Denpasar Sightseeing Tour

  03 May 2010, 12:49:35 (754 hits)

Denpasar is a bustling cosmopolitan city that provides health services, business opportunities, educations and government services for the whole island. It is the biggest city of Bali with 400.000 souls. This half day trip features the sounds and sights of Denpasar, such as : Colourful Traditional Morning Market, where people get their daily needs. Products sold here range from fresh fishes and meats, vegetables, fruits, offerings, incenses, spices, to Balinese ritual utensils, garment products and handicrafts.
City centre and the Museum of Bali, with its Catur Muka Statue, Puputan (mass suicide) monument, Jagatnatha ( King of the Universe) temple and the museum of Bali. The museum displays a large collection from archaeological remains to ritual objects, from paintings, woodcarving, masks, leather puppets and textiles and other utensils used in daily life of Balinese. Werdhi Budaya (Art Centre), the place where Bali Arts Festival is held every year in order to maintain and enrich the culture of Bali and permanent exhibition on Art & Culture of Bali is displayed.

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Kumbasari Traditional Market :
Located on Jl. Gajah Mada, Denpasar, near the Badung River. This traditional, non-air-conditioned market offers an interesting overview of an Indonesia market. On the basement, you will find the traditional market and lots of traditional kitchen crafts made out of woven bamboo on the first floor. The second floor provides spices and dried goods as well as a wide variety of Balinese printed batik, Balinese and Javanese hand-woven textiles and various batik textiles at reasonable prices, while the household wares and clothing can be found on the third floor. In this market, you will find the unique thing from the local people especially the women when carrying the material or any items with extremely heavy, she put all of them on her head with a big basket.

Museum Negeri Bali
The Bali museum in Denpasar was built in 1931 and it is unique collection of buildings and art. Designed by architect P.J. Moojen, the exterior walls, courtyards and gates, are designed in the style of a Denpasar royal palace. The collection are available in this museum provides different experience on your tour

The Werdhi Budaya Art Centre
The Werdhi Budaya Art Centre was started in 1973 and finished in 1976: the largest and most complete in a series of cultural centres built throughout the archipelago by the Indonesian Government over the last decade. Designed by Bali's foremost architect, Ida Bagus Tugur, (also architect for Indonesia,s new National Art Gallery) the vast complex is, apart from its very real cultural function, a showplace for Balinese Temple and Palace Architecture at its most opulent. The open stage Arda Candra with its towering candi gate and the almost rococo main Art Museum, sprawling park, Balinese pavilions and follies have, become a regular architectural attraction.

Price Include :
- Private AC car
- English Speaking Guide
- Lunch at local restaurant
- Entrance ticket at tourism object

Child : Half price
Child age : 5 – 10 years

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