Kuburan Terunyan
Open-air lakeside burial ground where bodies rest in bamboo cages beneath a legendary fragrant tree.
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This guide to Kuburan Terunyan in Bali follows the burial custom of the Bali Aga village of Trunyan, where the dead are carried to a lakeside clearing, laid on the earth and covered with a woven bamboo cone instead of being burned or buried. It traces who qualifies for this rite, and what happens when the eleven-body clearing fills and an old cage is opened. A huge old tree stands over the graves, the one the village and lake are said to be named for.
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