Desa Petulu:The village is situated at 4 km North of Ubud village. In Petulu you can find thousand of herons or called as 'kokokan' in local language. The birds are called ‘kokokan’ in Bali and in English are called ‘egrets’ or ‘bitterns’ or ‘The White Heron Birds’. These herons leave the village in the morning looking for food and return at night to stay on the various trees at the village. It is predicted that these birds came to the village in the year 965.
The best time to visit this village is around 5 – 6 pm at local time, to see them flying back to their nests on the trees after in the day flying out over the island, the villagers provides some places as view points for visitor to see the birds activities. They provide a book about The Village History and also you can buy soft drink from them.
The villager believes that the white heron birds are bringing joy to them and they live together in harmony.
How to find the place?
enroute from Ubud, jalan raya to direction jalan Hanoman but passing through peliatan and turn to the left from a monument in the intersection ubud-gianyar-peliatan. about 5 km away can be seen icon of kokokan village, small monument of the egrets. from here, turn to the left and hike up about 2 km away.
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