---
node: spot_lombok_sade_village_lombok
type: spot
slug: sade_village_lombok
destination: dest_lombok
title: "Sade Village"
lead: "Sade is a Sasak village of thatched houses and raised rice barns kept as a living example of traditional Lombok building. Its floors are still finished with a mix that includes buffalo dung, and guides from the village explain why."
published: 2026-08-17
updated: 2026-08-17
image_file: spot_lombok_sade_village_lombok.jpg
image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Traditional_Sasak_Village_Sade_houses.JPG"
image_author: "Midori"
image_license: "CC BY 3.0"
---

## Overview

The Sasak are Lombok's majority people, and Sade preserves the compound plan their villages used: houses of bamboo and thatch on low stone platforms, and lumbung, the rice barns with bonnet-shaped roofs and a wooden disc on each post that rats cannot climb past. Families still live here. The village is organised for visitors, which is honest enough — a guide meets you, you walk the lanes, and the weaving in the doorways is for sale.

## Highlights

The lumbung are the thing to look at: the silhouette is the most recognisable building form on the island and it is functional, not decorative. Inside a house, ask about the floor, which is packed with a dung-and-clay mix and burnished — it hardens, keeps dust down and repels insects. The backstrap weaving worked on the verandas is the other reason to stop. It is on the main road toward Kuta, so it pairs with a beach day.