautiful with full of religious and artistic ornaments. In the center of temple area, there is a high temple building encircled by the fertile tropical garden. From the temple building until the entrance gate, you will find the Balinese decoration with full of meaning.

BALI MUSEUM
Bali Museum is located just the next door of Jaganata Temple and in this museum you will find a lot of the ancient monument of prehistory owns very high artistic value. The collection are available in this museum provides different experience on your tour. If the museum is not opened on the day of your tour, we will offer the alternative to visit Bali Art Center to see the biggest open theater in Denpasar town.

BAJRA SANDHI MONUMENT
Bajra Sandhi Monument is a luxury monument standing up in the middle of Denpasar town. This monument is a symbol of Bali people struggle to fill the independence after the Dutch Colonial gone from this country. The target of this monument is immortalize the soul and spirit of Bali people struggle, dig, looking after, developing and also preserves the Balinese culture to be bequeathed to next generation.

The Places of Interest to visit on Bedugul Tour

BERATAN LAKE
Beratan Lake is a beautiful wide lake encircled by the cool temperature and blanketed by fog especially in the evening. The water is clear and calm with beautiful Mountain as backdrop view that make you will forbear staying there. There are plenty of traditional boats standby at the lakeside which is used by fisherman and found local people are fishing to add the beauty of this place.

ULUN DANU TEMPLE
Ulun Danu Temple is a famous temple located in the lakeside of Beratan and owns the beautiful panorama with Beratan Lake and mountain as a backdrop view. When the lake water is going up, this temple is looked like adrift above water because the water encircles it. It is situated in the cool area and mountain with breathtaking view and many tourist visits this place every day in particular on the day time.

FRUIT AND VEGETABLE TRADITIONAL MARKET
It is a traditional market to sell the fresh vegetable and fruit that is very famous and many visited by tourist especially by local tourist. It is one of the tourist destinations in Bali presenting unique local community activities by serving the variety of agricultural product like fresh vegetables, fruit, corn, peanut, union, tomato etc. This market is opened from 7:00 am and closed at 18:00.

TAMAN AYUN TEMPLE
Taman Ayun Temple is a big temple located in Mengwi District and Badung regency. It is one of the heritance from the empire of Mengwi with beautiful temple building and the big fishpond surrounds it. This Temple owns the building boosting high and joins with others with beautiful decoration and it is designed by Balinese architecture.

What is the tour about?

Places of interest will be visited on Uluwatu Tour

ULUWATU TEMPLE
Uluwatu Temple is one of Balinese Hindu Temple located in southern part of Bali right on the cliff bank with magnificent view of the Indian Ocean . It is very amazing that this temple is built on the narrow peninsula with crevasse under it. It own very beautiful view in particular of the sunset time. There are group of monkeys live around the temple that keep and protect the temple from the bed influence based on the local resident’s believes. Uluwatu Temple owns the history and culture heritage that is one of the value and feature that many visitors visit this place.

Places of interest will be visited during Karangasem Tour

GOA LAWAH/BAT CAVE
Goa Lawah is a shrine cave where thousands of bats have a nest inside of this cave. There is big temple used by Balinese Hindu as a place to worship to the god. This temple is one of the biggest temples in Bali and the location is strategically beside of main road from Denpasar to Candidasa. The blue ocean is just apposite of this temple with the black sand unfolding throughout the coastal.

TAMAN SUKASADA
Taman Sukasada is beautiful garden with fish pond surrounding the old building that is one of Karangasem Empire’s omissions which has the high artistic value and history. This area is generally used by all kings for resting because this place is fully designed with artistic value so that the king his family can found their relaxation, refresh and enjoyable. The old buildings are very beautiful and now it is one of the famous tourist destinations in Bali.
TIRTA GANGGA
Tirta Gangga is a beautiful garden with water fountain and fish pond surrounds this area. This garden is built by King of Karangasem for their relaxation with their family. Firstly, this garden is utilized by empire family for bathing place and now have been arranged natty and fascinate. There is big clean water source that is poured into a channel and go to the tower to make a water fountain . This water fountain is an icon of Tirta Gangga which is many visited by tourists.
TENGANAN VILLAGE
Tenganan Village is a traditional Balinese country side with unique cultures and social life from the local community. It is one of the ancient villages in Bali where its society life different from the other village exist in Bali Island. The societies of Tenganan Village strongly keep the unique activities and custom rule that is one of the fascinations for tourist to visit. The house building is kept originally including the model and function to support the rule of village.

Places of interest will be visited on Watukaru Tour

TAMAN AYUN TEMPLE
Taman Ayun Temple is a Balinese Hindu temple located in Mengwi district, west part of Denpasar Town. This temple is one of the Mengwi empire heritance with the big fish pond surround it so that the temple looked like adrift on the water. It is very beautiful with the unique temple building which most own the high building with the step up to eleven levels. There is big court yard in front of the temple and the temples it self are fully decorated by the Balinese decoration are featuring this place as a tourist destination in Bali.
JATILUWIH RICE TERRACE
Jatiluwih is a name of country side located in the plateau area with the mountain as a backdrop. It owns very beautiful panorama of rice terrace unfolding from the foot of mountain to the sea. The cool atmospheres surround the area of Jatiluwih with the good water irrigation that makes this countryside as ideal for agriculture development. All the local residents wrestle the activities as the farmer and make this place as a source of agriculture producer in particular of rice.

WATUKARU/BATUKARU TEMPLE
Watukaru Temple by some people called Batukaru Temple is one of the six biggest Hindu temples in Bali located in the middle of rain forest and under the mount Batukaru . It is situated in the peaceful area with fertile tropical trees and beautiful sound of the bird surrounds it. There is a big fish pond located on the right side of the main temple and water douches are just beside of it. It is beautiful temple consisted of many temple building with the cool atmosphere cover entire the temple are.
TABANAN HOT WATER
Tabanan Hot Water is an alternative tourist destination in west part of Bali. It supply hot water from the volcanic which is contain the brimstone and useful for people who have skin disease . It is located on the hill bank with the river valley under it. The hot water is accommodated in swimming pool consisted of small and big pool . The spa, restaurant and accommodations are also completing this place as a tourist place in Tabanan regency.

The Places of interest will be visited on Lovina Singaraja Tours

TAMBLINGAN LAKE
Tamblingan Lake is a beautiful lake located in the plateau area and close to Bendugul or Beratan Lake. It is strategically located beside of the main road from Denpasar to Singaraja. The lake own very beautiful panorama with the green hill surround it. It is situated in the plateau area with cool atmosphere, rain forest and fogs are daily covering the whole area. Tamblingan Lake is one of tourist sites in Singaraja Regency that will be visited on this tour.
GITGIT WATER FALL
Gitgit Water Fall is an amazing waterfall from height hill which is encircled by fertile rain forest plantation. This waterfall is situated in the jungle of forest, fresh atmosphere with beautiful panorama of rice terrace are presenting on the way to this waterfall. This waterfall produce the clear water with some time the local children play around and having bath. It is located in Gitgit countryside, Sukasada district and Singaraja regency. It is one of the famous places of interest in north part of Bali.
LOVINA BEACH
Lovina Beach is the famous tourist place in north part of Bali with the spectacular of dolphin watching tour on the calm seawater. It is situated in the costal side of Singaraja regency with black sand unfolding along the beach area. The sea water is very calm with coconut trees are planted throughout the beach. There are many hotels, restaurants and shops are available on this area that is supporting this area as a tourist destination in Bali.
HOT WATER BANJAR
Hot Water Banjar is one of tourist places in north of Bali with the original hot water from the mountain flows to the public bath place. It is designed with water douches in different place. There are 2 ponds with the warm water that make Hot Water Banjar as an ideal for having bath. The hot water source is coming from Mount Batukaru where the water is not many containing or felt the brimstone and mostly this places is many visited by local people.
BLIMBING RICE TERRACE
When returning from Lovina to Denpasar, we will stop at the famous countryside with breathtaking view of rice terrace. It is located in Blimbing countryside, Pupuan district and Tabanan regency, west part of Bali. You will see the beautiful rice terrace with the green rice field and mount Batukaru as a backdrop. It is situated in the plateau area with cool weather surround it and tropical plantations are also giving the captivate fascination.

What the Tour is about?

Bali West National Park Tour is a tour to visit places of interest in Negara Regency, west part of Bali Island and the potential nature of agriculture including the social life of community along the way. The beautiful of rice field a long side road is one of beautiful panorama that you can see while the black sandy beach are covering all you way due to the road is close to the beach. This is a long journey that will take about 100 km go the west where you can see some of tourist sites like Subak Museum, Soka Beach, Rambut Siwi Temple, Medewi Beach and Bali National Park.

Tour Service

Places of interest are visited on this tour

SUBAK MUSEUM
It is a museum collecting ancient agricultural equipment owned by Balinese at former epoch, which can give the picture how Balinese do its rice field with the simple agricultural equipment and also have very good irrigation system.
SOKA BEACH
Soka Beach is now growing as a tourist destination with the beautiful black sandy beach and magnificent view of sunset. Soka Beach has been a lot of visited by tourist especially local tourist during the holiday season. It offers the beautiful panorama of the Indian Ocean and the carpet of rice field with beautiful rice terrace make this place is suitable place to be visited.
RAMBUT SIWI TEMPLE
It is a unique temple located at the sea side having artistic value with high historical. This Temple is built at two places, one on the coastal base right on the black sand and another one is on the high bank.
BALI WEST NATIONAL PARK
It is a protected forest exists in Negara/Jembrana regency that is protecting flora and. In Bali National Park there are very scarce Starling and recognized by the name of Jalak Bali which is felt concerned about and it will be totally disappeared. If you are lucky you will see this bird with beautiful white fur.

Choice of Balinese Traditional Dance

LEGONG DANCE
Legong Dance is the beautiful dance accompanied by Gong Kebyar (Balinese gamelan) and it is played by Balinese girls with wriggle their hand, body and eyes. This dance is drawing about princesses of Rangkesari which has been known as a princess with beautiful face. During the Legong Dance, there are additional dances supporting this program like Baris Dance, Candrawasih Dance, Panyembrahma Dance and Manukrawa Dance. The Legong Dance is usually performed in the evening and nowadays in Bali this dance is combined with the dinner set in the certain restaurant. While having the delicious dinner you can see the beautiful dance which will be unforgettable experience.
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KECAK DANCE
Kecak Dance is one of Balinese Dance where the performance is usually taken from the story of Ramayana. This dance is accompanied by 200 until 300 people where most of them stand as gamelan instrument because all of the instrument sound is come from the mouth and the rest of them are become the dancer. The unique of Kecak Dance is no instrument tool to accompany the dance however it is only by mouth. The sounds of the mouth are hearing the constant noisy and have a good rhythm, compact and harmonious. This dance is usually held in the evening due to the lighting tool are used from the traditional light tool where it is surrounded by the dancers. The duration of the Kecak Dance is about 1 hour due to the story of Ramayana is very complex and long, It is only taken a part of the story where the precis story is perform generally in particular the fight of the evil and the good
PRICE: US$ 30 net/person minimum 2 people
Single Traveler: US$ 45 net/person
WHAT TO BRING: Camera, Mosquito repellent.

BARONG AND KERIS DANCE
Barong dance is an exciting dance drawing a giant lion played by two people and Barong it self is symbolizing of the good side. When the Barong dance is performed, it is always performed two side of the life influence ‘bad and good’. Rangda is symbolizing the bad which two of them are always apposite each other and Rangda it self is drawing as a woman with the hair raising face and she always want spread the bad influence to all people in the world, however Barong is always rescue the moment when Rangda do the bad thing. Barong Dance is accompanied by Gong Kebyar (the orchestra traditional Balinese instrument) which is played by a group of people. During the Barong dance performance, there is Keris Dance attraction also performed where ‘Keris (the wavy double bladed dagger) are used by the dancer to stick Rangda in order to kill the evil.

PRICE: US$ 30 net/person minimum 2 people
Single Traveler: US$ 45 net/person
WHAT TO BRING: Camera, Mosquito repellent, Hat, Sun glasses

Kecak

A Kecak dance being performed at Uluwatu, in Bali

A Kecak dance being perfomed at Kolese Kanisius, Jakarta

Kecak (pronounced: /‘ke.tʃak/, roughly “KEH-chahk”, alternate spellings: Ketjak and Ketjack), a form of Balinese music drama, originated in the 1930s and is performed primarily by men. Also known as the Ramayana Monkey Chant, the piece, performed by a circle of 100 or more performers wearing checked cloth around their waists, percussively chanting “cak” and throwing up their arms, depicts a battle from the Ramayana where the monkey-like Vanara helped Prince Rama fight the evil King Ravana. However, Kecak has roots in sanghyang, a trance-inducing exorcism dance.^[1]

Kecak was originally a trance ritual accompanied by male chorus. German painter and musician Walter Spies became deeply interested in the ritual while living in Bali in the 1930s and worked to recreate it into a drama, based on the Hindu Ramayana and including dance, intended to be presented to Western tourist audiences. This transformation is an example of what James Clifford describes as part of the “modern art-culture system”^[2] in which, “the West or the central power adopts, transforms, and consumes non-Western or peripheral cultural elements, while making ‘art’ which was once embedded in the culture as a while, into a separate entity.”^[3] Spies worked with Wayan Limbak and Limbak popularized the dance by traveling throughout the world with Balinese performance groups. These travels have helped to make the Kecak famous throughout the world.

Performer, choreographer, and scholar I Wayan Dibia cites a contrasting theory that the Balinese where already developing the form when Spies arrived on the island.^[4] For example, well-known dancer I Limbak had incorporated Baris movements into the cak leader role during the 1920s. “Spies liked this innovation,” and it suggested that Limbak, “devise a spectacle based on the Ramayana,” accompanied by cak chorus rather than gamelan, as would have been usual.^[1]

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In popular culture

Film

• Video of a kecak performance is prominently featured in Ron Fricke’s 1992 film Baraka.
• A kecak chant can be heard in Federico Fellini’s classic 1969 film Satyricon. It was probably sampled from David Lewiston’s 1969 LP of Balinese music entitled Golden Rain, released on the Nonesuch Explorer Series.
• Kecak chanting is incorporated into the soundtrack for the Japanese anmiated film Akira, which also uses the Indonesian gamelan prominently.
• A Kecak-style dance and chant can be seen in the fantasy portion of Tarsem Singh’s film The Fall (2006), in which the Balinese actors incorporated words to describe the map being drawn.
• The chant is heard during a scene in the Coen Brothers‘ film Blood Simple.
• A Kecak chant is shown for a few minutes close to the end of the erotic French drama Emmanuelle 2 (1975), when the main characters go to Bali.

Pop music

• A sample of Kecak chanting kicks off The Pop Group’s 1980 album For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
• Mike Patton performs a Kecak-like chant that is incorporated in the song “Goodbye Sober Day” on the 1999 Mr. Bungle album California. Patton had previously performed a similar passage of rhythmic chanting in the Faith No More song “Got That Feeling,” from their 1997 Album of the Year.
• A sort of Kecak chant can be heard in Jade Warrior’s Floating World side-B album, called simply “Monkey Chant”. It has been mixed including a Jimi Hendrix-like guitar solo (played by David Duhig).
• A song from the debut album by musical group Hercules and Love Affair has an intro in the style of Kecak chanting.

TV

• A Kecak chant is played during the closing credits of the Asian-influenced show Avatar: The Last Airbender.
• A Kecak dance is performed in a Season 2 episode of MTV’s Wildboyz, with Chris Pontius and Steve-O eagerly participating in the ritual during their stay in Indonesia. Here it is referred to as a “Sardono Kecak”.

Video game

• Kecak chanting forms the basis of the song “The Oracle” in the Super NES video game Secret of Mana.
• Kecak chanting is featured in the song “Kecak” in the Japanese music video game beatmania IIDX 11 – IIDX RED. Songwriter John Robinson got inspiration for this song from the kecak dance.
• Kecak is a mini-game in Capcom’s Breath of Fire IV video game for PlayStation. The player mimics the chants by timing button presses corresponding to the screen.

Bibliography

• Kecak from Bali. Produced by David Lewiston, 1990. One compact disc (duration 44:53) with notes and libretto by Fred B. Eiseman and David Lewiston. 9019. As of 1991 this was the only commercial release outside Bali which features only and a complete performance of kecak^[5].
• I Wayan Dibia, Kecak: the vocal chant of Bali. Denpasar: Hartanto Art Books, 1996. vi + 83pp. Tables, photos, index. ISBN 979 95045 4 6. “This little book covers all the elements of Kecak”^[4]