Denpasar is a cosmopolitan, modern city that has grown rapidly in the three decades and in many ways it has more in common with other Indonesian regional capitals than with its island hinterland.

Nevertheless, it is worth a visit, even if you prefer to stay in one of the resort areas nearby rather than in the city itself.

Explore Bali’s capital city by visiting :

Bali Ethnographic Museum
its art collection ranges from prehistoric finds to early 20th century art. The museum comprises several buildings and pavilions, including examples of the architecture of both the puri (palace) and pura (temple), with features such as a candi bentar (split gateway) and a kulkul (warning drum) tower.

The main building, to the back as you enter, has a collection of prehistoric pieces downstairs, including stone sarcophagi, and stone and bronze implements. Upstairs are examples of traditional artefacts, including items still in everyday use. Look for the fine wood-and-cane carrying cases for transporting fighting cocks, and tiny carrying cases for fighting crickets.

The northern pavilion is in the style of a Tabanan palace and houses dance costumes and masks, including a sinister Rangda (widow-witch), a healthy-looking Barong (mythical lion-dog creature) and a towering Barong Landung (tall Barong) figure.

The central pavilion, with its spacious veranda, is like the palace pavilions of the Karangasem kingdom (based in Amlapura), where kings held audiences. The exhibits are related to Balinese religion, and include ceremonial objects, calendars and priests’ clothing.

The southern pavilion (Gedung Buleleng) has a varied collection of textiles, including endek (a Balinese method of weaving with pre-dyed threads), double ikat, songket (silver- and gold-threaded cloth, hand-woven using a floating weft technique) and prada (the application of gold leaf or gold or silver thread in traditional Balinese clothes).

Kumbasari market
The central market with large variety of local products and handicraft.

Kumbasari Market is previously called Peken Payuk (pot market), it sell the items from gerabah /pottery, pengedangan, cubek (plate), paso (pail), caratan (water jug), jeding (barrel), penyantokan (mixer), coblong (cup), kekeb (rice cover) and others.

All of these items are the kitchenware and also the items for ceremony. Since this market most popular as a place to sell payuk/pot, hence Kumbasari Market in the past referred as Peken Payuk or pot market.

Satria Birds Market;
This colorful and often noisy market is not for the weak hearted. Come here only if seeing birds and other animals in small, and sometimes cruel cages, do not bother you.

On the way to hotel, continue to visit Batik Gallery in Tohpati, where we could see the Batik making and the collection of the Batik being displayed.