Thursday, July 16, 2015

Ancient Balinese Life History in Yeh Pulu Relief


Yeh Pulu Ubud is one of cultural destination in Bali. Many tourists who visit the Yeh Pulu Temple are foreign tourists. Domestic tourists are very rarely visited this relief. It’s because the less promotion about this temple for domestic tourist. Yeh Pulu Temple located in Bedulu Village, Blahbatuh Sub-District, Gianyar Regency. 

Because located in Bedahulu Village, Yeh Pulu Temple also called Yeh Pulu Bedulu. The unique from this temple are the location. Located in very vast rice fields and scattered in all directions Bedulu Village. So you not only look at the temple reliefs history, but that you will see the rice terraces are arranged neatly. To can reach this temple, you must past the rather small footpath. This footpath very maintained, from the cleanliness and the beauty. This footpaths maintenance, conducted by the local community who have a farm organization, named Subak. 

This location has facilities like parking area, toilet and Balinese souvenirs. In this temple you can see many uniques ancient relief. Because in this temple there are many reliefs, so this temple often called Yeh Pulu Relief. There are ancient relief, carved in the rock, long relief about 25 meters and the width relief about 2 meters. 

The reliefs history contained in this temple, tells about the ancient Balinese life history, in the Bedahulu Kingdom. Not only relief on the wall, holes protrudes into place to meditate, also in this area. It’s said this place used Bedahulu King to meditation, before lose his battle against the Majapahit Kingdom on 1343.

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