Bali Culture tour - BALI ARCHEOLOGICAL TOUR

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Places of interest and Attractions will be visited during this tour:

TIRTHA EMPUL:Tirta Empul Temple is built around the sacred spring at Tampak Siring. For more than a thousand years, Balinese worshipers have been drawn to Tirta Empul Temple whose sacred spring is said to have been created by Indra and to have curative power. The tradition continues almost unchanged at the temple today.Over 1000 years old, the temple and its two bathing places have been used by the people for good health and prosperity because of the spring water’s curative powers.

GUNUNG KAWI TEMPLE: Gunung Kawi Temple is a collection of ten candi, created to evoke the appearance of temple fronts and designed to provide residence for the souls of ancient kings. The candi are hewn into the valley walls on both sides of the Pekerisan River. The Gunung Kawi does have an interesting history. Inscriptions over each Candi approximate the date of construction to be in the 11th C. It is believed that each temple served as a memorial to a deified royalty principally because they are shaped like the burial towers, or Candi’s, found throughout Central Java.

PENATARAN SASIH TEMPLE: Penataran Sasih Temple is an old temple that is before spreading Hinduism to Bali. Sashi means “Moon” in an Indonesian language. “Moon of Pejeng” who is the god of the moon is supplied. “Moon of Pejeng” is a drum made from copper. There is a myth of “Moon of Pejeng” in this temple. “There were 13 moons in ancient Bali. One in that fell in the village when was, and it was caught to the coconut tree. Because the moon is bright day and night, the thief who was not able to work has been embarrassed. The thief thought that he turned off the light of the moon. And, he went up the coconut tree, and put piddle on the moon.

Yeh Pulu Temple: Yeh Pulu Temple is located at Bedulu village, Blahbatuh district, Gianyar regency. The Bedulu village is located between Ubud and Gianyar where the famous Elephant Cave or known as Goa Gajah, dating from the 11th century. On the other side of the village is located the Yeh Pulu Temple. 1 km (3/4 mi.) south of Bedulu is the source sanctuary of Yeh Pulu, with a relief 27 m (89 ft) long and up to 2 m (61/2 ft) high, believed to be one of the oldest on Bali, depicting scenes from everyday life on the island. Archaeologists are divided about the meaning and purpose of this relief: some of the scenes may depict Krishna or refer to legends about one of his numerous manifestations. The figures, which are life-size and fully rounded, probably date from the 14th or 15th century.

GOA GAJAH: Welcome to Goa Gajah or Elephant Cave which is located in west side of Bedulu countryside, Blah Batuh Sub district and Gianyar Regency. It is about 27 km from Denpasar town. This cave is built at crevasse edge from the federation of 2 rills that is called Pangkung River , where the irrigation is mixed with Petanu River flow. The federation area of two rivers is called Campuhan/Mixture. It owns the magical energy on the basis of Rwabineda Concept/two different matters on this basic concept hence Goa Gajah (Elephant Cave) is intentionally built among two rivers.

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Bali Culture tour – BALI ARCHEOLOGICAL TOUR