Or, if there is time, take the road right to Gianyar and Kintamani.
Visitors are welcome inside to watch the nimble-fingered weavers at work. .
Looking on to the square in the center of town isthepurisurviving intactfromtheformer kingdom. A policy of war enabled its early rulers to carve out a powerful realm early in the 1 9th century, until its expansion was check by the Dutch. The puri, inside and out, presents fine examples of traditional architecture, stone and wood carving. A side-road from Ginnyar links with Lebih on the coast, where once a year people from all over the Gianyar regency hold a large celebration to placate the demonic forces that bring disease to man and rice. On the road from Gianyar to Btahbatuh is the village Bona, a center of basket weaving and the home of the modern kecak dance.