Mas Village
Mas Village is one of villages in Bali fundamentally identified as an artistic countryside by focusing in artistic of wood carving. Mas Village
is located in Ubud sub district and Gianyar Regency, east part of Bali.
It owns the typical style of wood carving art by placing forward the
distinguish synergy the humanism and naturalism. The village's
popularity as an art village is famous in the national and world level
which is not forgetting from the highness name of some maestros which
has borne and found the spirit (taksu) and soul. The famous maestro who
was borne in this village is Ida Bagus Tilem.
Place to visit in Bali
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 other tourism countryside
in Bali that have also experienced the transformation from agrarian
society to the crafting society. Even nowadays, it is continued to
service society from commerce service until levying service of the
souvenir for overseas and domestic tourist.
Location
It is strategically located in the main road
from Denpasar to Ubud and it can be reached from various of angle. It is
about 15 km easterly go to the majors road to Ubud from Denpasar town.
If you wish to go to this place from Denpasar, the starting spandrel
points step into Mas Village is Sakah, where a big baby idol
monumentally existing in the middle of road. The Baby idol is a symbol
and representative of human being life early which is believed by local
residents with full of philosophic value, religious and dynamism.