BATIK WEAVING

Batik Weaving
Before Gianyar, traveling from Kutri, there is a road junction. For a shorter round trip (skipping the Gianyar-Kintamani circuit) which allows more time for shopping in Ubud and Mas, take the road left to Bedulu and follow the tour from there (pages 151-157). Or, if there is time, take the road right to Gianyar and Kintamani.

Just outside Gianyar there are several textile and weaving works with rows of bright; freshly dyed cloths hanging outside. Visitors are welcome inside to watch the nimble-fingered weavers at work.

Looking on to the square in the center of town is the puri surviving in tact from the former kingdom. A policy of war enabled its early rulers to carve out a powerful realm early in the 1 9th century, until its expansion was check by the Dutch. The puri, inside and out, presents fine examples of traditional architecture, stone and wood carving. The eating stalls near the cockfight arena are good, especially for roast pig

A side-road from Gianyar links with Lebih on the coast, where once a year people from all over the Gianyar regency hold a large celebration to placate the demonic forces that bring disease to man and rice. On the road from Gianyar to Blahbatuh is the village Bona, a center of basket weaving and the home of the modern kecak dance. About three kilometers beyond Gianyar, the road onward to Kintamani branches left.

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