Yeh Pulu
The rock-cut panels at YEH PULU are delightfully engaging, and the site is almost invariably devoid of people. This is partly due to Yeh Pulu’s relative inaccessibility: get off the Ubud-Gianyar bemo at the Yeh Pulu signs just east of Goa Gajah or west of the Bedulu crossroads, and then walk the kilometre south through the hamlet of BATULUMBANG to Yeh Pulu. If you are driving, follow the same signs to where the road peters out, a few hundred metres above the stonecarvings. Chipped away from the sheer rock face, the 25-metre-long series of Yeh Pulu carvings are said to date back to the fourteenth or fifteenth century. They are thought to depict a five-part story and, while the meaning of this story has been -tost, it’s still possible to make out some recurring characters. One early scene shows a man carrying two jars of tuak (palm wine) suspended from a shoulder pole, and another series depicts three stages of a boar hunt.
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