Indonesia Trip: Ogoh-Ogoh Museum and Taman Ayun

Before ending our Bali trip, we managed to visit Ogoh-Ogoh Museum and Taman Ayun. This two places are located close to each other, so you only need to park your car once and then you can walk to visit these two tourist attractions.

The first one is Ogoh-Ogoh Museum. Every year there's a festival name Ogoh-Ogoh which is held prior to Nyepi eve. For that parade, every region prepare their Ogoh-Ogoh, a huge puppet which looks like monster, which made from styrofoam. Even though the Ogoh-Ogoh seems scary, but i honestly amaze with how good these people made the Ogoh-Ogoh and how creative they are to make these 3D version which looks very real. The parade itself have purpose to hinder human from negative element that can disturb human's life. 

Ogoh-Ogoh

the other Ogoh-Ogoh

During the parade, the owner of Ogoh-Ogoh Museum observed the best Ogoh-Ogoh and then he offered to buy the Ogoh-Ogoh and put it in his Museum. Every Ogoh-Ogoh has story and most story coming from the Ramayana and Mahabarat stories. Since the museum owner really loves Ogoh-Ogoh, i can see his excitement when explained us about the story of each Ogoh-Ogoh. 

dad with the museum owner (left)

Besides Ogoh-Ogoh, there's also a huge litter that usually used for Ngaben Ceremony (Funeral Ceremony in Bali).

with the litter for Ngaben ceremony

Museum Ogoh-Ogoh view from Taman Ayun

Finished with Ogoh-Ogoh Museum, we continued our trip to Taman Ayun. Honestly i don't know the connection between the name and the place. Ayun means "swing", so i wondered what things that was swinging in this place. Nevertheless, this place is beautiful, it's like a temple complex, but we can't see it clearly since it covered by wall. All i can do is climbed a stair and see the full view of the complex from there. 

Taman Ayun entrance gate

the door to the temple complex

inside the complex (taken from behind the walls)

another view of the complex

me with the complex as background. I had to climb stairs to get this view.

One of my favourite in here was seeing eggs craft. I believe it wasn't real egg, only wood or stone that was being shaped like egg and then painted in beautiful colors and pattern. The seller said that the price for one egg was IDR100k, well that's quite pricey in my opinion, especially when i brought limited cash at that time :(

the creative eggs

Nearby the exit gate, there was some statues representing "adu ayam" or chicken fight. I believe this was one of the local peoples' favorite show.

chicken fight statues

Finally we've reached the end of my family trip to Bali. It was short but fun. When we're leaving Taman Ayun, we saw a long row of women walking while bringing basket on their head. It's nice to have a chance to see this rare scene :)

XOXO, 

The Tourist