Objects Sangeh

Objects Sangeh Blahkiuh village located in Badung regency Abiansemal districts . Sangeh can be taken approximately 30 minutes from the city of Denpasar , 45 minutes from Kuta area , 90 minutes from the direction of Nusa Dua and 25 minutes from Ubud area of Bali . Tourist attraction here is the nutmeg forest hundreds of years old as well as a collection of tame monkeys that inhabit these forests . Sangeh also a protected forest area which covers an area of ​​approximately 14 hectares and mostly overgrown with trees nutmeg ( dipterrocarpustrinervis ) approximately 50 meters tall and is inhabited by about 700 animals gray macaque ( Macaca faciculais ) . To visit this area will be charged an entrance fee of Rp . 5.000 , - , and there are some officers that site managers or guides dressed in traditional Balinese are ready to help every visitor . Some instructions for entering these areas include dress decently and orderly , carefully carrying luggage , and forbidden to interfere with apes . Before entering Sangeh area , it is recommended to buy a packet of food for monkeys beans or corn are sold at kiosks around the parking lot . That makes Sangeh famous is because around this village monkeys ( monkeys ) in a forest roam freely and be sacred animals according to local belief . In the middle of the forest there is also a temple called Pura Bukit Sari . This temple was founded by the Kingdom of Mengwi is now handed over to the locals. Monkeys here has a story according to the king and said to have the three regions of the kingdom. According to a local legend , the existence of Pura Bukit Sari is set in the middle of the woods is told is mythological in Papyrus Babad Mengwi . Told daughter Ida Batara Gunung Agung in the desire to disungsung in the Kingdom of Mengwi . He wills the nutmeg forest that is in place Mount Agung Mount Agung daughter Ida Batara settled then moved mysteriously at night time . When the trip just got Sangeh , then there are people who see the mysterious journey . This is what is said to be the cause of the nutmeg forest can not walk back to get and keep a stop at Mengwi Village Sangeh until now . It is said that the adoptive son of the first king of Mengwi , I Gusti Agung Putu who holds Cokorda Way Blambangan found traces of building shrines . Adoptive son of the King of Mengwi named Anak Agung Ketut Karangasem . The above discovery Cokorda Way Blambangan ordered to rebuild the temple and was named Pura Bukit Sari . Worshiped in the temple is the Ida Batara Batara Gunung Agung and toss . Besakih Temple on the slopes of Mount Agung temple was classified as Purusa or the soul of the island of Bali .