Sangeh

Sangeh Nature Park, located in the village Sangeh, Badung, Bali, about 20 miles north of Denpasar, on the other side of the road to Pelaga. The appeal of this attraction is a temple located in the middle of the nutmeg tree is called Pura Bukit Sari.
sangehHutan nutmeg tree is a sacred temple area sacred by Indigenous communities Sangeh Village. In the midst of lush green forest there are lots of tame monkeys that often fascinates the tourists.

Formerly, Sangeh apes known to be very wild and often interfere with the visitors. known to be very ignorant, because they often take goods pengunung, but oddly enough will be returned if given a piece of food. But now they have been taught manners, no more and sejahil first
Sangeh like apes also have a kingdom, they live in groups groups, each group each have one leader. and from all these groups have led teringgi. This supreme leader dwelt the most extensive. Place this monkey king there lived a very famous temple The temple is kesakralannya Bulit Sari.
Rule in this kingdom like a real kingdom, the leader must take precedence, for example, marries a female ape, the distribution of food and so forth.

Another story, a small temple shrouded in green moss on the sidelines of the hidden forest of towering nutmeg it. On the back of a temple pillar in the chisel a statue of Garuda, a mythical bird that in the story is told Samudramantana tirta Amrita is looking at the bottom of the ocean, then for his services by Betara Vishnu, was awarded a sip of her, eventually became the vehicle loyal Bathara Garuda Wisnu.
Another legend tells that the forest-dwelling monkey is exhausted soldiers in battle to kill Ravana. Monkeys fell along with the mountains and forests bungkahan used crushing Ravana's body was subsequently settled in the woods.
Another story, also said that a royal princess named Mayangsari Mengwi being in love, got engaged to fail, eventually fled into nearby woods and became a hermit.
In the run that he was not wearing any piece of clothing, so had to wear long hair to cover part of her most forbidden. He failed to fulfill his dream and died mysteriously. Local people believe that the goddess is now a Bethari Mayangsari.

Sangeh overgrown jungle tours nutmeg plant (dipterocarpustrinervis). There are hundreds of years old. It is said that King Mengwi ordered secretly planted a garden with plants Pala. are specially imported from Mount Agung. Secret order to make the park has seen him eventually leak, so the king ordered to stop. and the area was called Sangeh which means "anyone seen"

In addition to the nutmeg tree, there is still a popular plant in the forest Sangeh. Local people call it the Tree Lanang Wadon, because the bottom of the tree is hollow so as to resemble female genitalia, while in the middle of the hole to grow the stem that leads to the bottom that looks like male genitalia. The tree grows right in the front yard and tourist Sangeh actually a tree bark.
In Bali, the tree bark has many features because its wood is often used for special purposes, for example, create a mask that is used as sungsungan.

This region can be found stalls selling a wide range of souvenirs.