Bali is a island full of temples, each household has one, each village has a couple and a town will have a few dozen. They say there are more temples in Bali than houses. Tourists could visit just the major ones and not be finished in a month.
This temples is from the Royal residence in Mengwi call Pura Tanam Ayun. "Pura" is the Balinese word for temple.
The same temple is surrounded with a moat and garden. Unlike the cathedrals of Europe, the temples in Bali fit in with gardens and have only one level for humans. The building about the ground level is for the gods.
The temples are placed in auspicious places like seacoasts, lakesides and in the mountains where the gods reside. Here is a lakeside temple, we saw so many temples, I've forgotten the name of this one.
There are 8 important seaside temples one for each of the 8 points on the compass, this is a southern seacoast temple, at Tanah Lot.
This temple called Taman Kertha Gosa and has the Museum Semarajaya nearby in Semarapura, East Bali.
These temples have been tourists's attractions for a long time. Here is a sign from better days.
Does anyone use film anymore?
What great photos! I would love to see the temples of Bali some day myself.
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