Half Day Tours

Half Day Tours

PACKAGE #1. Half Day tour

Barong & Ubud Village Tour

Barong and Keris dance is one of dance who tell between goodness and wickedness. Barong is mythology creatures which have goodness, and Rangda is wickedness. It will Perform in Batubulan village. This place has been famous in Indonesia and all over the world which has been built based on an artistic blessing dance of Barong (Barong and Keris dance).Then we continue to Ubud. Ubud Village is a traditional village supervising 13 Banjar (group of community) and 6 custom countryside. It is located in Ubud sub district, Gianyar Regency and about 20 km from Denpasar Town. Ubud Vilage can be reached within 30 minutes or 15 minutes from Gianyar Town and this place is situated in the high land about 300 meter above sea level. Ubud is surrounded by the good temperature compare with other regions in Bali where the temperatures are relative cool that is ideally for everyone to stay in this beautiful place. This village is occupied 9.800 peoples which most of them are Hindu. They able to keep the environment naturally so that way this place usually used by many tourist/people/actors to get the art inspiration.

Start Time: 08:30 am        Return time : 01.00 pm

 

Price :  US $ 30 per car

Included in the tour: Car, Driver and Petrol

Not included in the tour: Entrance fee

ITINERARY :

1. Batubulan village to see Barong & Keris dance                             Book now

2. Celuk, house of silver maker. 

3. Mas village  to see the traditional Balinese wood carving.
4. Ubud, a village where you can see monkey forest and the art traditional market in Bali.

PACKAGE #2. Half Day tour

TANAH LOT - Sunset Tour

Tanah Lot Sunset Tour is an exciting tour to visit the temple on the rock with breathtaking view of sunset view as a backdrop. The tour will explore the famous tourist destinations in Bali of Tanah Lot Temple that is located above a big stone in coastal periphery. The tour also visits other places of interest in Tabanan regency or west part of Bali .

Meeting Point: Hotel

Included in the tour: Car, Driver and Petrol                    

Not included in the tour: Entrance fee

Start Time: 03:00 pm                     Return time : 07.30 pm

Price :US $ 50 per car

 ITINERARY :
1. Taman Ayun, the royal temple of Mengwi Empire located in Mengwi, Badung regency
2. Alas Kedaton, with temple and a hundreds of monkeys.
3. Tanah Lot,  to see the beautiful Sunset with temple silhouette.                   Book now   

PACKAGE #3. Half Day tour

RICE FIELD AND AGRICULTURAL TOUR

This tour will offer you the beauty of nature in the middle part of Bali island. We will escort to see one of the most spectacular rice field terraces is Tegallalang area, just about 15 minutes drive outside Ubud. Surrounding gorge full of rice fields became an attraction in itself. 

Then we go to the north to see the traditional coffee processing or bali agrotourism, a place to see various tropical plantation such as robusta, snake skin (salak), cacao, jackfruit, durian trees, and many more. Experience to see how to make coffee in traditional way and taste the fresh of coffee or the ginger tea with green view  of river valley. They also make a expensive coffee well known as "coffee luwak". This cofee is process from the beans that have been eaten by the civet cat, not-really-digested, then pooped out, collected up, cleaned, roasted and ground for our drinking pleasure. Lastly we continue to Gowa Gajah, This Cave  is a significant Hindu archaeological site. Goa Gajah is locally known as the Elephant Cave because of its close proximity to the Elephant River. A mysterious cave, relics, and ancient bathing pools set amid green rice paddies and a garden lure tourists from nearby Ubud

Included in the tour : car, driver, and petrol 

not included : entrance fee

start time : 09.00                        return time : 15:00

Price : us$ 40 per car

 ITINERARY :                                                                     

1. Andong, a village with the handicraft art shop 

2. Tegallalang, the magnificent rice terrace 

3. Tirta empul, a temple with the bathing place for royal family

4. kayuamba,  Traditional coffee plantation and agricultural

5. Gunung Kawi, rocky cemetery for the royal family

6. Goa Gajah, the unity of Hindu and Buddhism temple

                           

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Package # 1 Full Day tour

 KINTAMANI  Volcano Tour

Kintamani is the most tourism object in Bali. There are so many traveler visit this areas. Kintamani located at the hill areas about 50 km north of Kuta. this village has a beautiful panorama of Batur vulcano and the big lake in Bali. There is also a big temple called Batur temple where you can see the balinese people bring traditional offering to worship GOD.We also visit Tirta Empul, This Temple is  (Indonesian: Pura Tirta Empul) is a Hindu temple in the middle of Bali Island, Indonesia, famous for its holy water where Hindu Bali people go for purification.Tirta Empul Temple was built in 962 A.D. during the Warmadewa dynasty (from the 10th to 14th centuries), at a site where there was a large water spring.

                                                                 

Included in the tour: Car, driver, and Petrol

Not included in the tour: Entrance Fee

 Start Time: 08:30 am                     Return time : 05.30 pm

Price :  US $ 50 per car

Itenerary :

1. Watch Balinese Barong and kris dance
2. Visit the artist village (Batu bulan, Celuk, Batuan and Mas village)
3. Goa Gajah temple Or Gunung Kawi TempleTegalalang paddy rice terrace and whole sale handy craft
4. Kintamani Volcano and Lake (Lunch)**
5. Coffee,spice,tea and lowak coffee, Organic plantation
6. Tirtha empul temple (spring water temple)
7. Ubud Center (Ubud market and Palace)                     Book now

Package #2 Full day tours

Besakih Tours, The Mother Temple      

Start Time: 08:30 am                     Return time : 05.30 pm

Price :  US $ 60 per car

Besakih Temple is the biggest temple known as mother temples in Bali. Besakih temple is really a collection of temples, sprawling down the hillside and its sheer size means it has become a tourist trap.Balinese people often visit Besakih temple to receive blessings and lay offerings at certain shrines. Special calendar dates are more auspicious than others and during a big ceremony it can be an impressive sight 

Included in the tour: Car, Driver and Petrol

Not included in the tour: Entrance fee 

ITINERARY :

1.  Batik Home industry at Batubulan Village

2.  Kertagosa Court of Justice Palace in Klungkung Regency (east part of Bali)

3.  Bat Cave Temple or Goa Lawah temples

4.  Bukit jambul as magnificent hill scenery and rice field

5.  Besakih Mother Temple which known as the biggest hindu temple in Bali

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PACKAGE #3. Full Day tour

BEDUGUL & LOVINA - North Bali Tour

Lovina Singaraja tour is an exiting tour to visit place of interest in north part of Bali that have beautiful panorama and local society culture. The tour will bring you to an experience to explore the region   in north side of bali island and visit the famous tourist sites in Singaraja regency.

Start Time: 08:30 am                     Return time : 19.30 pm            
Price :  US $ 70 per car


ITINERARY :
1. Bedugul : The famous botanical garden                      
2. Candi Kuning : Art and fresh fruit market
3. Beratan Lake. The temple is known Ulun Danu Temple, Ulun means heart, Danu means lake.
4. Gitgit waterfall : The magmnificant and highest waterfall in bali
5. Lovina : The beautiful beach in north part of Bali
6. Banjar : The well known hot spring water completed with the swimming pool

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PACKAGE #4. Full Day tour

Easthern Bali tour - Candidasa tour

Candidasa Tour is a tour packages to visit places of interest in east part of Bali like Tenganan Village, Goa Lawah (Bat cave), Kerthagosa,  and tirta gangga is  water playground designed by a prince in the Royal Family of Karangasem as a resting place. . The tour is exploring the tourist destinations in east part of Bali with unique of local society life and pass through the beautiful beach of Candidasa.                                         

Included in the tour: Car, Driver and Petrol

Not included in the tour: Evtrance fee

Start Time: 08:30 am                     Return time : 19.30 pm               
Price :  US $ 50  per car                                                                                                   

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ITINERARY :

1. Kertagosa,  Court of Justice Palace in Klungkung Regency.
2. Goa Lawah, the bat cave temple
3. Candidasa, the beautiful black sand beach and nice place for stay.
4. Tenganan , an ancient village well known for its "Double Ikat" woven cloths called gringsing.
5. Tirta gangga,  water playground designed by a prince in the Royal Family of Karangasem as a  resting place

The Barong Dance of Bali

Barong is probably the most well known dance. It is also another story telling dance, narrating the fight between good and evil. This dance is the classic example of Balinese way of acting out mythology, resulting in myth and history being blended into one reality.

  

Regular Stages
There are many Barong dance stages in Bali with regular show, both daily, or certain days that is appointed according to customer they serve. Well known stages are in the town of Batubulan and east Denpasar or Kesiman. In the town of Batubulan there are at least 4 stages known so far, but the most active with daily schedule of performance are only 3 which location is close each other. Their location is distributed within 3 km street of the main road that leading from Denpasar to Gianyar city. These 3 Barong dance stages known to have also enough space for parking the car or buses. One stage is just on the side of the road known as Barong Den Jalan, one is performed at the meeting hall of a temple called Pura Puseh, deep inside the town among the rice terrace yet now there are already many houses for local people also, and the other is performed at the house of a local people which is set up as beautiful traditional Balinese stage for traditional dances. All stages are made in traditional Balinese stages, with typical decoration, moated brick wall and entrance at some places, and typical temple and Balinese meeting hall architecture.

Performance Character
Barong dance which is also known as Barong and Keris dance is a mixed of Balinese traditional dance, drama and music. The most beautiful woman dance such as Legong Keraton is also presented in other dress attire as the opening or introduction of the dance. Usually by 2 girls followed by Balinese traditional music called Gong. Most Barong dance performance taking the theme of the performance from Mahabharata Epic, especially the period of Nakula and Sahadewa. The story is correlated with the struggle between the benevolence and bad spirit. The story presented for Barong dance has been strongly influenced by the school of Tantrayana Buddhist. This is shown by the personalization of good spirit with Barong dance, a creature resembling a tiger, and the bad spirit by a witch with ugly physical appearance, even frightening. The whole plot of the of the performance is always inserted with the moments of dialog between both the main figures and the servants or jokes. The music is played to strengthen or downturn the tension of the situation among the figures. So this type of performance can be said it is a mixed performance between dance, drama and clown.

Performance Stages
The dance is started at 9.30 AM with the rhythmic of Balinese traditional music called Gong. After 5 or 10 minutes the melody of Gong change suddenly and from the screen appear 2 girls with Balinese traditional beautiful dressing. These 2 girls perform the most feminism dance, showing how beautiful is the body of women and their ability to move very flexibly, following the tension and downturn of the music. Finalizing the dance, the Prime Minister of the kingdom of Ayodya Pura appears on the stage, expressing his difficult position in the kingdom as the Princess wish to sacrifice her 2 youngest sons to the king of Demon. The Prime Minister is getting pressure from high dignitaries to refuse the plan of the Princess, and is ordered to present before the Princess expressing the reason that the sacrifice is not necessary. Yet the people have been to much suffering from the disease and malicious action of the demon if the sons are not sacrificed. It is a great dilemma for the Princes, weather she should depend her sons or the people. With the explanation the Prime Minister promise to the Princess that he will do his utmost to fight the demon and safe the people and the young princess. Following the disappearance of Prime Minister and the Princess from the stage appear the servants of the Demon with ugly faces performing disoriented dances. This is to show how frightening is the existence of a demon with it's servants. Here the two main clowns appear on the stage and fight the demon servants. Most Barong dance have good clowns, as this part is actually the most interesting for the people who are able to make people laughing with her action on the stage. for those who do not even understand the language they spoken on the stage. The defeat of Demon servant following by the appearance of Princess with the Prime Minister again in a quarrel for disagreement of the scarification of the youngest sons. Yet the king of Demon knows the conflict and soon send magic influence to the Prime Minister and change their mind to agree.

 

 Then the Prime Minister drag the 2 sons to be tied on a tree in the forest to be sacrificed to the king of Demon. As soon as Prime Minister left the boys in the forest the king of Demon appear on the stage which is called Rangda. The appearance of Rangda is really frightening in the perception of Balinese. Long fangs and teeth, big and long breasts, curling and messy long hair, hand nails are arching and long. With short dance by the player of Rangda, then she soon approach the tied son, yet suddenly the holy spirit of Bhatara Guru presence and safe the boys. In the situation of really disoriented, the Barong appear on the stage fight the Rangda. No one of them can defeat each other, and soon the servant of Barong around 10 or more men in checquered cloth appear with kriss on hand to defeat Rangda. Yet due to her strong magic power Rangda spread the invisible power to servants. Since they are stirred by the magic, they in contrary stab themselves with their own Keris. Some of the servants got trance and other still dancing while stabbing themselves seriously as it is seemed to be. A Pemangku or local priest with all white dress then appear with holy water and spread the holy water to the trance servants. Condition is now returned to normal, and the dance is finalized, with the total change of the melody of the music. Most of the guests come down to the dancers standing on the stage to get photo together.

Agung Bali Tours : Ubud – Volcano – Besakih Mother temple

Agung Bali Tours : Ubud – Volcano – Besakih Mother temple

A great tour combination with shopping, local foods and fascinating view of nature.

• Visit Ubud Villages, The village of art in a different materials i.e: meet stone carvers,wood carver,Silver craft and art painting

 

• Visit Ubud Monkey forest, the friendly and funny behave of monkeys

• Visit Tegalalang Rice terrace and its paddy rice terrace

• visit Tirtha Empul Temple (Spring Water Temple), Temple with healing pond

• Visit Coffee and spice farming with organic and manual coffee and spice processing and meet the world best coffee producers, the civet cat

• visit Kintamani, lake Batur and Mt. Batur, A semi active volcano

• Visit Besakih temple, Bali biggest temple (Mother Temple)

• Bukit Jambul, the great scenery of rice terrace, sea and island view from the height

Start time : 8:30
Price : US$ 50 /car (max.7 seats)

Galungan Day

Meaning of Galungan day in Bali community

Galungan is a sacred ceremony that gives spiritual strength to be able to distinguish where the life force coming from and where from budhi adharma atma is the voice of truth (dharma) in human beings. Balinese Hinduism people will celebrate Galungan Day on 29 august 2012.

The series activities of Galungan

Galungan is a feast of Hindu people in Bali are held every six months, so there are two times in a year Galungan celebration day. In Lontar Sunarigama Galungan Day has a lot of series of activities before or since, among others:

Sugihan Jawa Day
Sugihan Jawa celebrated on Wage Wrhaspati Wuku Sungsang, six days before Galungan. Implementation of this ceremony is to clean all the equipment and ceremonies in their respective holy places. Sugihan Jawa is a celebration with prayers for Hindu Majapahit and mostly descendants of Hindus in Bali.

 

Sugihan Bali Day
Sugihan Bali celebrated five days before Galungan on Friday Kliwon Wuku Sungsang where its meaning is to do self-purification that is our spiritual and physical. In Sugihan Bali, which celebrates the Bali Aga (original Balinese Hindu society), the Bali Aga village whose inhabitants are traditional inhabitants of Bali can be seen in the area Tenganan, Karangasem, Bali.

Penyekeban Day
Three days before Galungan on Redite Paing Wuku Dungulan told The Three Kala Wisesa down to earth and annoying the humans. On that day is recommended for silencing the mind so as not to be entered by Butha Galungan (evil spirits).

Penyajaan Day
Two days before Galungan on Monday (Pon Dungulan) called Penyajaan Galungan. On this day people who know about yoga and semadhi.

Penampahan Galungan Day
The day before Galungan on Wage Anggara wuku Dungulan. On this day regarded as a day to beat Butha Kala of Galungan with the main ceremony of making offerings like byakala (banten). Most of the people on this day slaughter pigs as an animal sacrifice. But the real significance is today should kill animalistic traits that exist in themselves. But the habits of the people now is to cut daily sacrifice on the day before to save time so that at Penampahan Galungan usually just make satay, lawar and macam2 makana for offerings. On this day also be making Penjor which is a symbol of majesty Galungan Day celebrations.

Galungan Day
Galungan is a sacred ceremony that gives spiritual strength to be able to distinguish where the life force coming from and where from budhi adharma atma is the voice of truth (dharma) in human beings. more information about meaning of Galungan Day

Manis Galungan Day
The day after Galungan is Thursday Umanis Dungulan wuku called Umanis Galungan. On this day people remember how beautiful the victory of dharma. The people in general vent their joy by visiting places of entertainment, especially the beautiful panorama. Also visit our family for say hello with them.