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.