Qualla: Mayura Park https://qualla.com/mayura-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:27 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/w/6/x/mayura-park-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Mayura Park https://qualla.com/mayura-park Mayura Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/mayura-park/ Photo credit Rollan Budi from Vancouver, BC, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0. The name came from a snake problem. When the royal garden built in 1744 by Anak Agung Ngurah Karangasem became overrun with serpents, advisors suggested an elegant solution: bring in peacocks. The birds hunted the snakes, the garden earned a new name - Mayura, Sanskrit for peacock - and the original name, Taman Kelepug, named for the splashing sound of its spring water, faded into local memory. It is a fitting origin story for a place that has always been about transformation. Originally a pleasure garden complementing the Karangasem royal palace in Cakranegara, two kilometers east of Mataram on the island of Lombok, Taman Mayura has served as a court of kings, a battlefield where Dutch colonial ambitions met fierce resistance, and today, a quietly beautiful public park where the past pools visibly in still water.

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/w/6/x/mayura-park-wp/qw6x-mayura-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mayura Park: The Floating Court https://qualla.com/mayura-park/ Photo credit niet bekend / unknown (Fotograaf/photographer). Charls & Van Es & Co. NV (Fotostudio)., CC BY-SA 3.0. At the center of Mayura Park sits a large rectangular pond, and at its heart rises the Bale Kambang - a floating pavilion reached by a narrow causeway. The structure once served as the nerve center of Karangasem rule on Lombok: a place for royal audiences, judicial proceedings, a...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/w/6/x/mayura-park-wp/qw6x-mayura-park-the-floating-court.mp3 0:06 2 full Mayura Park: A Kingdom's Rise and Fracture https://qualla.com/mayura-park/ Photo credit Torbenbrinker, CC BY-SA 3.0. The story of Mayura Park is inseparable from the story of Lombok's Karangasem dynasty. At the beginning of the 19th century, the island was fractured into small competing kingdoms. By 1838, wars of unification had reduced them to two major powers: Sasak Singasari and Sasak Matara...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/w/6/x/mayura-park-wp/qw6x-mayura-park-a-kingdoms-rise-and-fracture.mp3 0:06 3 full Mayura Park: Blood in the Garden https://qualla.com/mayura-park/ Photo credit Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0. The most consequential chapter in Mayura's history was written in 1894, when Dutch colonial forces arrived to exploit tensions between the Balinese rulers and their Sasak subjects. The Dutch expedition, commanded by General P.P.H. van Ham, initially met little resistance. But at ...

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]]> Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/w/6/x/mayura-park-wp/qw6x-mayura-park-blood-in-the-garden.mp3 0:06 4 full Mayura Park: Still Water, Deep Roots https://qualla.com/mayura-park/ Photo credit Mickeyp29, CC BY-SA 4.0. Today Mayura Park operates as a public garden and cultural heritage site, maintained by Indonesia's cultural preservation authority. The Bale Kambang still rises from the pond, its reflection doubling in the still water. Visitors are few compared to Bali's tourist temples, and th...

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