02 JUL 2011 SAT - BALI - 2. Ubud Palace & Market

Puri Saren Ubud (Ubud Palace) is an Ubud Kingdom Palace with beautiful Balinese traditional houses as a residence of Ubud King. It is set in the center of Ubud Bali with traditional art market just in front of it and it is found by Ida Tjokorda Putu Kandel who has commanded from year 1800 - 1823. This palace is an artistic cultural life center, while the traditional market is the symbol of local economics resident. The existence of Puri Saren as a palace is equipped by a Wantilan/auditorium that is a large building of meeting room and a banyan tree as shelter place at the daytime. The traditional market is the place of society economics and its existence is always border on palace as artistic cultural life center. It means that the both pole meeting is describing the dynamics of society and kingdom life.

told yoman we wanna visit ubud palace, ubud market and eat babi-guling for lunch, he dropped us at the road between babi-guling and ubud palace... asked us to look for him there when done :)

ubud palace is about 5 minutes drive from kunang-kunang guesthouse (opposite direction of the way to dirty duck)... to describe the where about of ubud palace, ubud market and babi-guling from the map:
* ubud palace is in the centre
* babi-guling is on the left of ubud palace
* ubud market is in the front and opposite the ubud palace
* ubud tourist info is on the left of ubud market 
  
ubud palace...cannot go in lor! (not open to public)


ubud market:


i took the following pic of st from here, vice versa:


bali lady 'cat walk' in the market... with rows of fragile eggs on her head:


1 comment:

Gabrielle Evelyn said...

LOL,I am very surprised by the last two picture!So amazing!


herve leger