Skull Garden at Trunyan Graveyard, Bali
Source :Wikimedia* |
Tranquil
and mystical ambiance accompanied our boat trip through the Baturlake to Trunyan graveyard at Kintamani, Bali. There was thin fog covering half of the lake
and the villages around. Unlike Kuta
which crowded with tourists and over exploited Ubud after Eat, Pray, Love
movie, Kintamani area still has less tourist. You need rent car or motorcycle
to reach and explore the area as no proper public transportation available that
bring you to the nearest pier to take the boat.
In front of Trunyan Graveyard |
After
20 minutes boat trip, we arrived at Trunyan graveyard. Do not expect it is a
large cemetery, as it is just a narrow place on the side of the hill with old
banyan trees surrounded the area. Home equipment like chairs, plastic buckets,
cooking wares, and clothes was scattered between the pile of skull and
bones. You can see the fresh corpses and
half rotten corpses inside the bamboo cage decompose there. Don’t worry you
will not smell anything as the banyan trees absorb the minerals from the
corpses.
Different
with other Balinese tradition as Ngaben cremation ritual for the dead person,
villagers in Trunyan practice the ancient pre-Hinduism rituals. They just put
the corpses inside the bamboo cage with all belongings during their lifetime
under the banyan tree. After the corpses decomposed and became bones and
skulls, they move it to another side of the banyan tree. If you brave enough
you can make a picture holding a skull in your hand or you can just have a pose
in front of the pile of skulls and bones. Before you leave you will have to
fill the guest book and donation box for Trunyan village and you will meet some
beggars with kayak outside the graveyard.
The skulls are behind us, our expression were absurd, look at my bang ... it makes my forehead looked awesome |
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*I was too afraid to take the picture by myself , so I took picture of skulls at Trunyan on wikimedia :D
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