Traditional Village of Tenganan

Tenganan Village, a traditional village of Balinese, Tenganan located in the regency of Karangasem that so many referred by the cultural science of the Literature of Tenganan Pegringsingan. The village of Tenganan represents one of an old field of the number in the island of Bali.

Its pattern of the life of the society represents an example of the culture of the village of Bali Aga (pre-Hindu) different with the other field in the level one from Bali. Like place of the destination of the tourism, the village of Tenganan can serve the attractive and unique matters that add the variation of the object and the fascination the tourist in Bali. Village of Tenganan that presents/displays the unique traditional culture the specification that is there is in the object of the wisata of the Tenganan field consisted of:

1. Pattern of Countrified of rural having the character of linear
2. The structure of the bilateral society that orients in collective precedence
3. Special the ritual system in of high frequency surrounds serves mechanical solidarity as the solidarity of religion, artistic and social
4. The Mekare-Kare tradition in every June that is fight of the tradition the pine of the screw in ritual context, value of the religion, the alcohol of the fight and the physical test of delaying accompanied by gambelan traditional of selonding
5. Art to make the armor by hand to hold to the cloth geringsing by designed and to fix the typical color.

Pict : some arts of gringsing

The village of Tenganan is located between field of the hill, the hill in the part of the west and the partition of the east. This field is inclusive of district secondary of Manggis, regency of Karangasem, consisted of three Banjar that those are Banjar Kauh, Banjar Tengah and Banjar Pande. The regional one of the field consisted of the complex three that those are complex resident, the plantation and complex of the field of the rice. The history of the village of Tenganan expressed in some version, first version mentioned that the resident of the village of Tenganan comes from the village of Paneges, a near one by the field of Bedahulu in the regency of Gianyar, second version it express that they write up Tenganan recognized in one of the inscription of Bali with the Tranganan word, ter expresses that the resident of the village of Tenganan requests to the temple of Bukit Lempuyang that overcomes the coast from Crystalized Dasa to the east near 10 and century 11. The word of Tenganan attributed by a word by the root of Tengah that can mean to aim at the center of Pegringsingan, representing the type armor of the cloth to typically hold the product of the resident of the village of Tenganan. The structure of the resident in the village of Tenganan is constructed in the ray consisted of linear seize, each ray consisted widely of some turf, forms the building that the relative, existence of the store of the art has altered original the some types of the resident. All the existence of the tradition of the one of the harmonious human being with the God, of est human with est of the human being and est human environmentally like according to the concept of Tri Hita Karana. The destination of the tourism of Tenganan remains to draw during the time, the quality like cultural object of the tourism, the nature of the tourism and the tourism of agriculture.