Ubud Palace/Puri Saren
Puri Saren Ubud (Ubud Palace) is an Ubud Kingdom Palace with beautiful Balinese traditional houses as a residence of Ubud King. It is set in the center of Ubud Bali
with traditional art market just in front of it and it is found by Ida
Tjokorda Putu Kandel who has commanded from year 1800 - 1823. This
palace is an artistic cultural life center, while the traditional market
is the symbol of local economics resident. The existence of Puri Saren
as a palace is equipped by a Wantilan/auditorium that is a large
building of meeting room and a banyan tree as shelter place at the
daytime. The traditional market is the place of society economics and
its existence is always border on palace as artistic cultural life
center. It means that the both pole meeting is describing the dynamics
of society and kingdom life. Places to Visit in Ubud
The
tourists who purchase the tour package to Ubud will visit this place
and they will feel not complete if they are not invited to visit the Puri Saren (Ubud Palace)
and traditional market, because both of these tourist destinations are
the soul and identity of Ubud Village itself. The palace is very
beautiful with artistically traditional building and contains the high
esthetics value. It is situated in the good temperature which can give
the ruthless and freshness for every visitor. Some world class painters
from Europe have lived in Ubud like Rudolf Bonnet, Walter Spies, Arie
Smith, Antonio Blanko, Hans Snell and others. These entire world class
painters through its painting masterpiece have indirectly followed to
promote Bali Tourism because theme or their painting objects are about
the culture and nature of Bali. Ida Tjokorda Agung Sukawati has
exploited his palace as lodge place for his entire respectable guest.
Ubud Palace in Growth
In the year 1928, the Tjampuhan Hotel is
founded for all empire's guest and on 1934, this hotel is opened as a
lodge for empire's guest and also used as a center place of Pita Maha
Organization Activities. Tjampuhan Hotel is an eldest hotel in Ubud with
the traditional style. In growth hereinafter, Ubud as a tourism
destination is one of tourist area in Gianyar Regency own separate
specification.
The
art crafting are sold in this art market consisted of various crafting,
from traditional until contemporary crafting which its price is
relatively cheap. You can do the transaction directly to the merchant
which generally can be bargained. All the crafting sold in this place
you can bring home as souvenir like slipper, wood idol, bag, clothes,
matting, painting and a lot of more.
Ubud Village
is also well known as a culture village where we easily find the local
community presenting traditional cultures from the ritual up to the
traditional dance performances. This village own the rich culture with
the history heritage of all big actors, especially all famous artists,
for example I Gusti Nyoman Lempad (1862 - 1978), Anak Agng Gede Sobrat (1919 - 1992), I Gusti Made Deblog (1910 - 1968), afterward caught up by others like, I Gusti Ketut Kobot, Ida Bagus Made, Dewa Putu Bedil, Ida Bagus Rai and others. The popularity of all above artists follows to give the inspiration to all west artists to live in Ubud Bali. In year 1920's, two European artist people that are Rodolf Bonnet from Dutch and Walter Spies
from Germany inscribe the new history of artistic growth paint the
countryside of Ubud. Second, the European artist introduce the European
esthetics technique especially illumination area, shadow, perspective
and anatomy. All local artists permeate the new technique matching with
value and base on local mind fixed take the traditional so that able to
give the separate identity by the name Ubud. Ubud Village progressively
famous as a born area of all painters because the existence of the
cooperation between Tjokorda Gede Agung Sukawati and Rudolf Bonnet to
form the Pita Maha. Pita Maha represent a place to
discuss the artistic growth and problem paint, and also to compare mind
to each other and introducing result of art which they own. 
The word of Gua Gajah is anticipated coming from the word of Lwa Gajah, the name of Buddhist Temple
or hermitage for Buddhist monk. The Gua Gajah's name is written on
Negarakeertagama papyrus which is compiled by Mpu Prapanca on 1365 M.
Lwa or Lwah/loh mean the river and it reflect to the meaning that the
hermitage is located at Gajah River or in Air Gajah. In the year
inscription 944 Saka, it is mentioned with the name of ‘ser ring Air
Gajah' that is meaning the Subak leader in Air Gajah. The word has
mentioned that the hermitage of Lwa Gajah is located in Subak Air Gajah.
Mas Village is one of villages in Bali fundamentally identified as an artistic countryside by focusing in artistic of wood carving. 
This
Artistic countryside owns the long history root. The result of wood
carving art in this village owns the immeasurable and wide dimension
like idol for the devoting (arca idol), representative dimension of
everyday Balinese social society life (farmer, fisherman, worker,
intellectual, merchant etc), the abstract dimension as existing of actor
imagination which is listening carefully of reality, dynamics and life
philosophy. The villagers are same as villagers at