Tegallalang Rice Terrace
Terraced hillside rice paddies fed by a centuries-old priest-run irrigation network, laced with swings and photo decks.
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This guide to the Tegallalang Rice Terrace in Bali starts with an unusual toll: a farmer asking visitors for money just to cross his family's field. From there it traces subak, the thousand-year-old, priest-run irrigation system that decides which fields drink first, and the 2012 UNESCO recognition of Bali's water-temple landscape. Giant wooden swings and bamboo bridges now arc over the same paddies the water temples still bless.
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