Ubud Bali Tour is Bali's art and culture half-day tour that lasts around 6-7 hours. During this tour, you will visit Bali's most famous art villages such as Tohpati famous for traditional hand weaving cloths and Batik home industry, Batubulan for Bali stone carving, and Celuk Village as the center of Bali gold and silver smith, Batuan and Ubud countryside for Bali best famous painting. On this tour, you will have an opportunity to explore Bali's traditional houses with its daily life and Ubud Royal King Palace. From both places, you can make a comparison between common people with rich Balinese people. This tour is very comfortable with our handy experience Bali driver as your tour guide who is always outstanding offer our best service with comprehensive information. It is a private tour with a full air-conditioning private car transfer.

Our half-day Ubud Bali Tour starts by visiting Tohpati Village, just about 12 kilometers from Kuta, which is famous for Bali's Batik Center. A batik is a traditional form of painting fabric. They painstakingly use dots and lines from wax to decorate the cloth. It is very impressive to watch. It would be impossible to visit or live in Indonesia and not be exposed to one of the country's most highly developed art forms, batik. On your first visit to a batik home industry, you will undoubtedly experience an overwhelming stimulation of the senses - due to the many colors, patterns, and the actual smell of batik. Only through repeated visits and a bit of study will the types of designs and their origins become apparent.

Our next destination is Batubulan Village which is popular as a Bali stone carving center both for interior and exterior. Batubulan Village is only 2 km from the border of east Denpasar city, or 20 km from Kuta, 35 km from Nusa Dua, and 15 km from Sanur. There are a lot of stone carving workshops along both sides of the road. most of the figures carved in stone are the figures found in myth, the epic of Ramayana, Mahabharata, and others. The influence of Buddhist Tantrayana is also very strong, so one can see various sculptures with frightening faces. Bali people as well as hotels or villas buy stone carvings from this village to decorate their property.

Our tour program will proceed to visit Bali's traditional gold and silver smith center, Celuk Village, about 15 minutes drive from Batubulan Village. Celuk Village is a famous village in Bali as well as in Indonesia as an art tourist destination cause of the innovation and creativity of the residents in gold and silver smith. The type of gold and silver craft that has been produced in this village are covering various rings, bangles, chokers, earrings, mother of pearls, broach, and other types of jewelry.

Ubud Bali Half Day Tour will continue to visit Bali's traditional house compound on the way to Ubud countryside. At this place, you will have a chance to explore Bali's traditional architecture and way of life from Bali common people. Our Bali professional driver as a tour guide will give you comprehensive information about each building with its every function. The half-day tour will proceed by visiting Batuan and Ubud countryside which is often said as the cultural center of Bali. This may be a slight exaggeration, but it is certainly true that Ubud and its surrounding is a very good place, probably the best, to survey the vast range of Balinese arts. We will visit one of the workhouses of the painting gallery to learn more info about Bali painting.

The next stop will be Mas village, located just about 15 minutes from Batuan Village. Mas Village belongs to Ubud District and is famous as the center of woodcarving, where you can find the fine arts of woodcarving made from very hard wood such as teak, mahogany, ebony, and hibiscus wood, those wood imported from another island Java, Sumatra, and Sulawesi. Recently, woodcarving produced not only for religious purposes but they are also produced for enjoyment and commerce.

Next stop will be Mas village, located just about 15 minutes from Batuan Village . Mas Village belong to Ubud District is famous for center of woodcarving, where you can find the fine arts of woodcarving made from very hard wood such as teak, mahogany, ebony and hibiscus wood, those of wood import from another island Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi. Recently, the woodcarving produced not only for religious purposes, but they are also produced for enjoyment and commerce.

Our last stop will be at Ubud King Palace and Ubud Traditional Art Market. Firstly we visit Ubud King Palace (Puri Saren Ubud) where the royal family lives. Puri Saren Ubud, for instance, is one building heritage from the king period. This heritage is still well maintained and comes to be an irresistible object to tourists who visit Ubud. The royal family allowed whoever likes to know closer about the atmosphere of the castle. We come into the palace and learn about Bali's traditional architecture, particularly Bali King Palace. Inside the palace, there are a lot of interesting things to photograph. In the evening the outside yard is used by the local group dance performance to held Legong Dance, Barong Dance, Ramayana Ballet, and Mahabrata Ballet.

Being satisfied with looking around the palace, you could take sit relaxingly in the Wantillan hall (which functioned for public activities) on the western side. While seating yourself, you can observe the concept of bale Banjar. Or visit Ubud traditional art market offering you any kind of Bali art mass product.

Trip Schedule: operate every day, when the weather is permitted.

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