Occasionally, the earnestness of an expression makes one wonder if an insult is not being repaid. During this festival, ferris wheels, such as you pass on the road past Klungkung, are set up on the rising terraces of the village. Some have one wheel of seats, others two, and the whole wooden contraption is turned by the foot-power of two men at the tops of the poles on either side. Within a few kilometers of Tenganan are other conservative and secluded villages that enact, unchanged, rituals peculiar to them. At Asak, dancers sweep their hair in a great coil to one side, as seen in old stone statues of noblewomen.
Men play the ancient gamelan gambang of wooden keys.
Beyong Tenganan, the main road crosses a pass overlooking a huge valley.