 
Alas Kedaton
is come from the word Alas mean forest and Kedaton. It is a small forest
dwelt by a group of monkey and big bat hang-on the trees. The tropical trees are
fertile growing in this forest that makes it an ideal habitat of monkeys and
other animals. All monkeys living in this forest are chummy and tame with human
being. There is a Hindu temple existing in the middle of forest and rice field
are located outside of it.
Alas Kedaton is a small forest with the width about 6-7ha located in the middle of the rice field in Tabanan regency, west of Bali. The total size of this forest, temple and its supporter facility is about 12 ha. In this forest, there is a temple called Alas Kedaton Temple and owns the natural environments that is looked green with its fresh
air and create the calm, quite and holy atmosphere. The monkeys in Alas
Kedaton are very tame and free gallivanting in temple yard, so that the
calm atmosphere is sometime solved by noise voice of the monkey, which
are playing around and scrambling of food. The monkeys who dwell in
this forest, there are jump up and down in temple wall, take a bath in
moat or there is also hang out in few leaves representing impression
view. The monkey like as custodian of temple, which are always ready to
greet all visitor who are paying a visit to this place. Beside monkeys,
in Kedaton forest also can be met the bats and some other animals. At
least 24 types of grove plant have been identified in Alas Kedaton.
las Kedaton is Place to Visit in Bali
Alas Kedaton is located in Kukuh countryside, Marga Sub district, Tabanan Regency .
The journey go to this place can be done easily by using motor vehicle
follow the major roadway from Denpasar to Tabanan. On the way go to
this tourist place, we will see the beautiful nature
view where in front of us will meet the carpet of rice field and
irrigation voice at the side of road to bear the impression/peaceful
atmosphere. Alas Kedaton Temple have three yard that are external yard,
middle and center yard. In the center and middle yard are encircled by
wall and the outside yard is representing a open yard. The interesting
point of this temple is the inside yard representing holy yard, its
situation lower than the middle yard. This thing is different compare
with the general temples in Bali that are more goes to inside the
temple, the more higher the place will be. Beside of that another
interesting point of this temple owns four entrances.
Temple Festival at Alas Kedaton Temple
The
temple ceremony in alas Kedaton temple is carried out every 210 days a
year. It is on Anggarakasih Medangsia (Balinese Hindu Calendar) or on
every Tuesday where on that time the society do the worship or pray to
request the safety and prosperity. The unique in this ceremony is do
not use the fire and do not hence Penjor and also finished before the
sunset or before the night is come.
In growth of handling of this tourist destination,
Alas Kedaton has several become a training location about tourism
nature, environmental handling and agro tourism. Alas Kedaton is many
visited by the tourist from local and foreign countries which are
generally a lot of paying a visit on August, December until January,
while the local tourist generally pay a visit on holiday season and
feast day of Ramadan (Moslem holiday) and this place is good to be
visited in the day time. In front of Alas Kedaton temple there are
quite a lot small shops selling the handicraft as souvenir, for example
clothes, pants and other handicrafts. Others, there are some shops
booth selling food and beverage, toilet and park area which is wide
enough.
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