local life
Palm Sugar and Arak in Sidemen
Sidemen, Karangasem
93
Climb with Kadek's family at first light to tap palm blossoms, then reduce the sap to sugar over a wood fire.
Low tourist intensity 3h
from Rp 400.000Discover experience
92
Locality Score™
Deeply local
ImpactNine weaving households share the visits; cloth is bought at the loom, never through a reseller.
Sidemen, Karangasem
Meet Kadek
Palm tapper's daughter and songket weaver
Story
Kadek weaves songket between palm-sugar seasons and coordinates which households in Sidemen host visitors, so the income spreads instead of concentrating on the one family beside the road.
Community
Sidemen weaving households
Languages
Balinese, Indonesian, English
Skills
Songket weaving, Palm sugar making, Household hosting rota
Experiences offered
craft
Songket Weaving in Sidemen
Sidemen, Karangasem
91
Sit at the loom with Sidemen's weavers, where a single ceremonial cloth takes three months and is sold by the maker, not a shop.
Low tourist intensity 3h
from Rp 425.000Discover experience