bali
Customary villages and bamboo forest
Understand this place before you visit
Bali's only landlocked regency, rising from Bangli town to the Batur caldera, home to Penglipuran and several Bali Aga-influenced villages.
Customary villages governed by councils that still enforce the layout, rota and obligations of village life.
Awig-awig customary law, dense ceremonial life, and clear boundaries about what visitors may join.
Loloh cemcem, tipat cantok, and Kintamani-side coffee and citrus.
Bamboo forest, pine slopes and the caldera rim above Lake Batur.
Penglipuran, Bangli
Ketut takes you to his banjar temple at the hour families actually go, and explains what you are looking at before you step through the gate.
Penglipuran, Bangli
Split, shave and bind bamboo in Ketut's workshop, where every house in the village still buys its ceremonial containers.