kecak dance

Kecak Dance

laterally kechak meana chours of fantastic sound of cak...cak...cak...this dance is performed by 120 people. they sit in 6 or 7 concentric circle. in the middle of then stand a branch torch with flirckering ligfohts. the story has been choosen from ramayana ecip.rama is a legal hair of ayodya , but he was exciled from the realm of his father dasa rata.
rama goes to the forest of dandaka to wonder from one forest to another forest, he is accompanied by his wafe, dewi sinta and his faitful younger brother laksamana. rahwana the king of alengka is desiring to kidnap dewi sinta in the forest he asks his minister marica to transform himself into a dear with a golden horn. by this trick, rahwana succed to kidnap dewi sinta and bring her to alengka, rahwana is ancountered by a nighty bird , jatayu (rama's fellow).
jatayu tries to release sinta from rahwana's hand. meanwhile rama and laksamana continue their journey to search dewi sinta. he meets anoman. the wihite monkey. anoman with his monkey's soldiers then support king rama to get back his wife dewi sinta from alengka.

about sangeh

Pura bukit sari sangeh

in the sangeh monkey forest a protected grove of nutmeg trees where tribes of monkeys dwell as honoured guests, can be found a spacious temple known as pura bukit sari sangeh . this temple was originally built by the royal family of mengwi, and is now taken care of by teh people from teh village of sangeh.
according to the history bukit sari was built by anak agung anglurah made karangasem sakti, the edopted son of raja mengwi, cokorde sakti blambangan . mengwi was once one of bali's major kingdoms nearby to sangeh only 18 km from denpasar.
at the beginning of xvII th century the royal family of mengwi ruled over the area from blambangan to east java.
anak agung anglurah made karang asem sakti had from his ehild hood practise " tapa rere" a kind of meditation where in one returns to the state of childhood. thun he obtained the inspiration to build in the nutmeg forest at sangeh.
to this day the bukit sari temple remains as a testament to the duty and reapect that the royal family of mengwi pay to the god mount agung