Welcome to our village, Taman. It is a small village that lies on the altitude of 300 m above sea level, inhabited by about 5,000 people and divided into 7 sub-villages. Most of the people are farmers where they grow rice, corn, peanut, cocoa, coconut and other tropical fruit trees are widely grown here in the village. Our village is very self-sufficient of foods as we grow most of our food supplies.
It is our welcoming statue of Dewi Sri as the goddess of Rice in our Balinese Hindu Religion. We have the statue of Dewi Sri because our village is mainly living on farming. We pray the she always bless our crops and our soil with prosperity and fertility.Ceremonies in Our village:
A hundred percent of our people are Balinese Hindu Dharma followers, and we have many festivals that we have all year around such as Village Temple festivals known as Odalan in the Balinese term and other Major Hindu festivals.
Daily offerings:
We make beautiful daily offerings that we place on our family temple everyday to worship the greatness of the Almighty God so that we always being blessed with peacefulness, harmonious and prosperity.
Most of the people are farmers where they grow rice, corn, peanut, cocoa, coconut and other tropical fruit trees are widely grown here in the village. Our village is very self-sufficient of foods as we grow most of our food supplies.
Rice Farm.
We are surrounded scenic rice paddies, a very peaceful and harmonious panorama that always give us a new energy to continue our daily routine with no stress. Our local farmers have been farming rice for hundreds of years and have been preserving the irrigation system for same period of time. With our great natural irrigation system, we can grow rice all year round. Our farmers have a great respect to natural resources such as water so ceremonies are always conducted periodically. Small shrine is built on their rice field where small beautiful offerings are placed on every Hindu’s holidays.
Fruits Farming
There are wide ranges of tropical fruits that we grow in our village such as Durian, Rambutan, Manggoesten, Pineapple, Mango, Snake Fruits, Papaya, Jack Fruit, Coconut, etc The soil is so fertile and the great tropical climate that we have here in Bali allow our fruits trees keep producing all year round but of course some of them are very seasonal.
Vanilla, Cocoa and Coffee farm.
We also grow lots of Vanilla, Coffee and Cocoa for chocolate in our village.
We welcome you to have a walk around our village to gain knowledge about our farming as well as learning about our local vegetations. We always open the door of our village for everyone to come and visit us and we will be so proud to have your visit to our village of Taman.
Handicrafts.
Besides farming, many of the people are working as craftsmen of wood carving, basket’s weaving and bead’s work. Starting from school children and adults are involved in the work of craftsmanship to support their life and in preserving the art itself to be passed down to the next generation. Patient and hard work are being a part of our daily life and are shown in the people artworks as a reflection of our religion and culture. Beautiful woven objects are made in everyday life like our beautiful daily offerings that is woven from a young coconut leaf. It is a way for us to express our sense of art and beauty and as a way to thank to the God for all the blessings that we have been accepting in our life.
