Listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, Jatiluwih is the place where you can find magnificent view of rice field terraces, organic farming with Balinese traditional method and 300 hectares of rice fields. Jatiluwih is located in Tabanan regency, 20 km away from Tabanan capital city. The village of Jatiluwih is around 1,500 meters above sea level and offers magnificent views of rice fields stretching to the coast with Mount Batukaru stand majestically on the background.
The name of Jatiluwih comes from 2 Balinese words jati + luwih. Jati means real, and luwih means beautiful or excellent. This name is given to the vast stretch of rice field dug in terraces on the slope of mount Batukaru. The rice terrace forms beautiful sight at all seasons, during the watering, or before planting the rice looks like a tremendous construction big glass with irregular size of frames. When the rice almost reaches harvest time, often the color varied between green, and dark yellow.
And also, Jatiluwih is one of the favourite tourist destination in Bali famous with the beautiful rice terrace unfolding from the foot of the mountain until the coastal side. It is one of places to visit in Bali with the beautiful view as according to its name. The local paddies are planted in this place look typically of the high relative size plant if it is famous with its organic agriculture system due to the location is located in the plateau of Mount Batukaru which is suitable for the agriculture development.
At one of the high place has been built a hall by the villagers where local people can open small restaurant or selling snacks to the visitors. From here is the best point to enjoy the view which location is almost in the middle of the road from the west border and east border of the rice field. At the west border is the original village of Jatiluwih with some still traditional houses made of red clay, and some still selling rice.
If you interested to visit this destination, as well as the other destinations around this area, you can book our full day tour for approximately 10 hours trip – only for $50, because we charge additional fuel charge to these areas. To book the tour you can just simply fill the below booking form or send Whatsapp or Viber messenger to this number : +6285237048168