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Welcome to Trunyan, one of the oldest villages n Bali.
It's easy to see why the people of Trunyan are so defensive of their territory. The view across Lake Batur beats any northern italian backdrop. The locals call their caldera's lake 'the sea': at more than 1,600 metres above the sea-level, small, windwhipped waves cut across the depply turquoise water. Opposite the over 1,000-year-old village, pistes of dark-grey lava from previous eruptions - the last in 2000 - drip down the slopes of the still-active Gunung Batur.
Like a handful of other villages scattered around the dark volcanic uplands, Trunyan is inhabited by the Bali Mula - the so-called 'original Balinese' people - a once isolationist, disparate ethnic group that makes up nearly 3 percent of the island's population. But the Bali Mula of Trunyan are finally beginning to feel a little too isolated. Many of Trunyan's elder residents cannot speak Bahasa Indonesia.
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