My Walking Tour to the Jagatnatha Park

There is a park in the town where I live where I really wanted to visit. It has been closed for the last 2 years since the covid-19 pandemic. Somebody told me that you can enter the park not through the main gate but through the small opening in its east corner. The park is still closed to public but you can enter the park if you use the east corner gate.

I decided to give it a try. I went riding my motorcycle to the park and yes I still found out that the main gate was firmly shut. There was a tourist information center office west of the main gate but it is closed. There's nobody there.

It's not that difficult to find the east opening as it was just a few hundred meters from the main gate. This was my entrance to the park.

Entering the park through the side gate, I can see nobody in the park. There are several buildings which I think is the offices. This is not merely a part but it is designed to be a place for preserving and breeding plants. It's a botanical garden.

I could barely see inside the building probably there are some people there. Those people are probably the staff that maintain this park/botanical garden.

I walked into the bridge that's located just behind the main gate. Under the bridge was a big pond. I get see some lotus growing on the water in the pond. There were also various flower plants around the bridge and grass covering the ground by the pond.

As I walked across the bridge I could see in front of me an ornate traditional split gate. This gate was an entrance to an amphitheater into the temple called Jagatnatha. It's the main temple in my town.

The botanical Garden is built around the Jagatnatha temple.

I continued walking to a narrow path where I could see a lot of trees around me. I noticed that a couple of frangipani trees. There were also some hibiscus flowers. I'm not very good at naming trees in English but there are many familiar trees around me.

As I get closer to the gate the figures in the gate became very clear to my sight. The figures were serpent statues. Serpents in Balinese Hindu religion is symbolizing prosperity. So you would usually see them in front of temple gate.

I had a quick glimpse on the amphitheater beyond the gate. There was nobody there. The place looked to be deserted. There are some dead leaves lying around on the ground.

But overall the garden was clean and well maintained even though there are some trashes on the ground.

I continued my walk on narrow walking path around Jagatnatha Temple. I saw more trees on my way. Those three looked quite green and beautiful. I really like it being here. There was a path that went to a nursery for breeding plants. I didn't go there because I could see from afar at the building was closed.

Finally I ended up in the same building that I first came to see when I entered the park. There was a person in front of the building sitting down and glued his eyes on his phone. He noticed me. I quickly nodded and said hello. He also nodded and smiled.

Well, seemed that it was no problem strolling around the botanical garden without paying any entrance fee. At least until it is reopen for public again.

I arrived in the place where I park my motorcycle in no time. And, that's my quick adventure in the botanical garden in my town.