Tourism of bangli regency

THE CEMETERY OF TERUNYAN
The village of Terunyan lays on the Bank of lake Batur or on the west foot of Abang Hill of Kintamani District. It is a village in habited by the of Bali Aga with its unique cultural aspects. This village is attainable only by boat from Kedisan village, crossing along lake Batur in 30 minutes. The name of Terunyan is derived from the words 'Taru' and 'Menyan' the smell of a fragrant tree of incense which grows in that village.

The villages consider that the tree is very important because the corpses of the dead person are just laid down on the open grave under the tree and left the faces open where as their bodies are simply covered by white clothes, sorrounded by 'ancak saji'. This method of burying corpses is called MAPASAH