Hi Everyone, π
This is my post from our last day in Bali. We really stretched ourselves to soak up as much of beauty as we could in one day. Mr Husband has tried to capture as much gorgeousness of the place as he could through his photography. I hope you like them. :))
We started our trip with Pura Puseah Desa Batuan Temple. It’s a village temple of Batuan. It’s an ancinet temple built in 11th century and is famous for its stone carvings and stunning architecture. There were lovely courtyards inside the temple. It looked like a beautiful house of someone – peaceful, charming and very welcoming. π
The next stop was Goa Gajah / Elephant Caves . It is one of the world heritage sites.
And we headed towards the rice terraces ..though the lovely street markets of Bali. π
There it is – Tegallang Rice Paddies. We had to literally treck though these gorgeous rice field to reach to the top. It’s like you keep going from one rice field to the other round and about. So damn tiring , so scary and muddy, super slippery but it was one heck of an experience. Thankfully my shoes behaved themselves. π
After a long tiring treck through the rice paddies, we headed towards the Kintamani temple. And that’s what we crossed, the supper stunning Mount Batur. It’s an active volcano. If we had another day in hand, we would have really trekked through this. In fact, this is the only thing I want to go back to Bali for. π
Next stop was Pura Uluan Danu Batur, Kintamani. This is a temple of Goddess of lakes and rivers.Β Acc to wiki, Pura Batur and the village of Batur were located down in the caldera at the foot of Mount Batur, an active volcano. A violent eruption in 1926 destroyed both the village and the temple, except for the most important shrine, an 11-tiered meru dedicated to Dewi Danu. The villagers moved to the highest and oldest rim of the caldera, where they rebuilt their village and the temple.
We were so tired after this trip that we decided to go back to the hotel. On our way back, I couldn’t stop seeing the lake below and it was very close to Mt Batur. A bit of convincing to Mr Husband and we decided to drive down between the villages and towards Lake Batur. We stopped for coffee and snacks in the middle of nowhere just watching the view and enjoying our time. We were super close to Mount Batur and then came the Lake. You see the pics below. I don’t know how to put the amount of beauty the place had in words. If there were many heavens on earth, one of them would look like this. π
I have one more post to write. I’d share details of the trip on how you can plan yours and of course, Sumara’s phone number. π
Outfit Details :
Top : Zara
Pants : Mango
Shoes : Steve Madden
Bag : Faux Python bought from our hotel
Tiara : Got it custom made from a kiosk in Select City Walk
Sunglasses : Rayban
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