Tabanan, Bali, Jan. 4 -- The Bali Botanical Garden in Bedugul, Tabanan District, welcomed around 20,000 visitors during the Christmas 2025 and New Year 2026 holiday season, a sharp rise from the 12,000 visitors logged the previous year.

"The daily average of visits ranged between 3,000 and 5,000 people," said I Dewa Putu Pasnadi Putra, the garden's manager, in Tabanan on Sunday.

He noted that visitor traffic peaked at 10,000 people on January 1, 2026, representing a 77 percent increase compared with the New Year's holiday in 2025.

Putra attributed the surge in visitors to a series of holiday programs and public activities hosted by the garden, including a year-end bazaar showcasing micro, small, and medium enterprise (MSME) products fr...