Desa Singapadu Bali  
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DESA SINGAPADU WITH ITS GOLD AND SILVER

Location
Desa Singapadu is located at Kecamatan Sukawati, Gianyar, 12 km away from Denpasar city, 27 km from Kuta and 37 km from Nusa Dua.By location Singapadu is only 2 km away from Batubulan town, and even today there is no clear border between them. When one drives to Ubud or Gianyar taking short cut to Batuan the road which passing Singapadu. Which atmosphere is still like Bali dozens of years ago with very big banyan tree in the middle of the Desa, although all houses are modern.

Interest of Desa Desa Singapadu
In contrast with Batubulan which offers traditional entertainment such as Barong dance, Kecak Dance, and stone carving, Desa Singapadu offers mixed interests from gold and silver works, animal safaris, Barong dance and Kecak Dance.

Taman Burung or Bali Bird Park
Taman Burung is located on the border of Desa Singapadu and Desa Batubulan which is one of the biggest specialized animal safari in Indonesia, special in collecting various species of birds both local and from other countries. The area of Taman Burung covers two hectares with many aviaries which is constructed as close as possible with birds' original habitat both for terrestrial and on trees. There are hundred of bird species which are mostly endangered species such as the endemic Bali Starling bird, or known as Jalak Bali, Macaw from American continent, Cockatoo from Australia, African heron, the famous Tanzanian flamingo, Pelican, and many others. Local birds are Indonesian cockatoo with its shining feathers, Kasuari, black cockatoo, Hornbill, and Bird or Paradise with the most complete collection in the world which reaches 250 species of exotic birds.

Reptile Park
Neighboring with Taman Burung or Bali Bird Park is the Taman Reptile or Reptile Park. Most of heir collection are various type of snakes from the most poisonous snakes such as cobra to very small and tremendously big Python, medium lizard and big such as the Komodo Dragon.

Bali Zoo Park
Bali Zoo Park offers various big and small animal, located close to the eastern border of Singapadu with Celuk, and adjacent with big gold and silver smith such as Singapadu Art Shop, Krisnayuna, and many others. The small road that connect Singapadu with Batuan are full of art shops or souvenir shops that line up on the right and left sides of the road and in the middle of left hand is strange there is a Zoo Park collecting Lion, Asian Tiger, Squirrels, Deer, Leopard, Panther, and many other animals. The animal lives in a cage, so travelers can observe it at close distance.

That are the main interest of Desa Singapadu beside indeed the traditional smith of gold and silver as meticulous as silver and gold smith at Desa Celuk. Most of the smith are working at home, only small number of them have showroom, unlike in Celuk. They work with their family receiving orders from big art shops or exporters or bring their product to the shops in Ubud, Kuta, Denpasar, Nusa Dua or any places that sell as retail or whole sales.

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Balinese Social Strata
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Balinese society socially is divided into caste layers, which can be easily known from his/her name to which caste he/she belong. In the past the castes were 4 layers including the Paria ( slave ) which now does not exist anymore in Bali. From this social layers various relations have been built in the society such as level of language, which is very strict in the past, but looser today except some words that attribute or refer the action of the other castes during direct communication are still spoken in rule. Within each caste there is exist kinship tradition which is more or less the same as the common Balinese. Just a short note on the castes and various tittles found in Bali can be summed up as follows: Brahmana Caste, today based on genealogy claims themselves as the group that can reach the highest priesthood, the god server of Hindu in Bali. Kesatria, the ruling class during Balinese kingdom especially between 18th to 1945 AD. Some groups within this caste called themselves as the group of Anak Agung, I Gusti, I Dewa, Cokorda and others. Read more