TENGANAN VILLAGE

Just 7 km from candidasa is tenganan, a Bali aga village ( the original Bali ). This pleasant, tranquil place is worth a visit and the people are welcoming and good-natured. For decades visitors have been attracted to this ‘living museum’, many of them drawn by the geringsing ( double ikat ), cloth woven by the women of tenganan. After you have paid a small donation, you enter this village whitch is 500 meter long and 250 meter wide and surrounded by natural walls with only three gates. A walk through tenganan is very interesting; you can see how the people live, some temples, and some typical local architecture. He inhabitants of this village live according to their ancient traditions and ceremonies. They continue to practice traditional arts like making baskets and lontar leaf books or calenders. In this villagers buffalos walk freely around and are igrored by the villagers.