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Where to Buy
The shops lining the main street of Batubulan, a small village northeast of Denpasar on the way to Gianyar, sell most of their carvings to locals. Bargain vigorously. These workshops will carefully pack stone sculpture in wooden frames with shredded paper so it's ready for shipping. The heights of the figures vary from 20 cm to two meters. The average height of a small figure is one meter, weight around 10 kg. Another stone-carving center is Karang, north of Batubulan. Open dawn to dusk, visitors are welcome to visit the workshop of the master carver where you'll see long rows of young apprentices working in small groups chiseling and chipping away at demons, turtles, ogres, nudes, frogs, and all the characters from the Balinese scriptures. For something different, Wayan Cemul, who lives just up the lane from Han Snel in Ubud, makes nontraditional, wild and wonderful paras sculptures. |
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