Ubud is well known with their gallery of arts both wood
carvings, painting, music and dances. Today parallel with
the development of Ubud as tourist destination those arts
are experiencing fast development in the sense of style, tradition,
and capacity of production. In the past the art might in the
sense of art for art, but today the art for business is growing.
Furthermore with the coming of various designs from outside
Bali has really added the rich pattern and coloration of the
art without leaving it's original character. Most of artists
working on art such as carving, painting and even on handicraft
are more and more intensive in skill and time. Some galleries
and museums in Ubud can be visited any time. The village of
Ubud was probably started around the palace, now Puri Saren,
Ubud. Just around 500 meters to the west of the palace is
the famous holy Campuhan river tributary. There is no sufficient
data to disclose when actually the first settlement was started
which has developed into current Ubud. If we start from the
palace it would be just recently, about 18th century, after
the declining of Klungkung kingdom, when various vassals in
Bali took the semi-independency. Since this time Bali was
splitted into at least 9 main vassals kingdoms, and during
19th century more and more smaller kingdoms were sprang out.
But all those small kingdoms still considered Klungkung palace
as the highest ruler in Bali. In their language Klungkung
palace is their head ( Bali = sesuhunan ). Ubud was probably
one of those small kingdoms, or at least a family of king
of the main vallas who got privilege on the area of Ubud.
The name of Ubud is also used to refer an administrative area
of Kecamatan government. Kecamatan Ubud is under the second
level of government of Gianyar. Gianyar in the past was one
of the main vassal of Klungkung. In second level of government
of Gianyar or also called Kabupaten Gianyar has the smallest
region in Bali, but the most populated area. Gianyar is the
biggest city in Gianyar, and Ubud the second biggest town.
Both Gianyar and Ubud city are the center of Balinese artists,
while Gianyar city is more in the business city, while Ubud
is more in art work. Later Ubud art works have developed also
into a bustling business, even in the tourism business Ubud
has been developing far ahead leaving Gianyar like undeveloped
city. Ubud as a name of a village which is now the city of
Ubud consist of many Banjars for example Banjar Peliatan,
Banjar Tebasaya, Banjar Pengosekan, Banjar Lod Tunduh, Banjar
Tegalalang, Banjar Munut, Banjar Sanggingan and many others.
See from the history, both Gianyar and Ubud are relatively
new sites, compared to Pejeng and Tampak Siring area. Pejeng
and Tampak Siring is an area located between Gianyar city
and Ubud city. See more |
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hotels in Ubud and surrounding artist villages. Ubud
is the town of artists, that is the name of the now
city of Ubud with population more then 20.000 people
bussy bussiness area and a great number of art galleries.
Beside the center of art Ubud also developed into tourist
destination with various travel facilities especially
hotels and various type of accommodations, restaurants
with various cuisines. The location of the hotels are
spreaded over the places from the central 
city
up to the slope of Ayung river, Oos river and Petanu
river. Most of deluxe hotels are located on the slope
of Ayung river, Oos river and Petanu river. While in
the center of Ubud city there are many hotels from non
star to medium class hotels.
