Bali – beaches, temples and mountains
Our base now on Bali is the coastal town of Sanur. Just the right amount of tourism here for us, plenty of restaurants but without the rowdiness of some of the other resorts on this part of the Island and beautiful beach. Our home is like a palace, traditional balinese house complex and tranquil garden just for us, it’s huge! Up early this morning for a fabulous sunrise.
A visit to two of Bali’s most important temples took us through lush agricultural regions through traditional villages and into the mountains, just beautiful. Besakih temple is the most important one in Bali and Lempuyang the highest altitude temple and number 2 on the importance scale. We reached a 3rd temple, Goa Lawah (more commonly known as bat temple) at dusk, to witness an enormous amount of bats as they prepared to leave the cave for their nightly feeding sortie. It was a frenzied mass of movement. Anyway, we have seen some of the real Bali as well as some of the touristy bits and we have loved Sanur as a beach base. Now it’s time to move on but just a short ferry ride to our next island base of Nusa Lembongan.
Besakih temple
Besakih temple
Besakih temple
Besakih temple
Besakih temple
Besakih temple
Besakih temple
Lempuyang temple
Goa Lawah temple
16 Comments
Miriam
Beautiful. Enjoy Nusa Lembongan.
Phil & Michaela
Thanks Miriam😊
Forestwood
Looks lovely and hope the Aussie tourists you come across are behaving!!
Phil & Michaela
So far they have been very well behaved 😆
Forestwood
That is good to hear. I guess we hear all the bad stories here, as it makes ‘good’ news for the tabloid feeds.
Eha Carr
So agree with Amanda above! You are making me believe in the beauty of Bali again . . . wonderful photography . . . and as yet again, you have managed to pick a beautiful home for your days there . . .
Phil & Michaela
Thank you. I think if you choose carefully you can still see the beauty of Bali😊
Toonsarah
That looks a wonderful place to stay – both the town of Sanur in general and that beautiful house in particular! The temples all look great too, as does the Balinese countryside 🙂
Phil & Michaela
It was an amazing place to stay, it was actually a lot bigger than we needed for us two but our choices were limited due to last minute booking and high season. It had 3 double rooms and 3. bathrooms, all very private it would be very good value for a big family or a bunch of friends😊
restlessjo
You only seem to hear about it being spoilt these days, so thanks for proving otherwise xx
Phil & Michaela
You can find beautiful places if look choose wisely 😊
restlessjo
Like a lot of places xx
grandmisadventures
so beautiful- I can’t get over that incredible temple with the line of steps and statues
Phil & Michaela
It was fantastic, love the temples, the whole Island feels like a temple as every family builds a temple of some sort in their garden. All with black stone from the volcano 😊
WanderingCanadians
Looks like paradise. And that is one spectacular sunrise.
Phil & Michaela
Yes, worth the early start to capture it😊