Saturday, March 12, 2011

Tanah Lot

Want to see the sun Sink or Sunset? Tanah Lot, one of the alternatives other than on Kuta Beach. To watch the sunset, the best time to visit should be at 17.00 pm. Located in the Village District Beraban Kediri Tabanan, Bali, Indonesia, about 13 km west of Tabanan, Tanah Lot is one of Bali's famous tourist attraction in addition to Bedugul.
Here there are two temples are situated on a large rock. One is located in the upper crust and the other located on a cliff similar to the Uluwatu Temple. Pura Tanah Lot temple is part of Dang Goda. Pura Tanah Lot sea temple is a place of worship the gods guard the sea.

According to legend, this temple was built by a Brahmin who wander from Java. He is a successful Nirartha Balinese people will strengthen confidence and build Sad Hinduism Goda at the 16th century. At that time the ruler of Tanah Lot, Beraben, jealous of him because his followers began to leave and follow Nirartha. Beraben Nirartha ordered to leave the Tanah Lot. He agreed, and before leaving Tanah Lot with its power to move his stone blocks to the middle of the beach (not into the sea) and built temples there.
He also change the shawl into a snake temple guards. Snake is still there today and scientifically snakes include species of sea snakes that have a characteristic flat tail like a fish, striped yellow and black color has a poison 3 times more powerful than cobra snake. End of the legend states that Beraben 'finally' a follower Nirartha.

Sightseeing lots of land located in the village Beraban Kediri Tabanan District, about 13 km west of Tabanan. North of Tanah Lot Temple there is a temple situated on a cliff that juts into the sea. This cliff temple with the land and shaped like a bridge (curved). Tanah Lot, famous as a beautiful place to watch the sunset (sunset), the tourists usually crowded in the afternoon to see the beauty of the sunset here.

From the parking lot leading to the temple area met many art shops and cafes to eat or just a tavern. Also available is a toilet cleaner that the rent is pretty cheap for domestic tourists bag though.

For tickets, domestic tourists are charged about Rp 20.000,00 while for foreign tourists are charged 2X. So if asked just say Domestic tourists. heheheee

Mileage from Denpasar to Kuta ~ Tanah Lot takes 30 ~ 40 minutes by driving a car.




1 comment:

  1. land lot is a very interesting view of rice fields. everybody liked me that artifacts in Bali, Indonesia

    thanks for sharing thats information :)

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