Balinese Mud Wrestling with Meal | Immerse in Traditional Culture
Balinese Mud Wrestling with Meal | Immerse in Traditional Culture
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Highlights
Highlights
- 100% Local-led activity showcasing Balinese Culture and fun ways to reconnect with nature
- Lunch or dinner is provided - locally grown Balinese Mud Rice
- Great fun for the whole family!
Details
Details
This is a refreshing and energetic experience of Balinese martial art, which takes place in mud! Get dirty in the rice mud paddies while playing fun games like- muddy tug of war, Kecak body painting with Papuan dance along with Gamelan (Balinese traditional music). This activity is suitable for all ages, and like all martial arts has been made not to train ‘fighters’ but rather to foster a sense of respect and bond with others. It will have you working up a good sweat, whilst simultaneously experiencing this unique sport only found in Bali. This is not just a physical experience, guests will learn a lot about Balinese culture and the history of martial arts.After all the muddy thrills, relax with a mud sauna paired with a coffee scrub and freshly brewed local coffee! The host also prepares soap for you to take a shower afterwards. Once you've freshened up, enjoy a delightful healthy lunch or dinner at Mepantigan's traditional bamboo house. The host only uses natural ingredients and cooks it using firewood.About MepantiganPutu Witsen, a former Taekwondo athlete, developed a new style of martial art, combining Balinese tradition and culture with martial art techniques, he called it Mepantigan. By design, it's a fusion of the local culture (gamelan music and Balinese dance- performing arts), nature (takes place in the rice mud fields) and Pencak Silat (Balinese/ Indonesian martial art). Participants are dressed in Balinese Tridatu (3-coloured) sarong, if one were to translate it, means three powers. White awakens goodness in spirit; red evokes creativity and bravery; whilst black is synonymous with power or protection from bad spirits.Approximate travel times with moderate trafficFrom Ubud - 25minFrom Canggu - 1hFrom Kuta - 50minFrom Seminyak - 55minFrom Uluwatu - 1h30min
What's included
What's included
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Lunch or Dinner and Drinks (depending on timing of experience) - 100% Natural, No MSG and locally sourced.
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Mud Coffee Experience
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Experienced Local Facilitators
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Shower with shampoo and soap
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Towel
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Transport
Where You'll Meet
Where You'll Meet
- Return Transfer from Ubud / Canggu / Kuta / Seminyak / Uluwatu (+S$ 61.12)
Availability
Availability
What You'll Do
What You'll Do
Happy, Healthy & Harmonious Balinese Cultural Experience!
- First:
- The guests will be a welcomed with a dance “ Katos Barong topeng (mask) kelaras (dried banana leaves) ” and a welcome drink plus Balinese traditional snacks.
- Second:
- A short announcement and explanation about practical informations such as where the toilets for the ladies and gentlemen are located. Where the guests can change their clothes. During our activities all of our guests will be given a sarong tridatu which is Mepantigan Bali’s traditional clothing. Mepantigan Bali’s teachers will show our guests how to use the tridatu and help them to put it on. After this there will be a short explanation about what Mepantigan Bali, Katos Kecak Kecos, and Nasi Lumpur.
- Third:
- We will all warm up together with different types of fun Balinese Games in the Coconut Garden’s Amphitheater. So that we will be warmed up and ready before getting muddy! All our activities are performed safely and will be fun, healthy and promote harmony, with professional guidance from our Mepantigan Bali instructors.
- Fourth:
- The activities in the mud of the rice fields will begin. There will be wrestling, fun games and connecting between humans, animals and nature. As a part of this the guests can try to connect with the friendly duck named Bob, by having complete focus on developing harmony with the duck while placing it on the head and thus creating the complete Balinese Mud Experience.
- Fifth:
- After the fun in the mud we are going to treat our guests with a healing Mud Massage, Special Mud Sauna and Mud Coffee or Tea plus Balinese Mud Purification.
- Our Balinese style natural sauna is one of the most unique experiences we offer our guests. It is complete with Massage while enjoying a fresh cup of mud coffee or tea in the mud, Balinese Style Sauna and Warm Herbal Water rinse off mixed with many herbal plants such as turmeric, Pandanus leaf and Ginger. This is very soothing and Relaxing after a lot of exercise with Mepantigan Bali.
- After the Mud sauna we will all go to the natural clean river rinsing off the mud before we all shower in our unique dry banana leaf covered showers. Everyone will get a towel and a bar of soap handed out by our instructors at Mepantigan Bali.
- Sixth:
- Lunch or Dinner is consisting of our Nasi Lumpur buffet at the horse cart. It is a buffet with only natural ingredients, and all are locally grown from Bali. It is possible for guests with both a vegetarian diet and a non vegetarian diet to enjoy our wonderful Nasi Lumpur buffet. Our buffet only serves chicken for meat and the chicken will be prepared separately from the rest of the dishes in the buffet. In order for all of our guests to be able to freely pick which ever they desire from the buffet and feel comfortable eating it. All the food is free from MSG and palm oil. We only use natural coconut oil for our cooking and we cook in a traditional way using firewood instead of a stove. We use banana leaves as plates, bamboo drinking cups and wooden spoons and forks. We are trying to create a complete plastic-free environment at Mepantigan Bali and only use natural materials for our buffet. It is a part of our goal to revive and inspire the original Balinese lifestyle for both our guests and our local community in order to live a natural and sustainable lifestyle.
- ( Time duration is around 2.5 hours, we can start at 4pm leading to dinner or start 10am leading to lunch time )
Meet your host
Meet your host
What others are saying
What others are saying
I highly recommend that everyone experience this.
Here you can learn a healthy body and mind.
Then you are deeply grateful to nature.
This experience enriches everyone.
A natural and unique place
Appetizing mud food and drinks and most importantly the touch of family that makes you feel at home for a long time there
A great place for kids to learn a lot from nature!
cool place, crazy delicious coffee, really cool people!
I highly recommend that everyone experience this.
Here you can learn a healthy body and mind.
Then you are deeply grateful to nature.
This experience enriches everyone.
A natural and unique place
Appetizing mud food and drinks and most importantly the touch of family that makes you feel at home for a long time there
A great place for kids to learn a lot from nature!
cool place, crazy delicious coffee, really cool people!
Cancellation & Rescheduling
Cancellation & Rescheduling
This activity will proceed if there's light drizzle. The host might postpone if there's a thunderstorm or heavy rain.
