After deciding to hire a self-drive car in Bali, the next question is, where do you drive the car? If your daily activities are in the office and you are bored with the city atmosphere, visiting the outskirts of the city and seeing the village with its fresh green nature is a good idea that is worth trying. In Bali, visiting villages and enjoying the mountainous nature makes for an exciting holiday experience in Bali.
Get saturated with the atmosphere of a boisterous and noisy city? You can calm down your mind or refresh the soul at Pangsan Tourism Village, Petang, Badung. The village located about 30 km north of Denpasar or Sanur, can be reached by car for 1 hour. It offers you a cool atmosphere and mystical aura helping you get fresher.
Meanwhile, the countryside panorama it has is very beautiful supported by pristine societal culture and a clean nature. A wide range of agricultural activities are on offer in plantation, farm, and fishing ground. Other challenging activities are trekking, taking a promenade around the village becoming a favorite to foreign tourists. Almost every day, there is a group of tourists taking advantage of the product offered by the tourism village.
There are two trekking paths on offer, namely hard trekking with a distance of 5 km, while soft trekking has a distance of 2 km. Both paths offer the beauty of rice field with attraction of plowing in traditional manner. Some other attractions are plowing rice field by taking advantage of Bali’s cattle, planting rice, harvesting, tradition to put offerings and attractions of integrated farming.
In addition, tourists can also see some creative activities of the village community. People cultivate their dry fields by planting trees to meet their household needs. Among others, there are cacao tree, sapodilla, coffee, vanilla, papaya, cloves, mangosten, banana, snakefruit, and many other local fruit. There are also trees whose leaf and fruit taken advantage as a vegetable. Fruit trees in dry field of local residents are not only attractive to see, but also sweet in the mouth.
Other activities of the community are breeding cows, chickens, goats, ducks and others. Dung of livestock processed to produce gas and energy and directly utilized by household also draws the attention of guests. More than that, tourists can explore people’s homes to see the attraction of traditional cooking. They can see ngelawar and mebat done by men as well as cooking, preparing oblations, Bali’s baking, fruit arrangement and grounding coffee carried out by housewives in simple customary attires. At the end, participants of trekking get a serving of young coconut drinks and traditional arts performance. For tourists with an adventurous soul can enjoy the local rapids through rafting games covering the distance for some 2.5 hours.
Lets plan your itinerary while in Bali, enjoy your drive.
