MAS VILLAGE

Mas Village is located very close to Ubud and is therefore of a similar landscape but Mas is not as developed into the tourism market as Ubud and retains a traditional charm and feel. Mas is famous in Bali as being one of the main arts and crafts villages on the island. Where Ubud is the village of the painters, Mas is the village of the carvers where some of the most incredible wood carvings are produced and have been produced for hundreds of years.

How to Get to Mas Village

​Mas Village is strategically located in the center of a tourist destination and easily reached from any direction with any vehicles. If it is related to Denpasar City position, then Mas Village location is located about 15 km east of the Ubud way. The starting point entrance to Mas Village is Sakah junction with big monumental statue of baby positioning in the middle of road.​

What to Expect at Mas Village

This Artistic countryside has a long history. The result of wood carving art in this village owns the immeasurable and wide dimension like idol for the devoting (arca idol), representative dimension of everyday Balinese social society life (farmer, fisherman, worker, intellectual, merchant etc), the abstract dimension as existing of actor imagination which is listening carefully of reality, dynamics and life philosophy. The villagers are the same as villagers at other tourism countryside in Bali that have also experienced the transformation from agrarian society to the crafting society.

Even nowadays, it continues to service society from commerce service until levying service of souvenirs for overseas and domestic tourists. With the growth of foreign tourists to Bali who are very fond of wood carving crafts, there are also entrepreneurs who open wood carving galleries in this village of Mas, thus making Mas Village the center of the craft of wood carving art which is very charming and very beautiful, at a low price.

Will definitely make the shopping atmosphere very comfortable. As for the facilities offered by each wood craftsman here, they are very complete, and will make you feel at home for a long time to see the wood carvings that are here. So if you visit Mas Village, stop by one of the wood craft places, and there are many facilities that will pamper you, first the parking space provided is quite large so you don't have to worry anymore to find a parking space and also here there are craftsmen who carve wood, so you can see firsthand the process of carving wood from raw materials to become truly beautiful works.

Besides being able to see the process of making wood carving artwork, you are also invited to visit the collection of wood carvings that are done here, from various forms of carving you can see here, besides that here we also accept orders for wood carvings, if you have examples that you want to make, can tell officers here, they'll do it. And for the delivery of wood to your country you usually use cargo services. It's a very pleasant experience to see the center of wood crafts on the island of Bali.

Mas Village History

We can see the history of Mas Ubud village from the history of the journey of Dang Hyang Nirartha, a holy Brahmin from the Majapahit Kingdom who came to Bali with a mission to spread religious teachings. He had stopped at Mas village at the invitation of a knight (arya) named Mas Wilis who came from the Majapahit kingdom who resided in Bali, where another knight from Majapahit also resided in the Balinese village of Mas who previously won the war against the king. Be Dulu was a despot and decided to stay in Bali.

With the arrival of Dang hyang nirartha to Mas village, he gave many advice and directions as well as teachings related to religion, social and culture to Mas Wilis. And then Dang Hyang Nirartha performed the coronation of Mas Wili and gave the title as Prince Manik mas and Dang Hyang Nirartha put a tall stick in honor of that day and the stick grew into a Tangi tree which is said to be alive today, and the tangi tree is in the temple. Pule Mas park, since then this village is called Mas Village. Prince Mas Wilis has a daughter and was married to Dang Hyang Nirartha and has a younger brother named Brahmin Mas, and until now the breed is still in this village of Ubud.

Mas village has been famous since the royal era, where many artists from mas ubud were involved in the construction of the Ubud Royal Palace, and most of the residents work as carvers, and you could say if the blood of carving is ingrained, it's no wonder the resulting carvings are so beautiful very. The first carving art was aimed at making places of worship (temples) with carvings with flower and leaf patterns, and over time it developed into carving tables, chairs and doors as well as statues made of wood. The motifs produced from the typical carvings of this mas village are relics of the previous royal era which were passed down from generation to generation without leaving the characteristics of this mas village carving.

This motif is increasingly progressing so that new variations of motifs appear. In general, there are characteristics of Balinese carving art, namely leaf, flower, and fruit motifs which are a combination of convex and concave shapes and also carvings that take wayang images such as Mahabrata and Ramayana which are used as wall decorations or small statues. Mas Village always makes us stunned by the incomparably beautiful wood carving craft, so that it can attract tourists to visit the beauty of wood carving in this village of Mas, Ubud.

Mas Village Entrance Ticket

No entrance fee required to visit Mas Village.