A turn-off in Songan takes you on a rough but passable road around the crater floor. Much of the area is very fertile, with bright patches of market garden and quite strange landforms. On the north- western side of the volcano, Toya Mam- peh village (Yeh Mampeh) is surrounded by a vast field of chunky black lava - a legacy of the 1974 eruption. Further on, Pura Bukit Mentik was completely surrounded by molten lava from this eruption, but the temple itself, and its impressive banyan tree, were quite untouched -
it's called the 'Lucky Temple'.
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