Thursday, June 18, 2009

Karangasem Regency

Regency of Karangasem with Amlapura as central is the largest town in East Bali, covering an area of 83,954 kilometres square. Karangasem itself consist of eight Districts. Namely:
1. Kubu
2. Rendang
3. Abang
4. Sidemen
5. Selat
6. Bebandem
7. Karangasem
8. Manggis






Karangasem has an extraordinary variety of scienic landscape. Low and high mountain ranges intermingle with unplant plain, tropical forest, terraced rice field, beautiful beaches, culture and historic archeological remaining, traditional ‘Bali Age’ village with their way of life make karangasem worth visiting.

Places of interest
Candi Dasa

Candi dasa is located in hilly bank, beside of the main road between Semarapura towns with Amlapura (Karangasem). In the center of Candidasa there is a pool which is wide enough, and from that place we can enjoy the beautiful view of the Lombok Strait. Candidasa own beautiful beach with the black sand along the coastal and the magnificence view of the ocean.

Tirtagangga
Tirta Gangga is a beautiful park with the huge water fountain and wide pond located at Abang Sub-district, Karangasem Regency in east part of Bali. Tirta Gangga Park is built in the year of 1948 by the Karangasem King of Anak Agung Agung Angluerah Ketut Karangasem.

Tenganan
Tenganan is traditional old village in Bali ‘Bali Age’ This tourism destination is visited for village with their traditional way of life unique traditional building, rural place far from modernization.

Puri Agung
Puri Agung(one the royal palaces) was built in 19th centaury by the first king of karangasem, Anak Agung Gede Jelantik. This tourism destination is visited for its unique architecture, which is the combination of Balinese, Chinese and European architecture.

1 comment:

  1. Karangasem regency is a district located in the province of Bali, Indonesia the Capital is in the Amlapura.

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