Subak.org » Ecotourism http://subak.org Balinese Agriculture Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:04:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Sibetan: Home of Snake Fruit http://subak.org/sibetan-home-of-snake-fruit/ http://subak.org/sibetan-home-of-snake-fruit/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 02:30:55 +0000 admin http://www.subak.org/sibetan-home-of-snake-fruit/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }


Situated on the foot of the majestic and still active Mt Agung, Sibetan is a quiet and traditional village, with cool temperature, and clean air. This village is well known among the Balinese as the “Home of Salak (snake fruit),” Thousands of salak trees from 14 species grow here due to the agreeable climate and extreme fertility of the soil. The Sibetan village owes this extreme soil fertility and abundance of salak plants to the Mount Agung that erupted in 1963, blanketing the village farmlands sending volcanic dust and rocks, making a return to normal agriculture impossible.

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