Tegalalang Village - Rice Terrace and Wood Craft Center



Tegallalang Village rice terraces has beautifull view with coconut trees & beautifull little river valley. Tegallalang Village widely known with the village of handicrafts centre specially for wholesale & export, a long of the road you will notice lots of the shops, they sell variety of painted woodcarving with colorfull designed. The painted woodcarving products the sell made from light wood with reasonable cost, they do sell theirs handicrafts for retail .

Tegalalang Rice village located on the north-south road from Kintamani & Ubud. Various woodcarvings can be present in this village & its neighbors. colorful carvings of flowers, animals & other designs are displayed along the road, & naturally a beutiful ricefield



Tegalalang village is famous with rice terrace, but now on the way go to tegalalang village both side of the road you find lots of shops with selling woodcarving. The first example of Balinese landscape is the rice-field. This is a typical scene in Bali. The terraced rice-field is typical of the beauty of the Balinese countryside

Note the harmony of colors, the vivid green of the coconut groves & the pale blue of the sky. Wet rice agriculture (sawah) is the basic & most important activity of Balinese life; Rice is the major crop & the staple food.
In the work of the growth period of the rice, the fields are periodic flooded. The Subak or irrigation cooperatives, regulate the permit of water & maintenance of irrigation networks. The water from single dam may be divided in to douses & even hundreds of channel to irrigate the terraced rice field, note how many-terraced field are served by this particular manual serves.

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