Ubud Village | Bali Places to Stay

Ubud Village, Favorite Bali Places to Stay

Ubud Village is well known as one of Bali Places to Stay since the village surrounded by the good temperature and beautiful natures. Meanwhile, the local people are friendly with strong local cultures and traditions. It has captivated the tourists want to enjoy the village ambiance and stay together with local people. Ubud Village is a traditional village supervising 13 Banjars (group of community) and 6 custom countrysides. It is located in Ubud sub district, Gianyar Regency and about 20 km from Denpasar Town. Ubud Vilage can be reached within 30 minutes or 15 minutes from Gianyar Town.

In addition, the good temperatures are surrounding the Ubud Village that making it different with other regions in Bali. The temperatures are relative cool and ideally for everyone to stay in this beautiful place. Meanwhile, this village is occupied by 9.800 peoples and most of them are Hindu. They able to keep the environment naturally, hence many people including tourists get the art inspiration from this village.

The Born of Ubud Village

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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 aesthetics 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.