Tenganan is unique Bali Aga culture that still holds to the original traditions, ceremonies and rules of ancient Balinese, and its unique village layout and architecture.  We spent several hours there learning about the villiage and culture. .

Sign at entrance to Tenganan.

Man etching the entire text of the Bhagavad Gida onto strips of bamboo which then are bound together with string.

Statues

Fighting roosters

Town street

House wall. Severalhouses had such unique walls

another wall

Washing the fighting cock

Like many Balinise they had motorcycles. There were thousands of them on the island,

Village street

Judy giving us a lecture about the town.

Dog on raised platform used for drying straw used in roofing

Looking into house courtyard

Most famous Balinese Letterwriter

I Wayan Muditadnana, the letter writter at work

Inscribing text onto bamboo

His tools

Laura holding a 'book' he created

Close up of the writing on bamboo

The super long thumbnail indicates he does not do manual labor.

I Wayan Muditadnana playing the gamelan

Worker making roofing for temples from palm straw

Sign says "No smoking" due to the covered building being filled with straw.

More fighting cocks

Water buffalo

Double ikat weaving which means the patteren is both in the warp and the weft, i.e. both horizontally and vertically which is more complicated than going in just one direction.

Woman weaving

Double ikat weavings that were very expensive.

After leaving Tenganan we had Lunch at ocean side resturant

At lunch

Marsha's lunch

The ocean as seen from the resturant

While we were sitting at the table we see a boat flying by.

That was being chased by a dragon.

They were kites which a vendor on the beach was flying and selling. I ran down to the beach and bought one of each which now hang in my study.

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