Sangeh Monkey Forest

Sangeh Village,located about 25 km from Denpasar,can be reached within 30 minutes.This area is situated in Sangeh Village,Abiansemal Sub-District,Badung regency.

This Sangeh Forest or sometimes called as Nutmeg Forest is known for its 13 hectares of forets dominates by nutmeg trees and majority of its inhabitants are long-tailed gray apes (Macaca fascicularis )

Based on the mythology,the name of Sangeh consists of two words,namely " Sang " menaing " Man " and "Ngeh " meaning "See ".So Sangeh can be interpreted as a person who " See ".Accoridng to the legend,the forest which is now called Sangeh occured when a princess of the Gods from Mount Agung wanted to move to Mengwi.In the evening the nutmeg forest also wlaked to accompany the Goddes.However on their way,there were people who looked at their movement,then the forest stopped there up to the present.The Goddess then is referred to as having her shrine at Bukit Sari Temple,the temple in the middle of Sangeh Forest while her warriors were cursed into the monkeys who remained faithful to accompany the Goddess in the forest.

Entering this area ,at the Candi Bentar ( the gate ),there is a large of a giant knight,namely,Kumbakarna being attacked by dozens of apes.Thee Statue depicts the story of Ramayana puppet which is very well known in Bali.Around Kumbarna status there are two lion statues.There is a small temple called Melanting Temple in the middle of forest area and large tmple called Pucak sari Temple.At the end of the path to the exit way ,there is a giant sacred nutmeg tree.

These trees have uniqueness and they are called as Lanang and Wadon trees ( male-female trees ) These threes named so,because the nutmeg trees are shaped like male and femalen genital mutually side by side.The Miracle of those trees constitutes an intersting uniqueness in tourist area of Sangeh.