Bali Art and Culture - This is one of the most conservative village of the original villages in Bali. This walled village is situated on a valley and surrounded by hills. The villagers claim that their ancestors were the origin people from Bedaulu kingdom. They always keep their custom well with a strict rule in order to protect their purity.

There is a unique legend about how they acquired their land:
In the 14th century, once upon a time the king of Bedaulu (means "He Who Changed His Head") lost his favorite white horse. He ordered all villagers from his kingdom to all directions to look for the horse. A man from Tenganan found the cadaver of the horse. Then the king came to see the cadaver of his lovely horse and he gave him a chance to ask for a reward. The Tenganan man asked all the land where the cadaver was found and all the area in which the carcass of the cadaver could be smelt. The king agreed. Then he sent his official accompanied by the chief of the village to check all the area mentioned. But after many days the official still could smell the polluted air with the odor of the dead horse. At last he decided that the land was enough as he was very tired. He did not think why he always smelt the odor of the cadaver. He did not know that the chief of the village who found the cadaver was a very clever man. Before accompanying the official to check the land, he took a small piece of very smelly remnant of the horse's flesh and put it inside his sarong.
The popular product of Tenganan is the Kamben Songket Geringsing. They color this hand-made cloth with natural color made from woods and stone.