TAMAN AYUN

Taman Ayun

Bali tourist attraction located in the middle middle of the island of Bali which Mengwi royal temple where the temple garden surrounded by a pool swinging. Pura Taman Ayun temple is meant by a beautiful garden

Location
Taman Ayun can be interpreted as a beautiful garden. Pura Taman Ayun surrounded TelagaTaman swing is located in Badung Mengwi village, about 18 km northwest of Denpasar (or 25 minutes if driving).

Pura park has been arranged in such a beautiful swing. senidiri swing in the garden temple built in 1634 by Raja.Mengwi moment I Gusti Agung Anom. in a temple garden there are also swinging Meru - Meru towering and majestic cater better for the royal ancestors and for the Gods that bestana in other Pretending in Bali.

Pura Taman Ayun Temple is a Mother (Paibon) for Mengwi kingdom. Exactly once every six months every "Tuesday Kliwon Medangsia" (based on the calculation of the Saka year) the whole community celebrates Mengwi piodalan for several days worshiping the Lord with all its manifestations.

Pura swing park consists of four different pages, one taller than the other. First page called Jaba which can be achieved only by crossing the only bridge that was in the pool and gate. Once inside there was a small monument to guard the entrance to his right and there is extensive building (Wantilan) where cockfighting chickens are often held there during the ceremony.

On this page, there is also a fountain monument that led to the 9 cardinal directions. As he headed to the next page, on the right road there is a complex of small temple with a temple Luhuring Purnama.

The area to the three temples park swing or page number two, his position is higher than the first page to go to this page, visitors must pass through the second gate. Once inside, the view will be fixed on a building Aling-aling "Bale Pengubengan" decorated with reliefs depict "Dewata Nawa Sanga", (9 Gods guards cardinal direction).

On the east side of this page there is a small temple called Pura Dalem Bekak, whereas in the west corner there is a towering Kulkul Hall.


The area to the four or the last page is the highest and most sacred. Bight of the most central door will be opened at the moment there is ceremonies, where the outside entrance to the statues and other ceremonial equipment. While the Gate is on the left kananya is to get out into the daily activities at the foundation. These pages have some towering Meru with a variety of sizes and shapes. Three pages of this temple symbolizes the three-level world of cosmology, from the most bottom is the place / the human world, to a level that is more sacred place bersemayamnya the gods, and the latter symbolizes the Heaven where God Almighty berstananya. As recounted in the ancient story Adhiparwa, the entire complex of temples depict Mount Mahameru floating in a sea of milk.

This temple was destroyed by the great earthquake that occurred in 1917 and did not get restored until the year 1950. Temple minute and a pillar whose height reaches 16 meters in the courtyard of the temple is built in Java based architecture, while the smaller temple who form the seat of stone fruit amounted to 64 times a megalithic monument in remembrance of ancestral warriors killed in battle.