Skulls placed on an altar like podest
Fresh body in its bamboo shet
Welcome on the cemetery in Trunyan
View to the Batur mountaian from the village pier
Temple at the cemetery area
More fishers in their dugout canoes
Return to the Trunyan village
Young girl rowing her fishing boat
Pancering Jagat temple
Pancering Jagat temple
Bali Aga girl with her brother
More Bali Aga kiddies in the village
Inside the store in Trunyan
Trunyan cemetery side village
Other fisherman in his log-boat
View to the northern side of the lake
The straw man and the volcano
Lonely fisherman in the middle of the lake
Trunyan
Hiring the boat to reach the cemetery
Along the villages side way
Kids try to fish
Trunyan village
Ready to go by boat on the lake side
Bali Aga mother and her son
Fishing hut in the Batur lake
Silentness after the rainfall
Michael orders for a lunch
Local Bali Aga people
The volcano at the other side
Pancering Jagat temple in Trunyan
Trunyan in heavy rain
In the Bali Aga village
Bali Aga village called Trunyan
Trunyan village at the Batur lake
Way to Trunyan
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The Trunyan cemetery
Unlike the Balinese people, Trunyan people do not cremate or bury their dead, but just lay them out in bamboo cages to decompose, although strangely there is no stench. A macabre collection of skulls and bones lies on the stone platform and the surrounding areas. The dead bodies don't produce bad smells because of the perfumed scents from a huge Taru Menyan tree growing nearby. Taru means 'tree' and Menyan means 'nice smell'. The name of Trunyan was also derived from these two words. The women from Trunyan are prohibited from going to the cemetery when a dead body is carried there. This follows the deeply rooted belief that if a woman comes to the cemetery while a corpse is being carried there, there will be a disaster in the village, for example a landslide or a volcanic eruption. Such events have been frequent in the village's history, but whether women had anything to do with it is a matter of opinion.
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