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GETTING AROUND: WEST BALI
By bemo or bus West Bali's southwest coast is served by public transport from Denpasar's
Ubung terminal on Jl Cokroaminoto. Bays are clearly marked and there's an information
booth in the centre. West Bali's northwest coast is served from Singaraja. Southwest and
northwest coast services terminate at Gilimanuk, from where car ferries shuttle across the
Bali Strait to Java.
By car or motorbike As the main link between Denpasar and Java, traffic can be exceed-
ingly heavy on the Tabanan-Gilimanuk road, with a higher than average quota of heavy
trucks and kamikaze bus drivers. Plan for an average speed of 40km/hr and be very careful
of oncoming reckless bus drivers when overtaking.
Tabanan and around
The former capital of the ancient kingdom of Tabanan and now administrative centre of Bali's
most fertile district, TABANAN does little to encourage a protracted stop and with only one
accommodation option in the town, you're better off staying in luxury in Yeh Gangga . A
midsize town with a traffic problem, it is best seen instead as a gateway to some modest sur-
rounding sights or the rice terraces around Gunung Batur and only worth a stop for two little-
visited museums.
To the north of the town, the Bali Butterfly Park and Alas Kedaton Monkey Forest offer
quiet diversions and the visitor programme in the village of Tunjuk provides an insight into
everyday rural living. To the east, reached on a northbound arterial route towards Bedugul
and Singaraja, is the seventeenth-century temple complex at Mengwi , with a side road to the
Sangeh Monkey Forest . No sight is particularly gripping, but with your own transport the
modest sights combine into a decent day - none is really worth the hassle of multiple bemos
otherwise. The big sight in these parts, however, is that on every tour group agenda - the
coastal temple of Pura Tanah Lot south of Tabanan.
 
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