Museum Manusia Purbakala Gilimanuk

West Bali


This part of Bali has been occupied for thousands of years. The Museum Manusia Purbakala Gilimanuk is centred on a family of skeletons, thought to be 4000 years old, which were found locally in 2004. The bare bones, as it were, museum is 500m east of the ferry port.


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