Tanah Lot Temple | Tabanan
It is located at Braban village, Kediri District, Tabanan Regency. It is about 13 km from the closest sity of Tabanan, about 30 km from the main city of Denpasar and 40 km from Athena Garden Villa. It can be reached by motorcycle and road fairly good.
The spectacular Tanah Lot is possibly the best known and most photographed temple on Bali. The tourist crowed here are phenomenal, especially at sunset, and the commercial hype is terrible. Tanah Lot sunset tours are heavily promoted in all tourist areas. The temple perched on a little rocky islet, look superb whether delicately lit by the dawn light or starkly outlined at sunset. But can it ever live up to the hype!
For the Balinese, Tanah Lot is one of the important and venerated sea temples. Like Pura Uluwatu at the southern end of the island. The name of Tanah Lot Temple in tourism bibliography about Bali almost never absent. The name Tanah Lot is probably from “Tanah Laut” means land in the sea. It is fact that the strong sea abrasion has separated the temple area with Bali mainland, so it looks that the temple nests on a small speck of rock building up on the ocean. Despite the fact that strong hit of sea wave but the site is still standing while the whole sides have disappeared by the raged waves of hundreds of years.










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