Tenganan is Bali Aga Village, a center of the original Balinese prior to the Majapahit arrival. Unlike that other well-known Bali Aga centers, Truyan, this is a friendly place and also much more interesting. Tenganan is walled village and consist basically of two rows of identical houses stretching up the gentle slope of the hill. They face each other across a grassy central area where the village public building area located. The Bali Aga is reputed to be exceptionally conservative and resistant to change but even here the modern age has not been totally held at bay. A small forest of Television realism sprout from those oh-so traditional houses! The most straining feature of tenganan, however, is its exceptional neatness - I all looks spick and span and neat as can be and the hills behind provide a beautiful backdrop.

Tenganan is full of strange customs, festivals and practices. Double ikat cloth, know as gringsing, is still woven here where the pattern to be produced is dyed on the individual threads, both warp (lengthwise) and weft (crosswise), before the cloth is woven. This is the only place in Indonesia where the double ikat technique is practiced; all other ikat produced in the archipelago is single ikat where only the warp or weft, never both, is dyed.

A magical cloth known as Kamben gringsing is also woven here - a person wearing it is said to be protected against black magic! A peculiar old-fashioned version of the gamelan known as the gamelan selunding is still played here and girls dance and equally forgotten dance known as the Rejang. At the Usaba Sambah festival once a year around June or July men fight with their fist wrapped in sharp- edged pandanus leaves-similar events occur on the island of Sumba, far to the east in Nusa Tenggara. At this same festival small man-powered Ferris wheels are brought out and the village girls are ceremonially twirled round. There are other Bali Aga Village in the vicinity including Asak where the even more ancient Gamelan Gambang is played.

The Regency is enriched by the most popular Tourist Resort such as :

Besakih Mother Temple
Tirta Gangga Temple
Tenganan Area
Padangbai Area