Indonesia - Bali - Tanah Lot Temple

Tanah Lot is famous with the sea side temple. Tanah means earth and Lot (lod) means South or sea. Thus the meaning is something like “temple of the earth in the sea”. Like so many other temples in Bali, Tanah Lot is connected with famous Brahman priest, named Danghyang Nirarta who wondered from Java to Bali in the 16^th century. On one of his journey he decided to sleep in this beautiful spot and then afterwards the Balinese to erect a temple here. This is one of the six most holy temples for all of Bali.

We came when it was high tide with the big waves which hitting the side of the temple made magnificent photographs. When it is low tides you can walk down to the temple and around the temple which have several caves that you can visit and one of them is the snake cave. We didn’t manage to do that at this trip but never the less, the big waves served wonderful views.

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