Puri Saren Palace, Bali, Indonesia

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Puri Saren Agung is the place where Ubud's long tradition of home stays all began, more than 80 years ago, when Bali first started to attract bohemian artists from around the world. Renting one of five traditional stone bungalows in the sumptuous royal courtyard is still quite an experience, and every night the palace comes alive with the sound of Gamelan music as Balinese dances are performed just across the wall from Puri Saren Agung.
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Jl. Raya Ubud No.8, Ubud 80571 Indonesia

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  • 4Yokeys 5:00 PM Oct 2, 2013
    Evening Dance Show
    Puri Saren Palace is slap bang in the middle of Ubud and has an excellent traditional Balinese Dance Show every evening at 7.30pm. The show is performed in one of the palaces open courtyards front of 2 large golden doors. Seats are placed all around the courtyard but the show is very busy and if you are late you may need to sit on the floor. We actually moved to the floor area 1/2 way through the show as it was more comfortable. The show goes on for 2 hours and the toilet facilities in the courtyard are a bit grim so try and go beforehand. Refreshments, including cold beer are on offer by local vendors around the courtyard at quite reasonable prices. If you have children with you, try and pick a seat with a good escape route as 2 hours of traditional Balinese music will try the resolve of even the most patient kid. We took our iPad with headphones for our 11 year old who happily spent the 2nd half of the show watching Scooby Doo. The show itself is a visual treat and very professionally performed. Although a tourist attraction by design the performers take their art very seriously. Make sure you take your camera. I would advise setting it to a sports mode if available as we got some brilliant results with this after much trial and error. In Summary.... This has to be done when visiting Ubud. Try and arrange to visit the rest of the palace in late afternoon/early evening then have an early dinner at one of the many fabulous restaurants around the palace complex before finishing off the evening with the dance show. You wont be disappointed..
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  • 3Abana87 5:00 PM Sep 6, 2020
    More of the same, if you’re into it
    As part of our tour through Ubud, we found ourselves deep in the commercial end of town (by the Monkey Forest) which is where the Puri Saren Royal Palace lies. If you didn’t know this was where the royal family spent some of their time, you wouldn’t be the only one; the palace itself seems fairly innocuous when compared to the likes of the temples and traditional family houses you see casually around Bali. Whilst this may seem to make the royal family that bit more relatable to the average local, in all honesty it was just more of the same that we had come to expect from the temples of Ubud. That was not to say the palace wasn’t an aesthetic marvel, more that the style of Balinese architecture that we had seen throughout our travels in Ubud is itself incredible and this was, at the risk of repeating myself, just more of that. Not an essential stop by any means, but if you want more of that Balinese architectural goodness then you can easily fit it into your schedule.

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