BALI

Once you arrived at Denpasar, there are several ways to travel around the island to visit the numerous places of interest. taxis, buses, micro buses, and even rented cars and motorbikes with or without drivers are available.

Denpasar, the capital city of Bali, has many community temples called pura and the Bali Museum. it presents a fine variety of prehistoric and modern art. Its architectural design resembles that of a palace. Celuk the village northeast of Denpasar, is noted for its silver and gold for jewelry and ornaments. Sandstone workshops can be found in Batubulan just southwest of Celuk. The village of Batuan specializes in traditional painting and weaving as well as decoration wooden panels and screens.

The village further north is Mas. Many of Bali's master woodcarvers still live and work here. Art galeries exhibit their best work of art. Further to the north is Ubud, the centre of Balinese painting. Goa Gajah at Bedulu, southeast of Ubud, dates back to the 11th century and is believed to have been built as a monastery bearing many rock carvings, statues and bathing pool with six statues of nymphs holding water spouts. Traveling further north from Ubud, you come to Tampaksiring, where a thousand year old sacred spring is still used by the Balinese to pray for prosperity and for the water's curative powers.

Besakih, on the slope of Mount Agung, is the location of the mother temple of Bali, the biggest and holiest of all Balinese temples. southwest of Ubud is Sangeh. here you can see the forest of Sangeh, which is inhabited by a lot of monkeys. the forest and the monkeys are considered sacred.

Two well known spot are Sanur beach and Kuta beach. They are situated on the south east coast and the south west coast of the island respectively. Sanur beach is known for its quiet surf while Kuta beach for its sandy beach and high surf and beautiful sunset.