Alas Kedaton is a small forest located in the middle of the rice field in Tabanan regency, west part of Bali. In this forest, there is a temple called Alas Kedaton Temple and owns the natural environments that is looked green with its fresh air and create the calm and holy atmosphere.
Monkey & Flying Fox (Bat) at Alas Kedaton Temple
The monkeys in Alas Kedaton Temple are very tame and free gallivanting in temple yard, so that the calm atmosphere is sometime solved by noise of the monkey, which are playing around and scrambling of food. The monkeys who dwell in Alas Kedaton Temple, there are jump up and down in temple wall, take a bath in moat or there is also hang out in few leaves representing impression view. The monkey like as custodian of temple, which are always ready to greet all visitor who are paying a visit to Alas Kedaton Temple. Beside monkeys, in Kedaton forest also can see the bats and some other animals. At least 24 types of grove plant have been identified in Alas Kedaton Temple.
The main draw of Alas Kedaton is the huge fruit bats (flying foxes) some of them are tame, but others are wild and you can see them perched high up in the trees.
The fruit bats are super friendly and love interacting and climbing on people. These are native to Bali, and they normally live in the treetops here at the monkey sanctuary.
None of the animals are chained or caged, and they seem to be healthy and treated well by the visitors.