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Taman Werdi Budaya

This large complex houses theatres and galleries. Once a year it hosts The Bali Arts Festival (which runs from mid-June to mid-July). The museum here boasts paintings, a number of barongs and some sculptures. The main focus here is the stages: one outdoor amphitheatre can seat up to 7,000. A much smaller outdoor stage, Tetaling, is the venue for more traditional village-style performances; the Wantilan is an indoor, in-the-round theater (where the audience sits on all three sides of the acting space) and the Ksriranawa stage is a proscenium stage seating 500.

Bali Barat National Park

Bali Barat National Park Nearly the whole of west Balis mountain ridge, 20km west of Lovina, is conserved as Bali Barat national park (Tarnan Nasional Bali Barat), a 760-square-kilo-metre area of savannah, rainforest, monsoon forest and coastal flats, which supports some 160 species of bird, including the endangered Bali starling, Bali's one true endemic creature.
Only a few trails are open to the public, but most visitors come for the spectacular diving and snorkelling off the Pulau Menjangan reefs. Anyone who enters Bali Barat has to go with a guide and must also have a permit, both of wtuch need to be arranged either through the national park headquarters (daily 7am-5pm) in CEKIK, at the Denpasar-Gilimanuk-Singaraja T-junction, 3km south of Gilimanuk, or at the Labuan Lalang jetty (departure point for Pulau Menjangan.

Botanical Gardens
Kebun Raya Eka Karya
This garden is located in Bedugul. Established in 1959, these gardens cover over 120 hectares on Gunung Pohon ( Tree Mountain). The gardens contain a huge collection of trees, nearly 500 varieties of orchid and are rich in bird life.

Reptile and Crocodile Park
Banjar Binong Werdhi Bhuana

Bali Elephant Safari Park
Bali's majestic elephants can be found in the Bali Elephant Safari Park of Desa Taro, north of Ubud. This park offers visitors a chance to get up close and personal with the peaceful giants and also go for a sight-seeing expedition on the backs of these towering peaceful creatures.

Bali Butterfly Park
The Park is ocated in Tabanan area. Also known as Taman Kupu Kupu, the recently opened Bali Butterfly Park is Indonesia's only butterfly park. The park helps in the study, breeding and preservation of many kinds of butterflies from Bali and all over Indonesia.

Bali's Bird Park (Taman Burung Bali)
in Singapadu, near Batubulan, houses over 1000 birds, with rare and beautiful varieties from all over Indonesia. One of the goals of the park is to breed endangered species in captivity in the quest of preservation. This includes the indigenous Bali Mynah. Even those who do not have any particular interest in ornithology will be impressed by the two hectares of lush tropical gardens.




Menjangan Park
Menjangan Island is also a part of the National Park, and is renowned as harboring the best reefs in all of Bali for snorkeling and diving. Boats leave regularly to Menjangan from the port adjacent to the island in the park, and diving trips to here can be arranged from Lovina and other major tourist centers. As for surfing, go no further than Medewi beach, on the southern coastal road leading from Kuta to Tabanan and through to Negara.

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