VILLAGES AROUND DANAU BATUR

The small villages around Danau Batur have Crisp. Establishment on the lake and views on the rounded summits. There are many fish here and the air is thinking? smell onions many farms. You see Galement, peppers, cabbage and garlic growing. Yum!

A hairpin-bend road winds its way down from Penelokan to the shore of Danau Batur. At the lakeside you can go left along the good
road that winds its way through lava fields to Toya Bungkah, the usual base for climbing Gunung Batur.

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Songan

Two kilometres around the lake from Toya Bungkah, Songan is a large and interesting village with market gardens extending to the lake's edge. At the lakeside road end is the temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur, under the edge
of the crater rim.

DETOUR

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'.

Toya Bungkah

The main tourist centre is Toya Bungkah (also known as Tirta), with its hot springs (tirta and toya both mean water).

Toya Bungkah is a simple village, but travellers stay here so they can climb Gunung Batur early in the morning. And if you take a moment to smell the onions (and take in the view of the placid lake) you may just decide.

Kedisan & Buahan

The villages around the southern end of the lake have a few places available to stay in a fairly isolated setting. Buahan is a pleas-
ant 15-minute stroll from Kedisan, and has market gardens going right down to the lakeshore.

Beware of the motorcycle touts who will follow you down the hill from Penelokan, trying out the various guide and hotel scams.

Local hotels ask that you try to call ahead and reserve so that they can have your name on record and thus avoid paying a bounty
to the touts.

Penulisan

Gradually the road climbs along the crater Kintamani beyond rim, and is often shroud in clouds, mist or rain. Penulisan is where The road bends sharply and heads down to wards the north coast.

A viewpoint about 400m south from here offers an amazing panorama over three mountains: Gunung Batur,Gunung Abang and Gunung Agung. If you're coming from the north, this is where you'll first see what all the fuss is about tourism.



Near the road junction, several steep flights of steps lead to Bali's highest temple, Pura Puncak Penulisan (1745m). Inside the highest courtyard are rows of old statues and fragments of sculpture in the open bale. Some of the sculptures date back to the 11th century. The church views are superb: Facing north you can see over the rice terraces clear to the Singaraja coast (weather permitting).

Batur & Kintamani

The villages of Batur and Kintamani now virtually the entire run. Kintamani is famous for its large and colorful market is held every three
Day. It starts very early and 11's all over. If you do not want to go hiking, watch the sunrise Viewed from the road here is very good. The original village of Batur was in Crater, but was destroyed by an eruption of violence 1917. There, thousands of people killed before

the lava flow stopped at the entrance to the Village main temple.

Taking this as a good omen, the village has been rebuilt, but he returned to Gunung Batur 1926th This time, covered the lava flow of everything --
this sanctuary, with the exception of the highest temple.

Fortunately, there have been some evacuations and People have been killed. The village was moved to on the edge of the crater, and the shrine survivor
has also been established and there and in the new temple, Pura Batur

Spiritually, Gunung Batur is the second most important mountain in Bali (only Gu-nung Agung outranks it) so this temple is of considerable importance. It's a great stop as there are always a few colourful mountain characters hanging around. Within the com- plex is a Taoist shrine.

Trunyan & Kuban

The village is sandwiched between Trunyan Lake and the outer edge of the crater. t is inhabited by Bali Aga people.

Trunyan is known for the Pura Pancering Jagat with its 4 meter high statue of the village Guardian spirit, but tourists are not allowed go inside. There are also some traditional Bali Aga-style dwellings and a large banyan
Tree, he spoke to over 1100 years.



A little further Trunyan and accessible only by boat, the cemetery is on the Kuban. The People do not bury or burn Trunyan their dead - they lie, they Bamboo Decompose cages. AA collection of skulls and bones lies on a stone platform. This is a tourist trap for those with macabre tastes.
Boats leave from a jetty near the middle of Kedisan, where there is a ticket office and a car park with a few pushy vendors.

Tourists are not allowed to catch the public boat. The price for a four-hour return trip - Kedisan-Trunyan-Kuban-Toya Bung- kah-Kedisan - depends on the number of passengers, with a maximum of seven .

VILLAGES AROUND GUNUNG BATUR CRATER

VILLAGES AROUND GUNUNG BATUR CRATER

There are several small villages on the ridge. For crater of Gunung Batur. The Penelokan. Area is full of restaurants, bus tour, although some are good. In general, places the west side of the street to enjoy the view
South of Bali, while on the east side view double in the Caldera.

Penelokan
Location Penelokan means "look" - and youwill be surprised by the views of Gunung,Batur and descent to the bottom of the lake the crater. In addition to the view (see large lava flow on Gunung Batur), No. a lot here - a big tour bus of the hotel several ugly Restaurants monolithic peering over the crater and many souvenir sellers desperate.

The road around the edge of a large number overpriced buffet restaurants oriented Busloads of tour groups.

TREKKING FROM KINTAMANI

From the western edge of the outer crater, trails go from Batur and Kintamani down into the main crater, then up Gunung Batur from theE-west side. This route passes close to the rather exciting volcanically active area and may be closed for safety reasons.

TREKKING FROM THE NORTHEAST

The easiest way is north - is whether you can transfer it to the starting point for 4 am. Toya Bungkah take the road north-Songan and take the left fork for about 3.5 kilometers. Follow this small road for another 1.7 kilometers on a poorly marked road on the left side - that rises a mile or two parking spaces. From here on foot length is easy to follow, and should take less than an hour.

TREKKING FROM PURA JATI

A huge car park near the main entrance to Pura Jati makes dies for groups and hikers. The shorter walk is mainly on the lava fields, then go straight (to about two hours) theTop. If you want to see the latest cone to the west of the tip (assuming that the area is safe Visit), go to the first summit - not walk-ing around the active area before sunrise.

Trekking From Toya Bungkah

The basic trek is to start climbing from Toya Bungkah at about 3am, reach the summit for sunrise, and possibly walk right around the main cone, then return to Toya Bungkah.

The route is pretty straightforward - walk out of the village towards Kedisan and turn right just after the car park. After about 30 minutes you'll be on a ridge with a well-defined track; keep going up. It gets pretty steep towards the top and it can be hard walking over the loose volcanic sand.

Allow about two hours to reach the top, which is at the northern edge
of the inner crater.

Climbers have reported that they've easily made the journey without a HPPGB guide, though it shouldn't be tried while dark. The major obstacle is actually avoiding any hassle from the guides themselves.

You can follow the rim to the western side, with a view of the area of the most recent volcanic activity, continue to the southern
edge, and then return to Toya Bungkah by the route you climbed up.

Longer trips go around the recent volcanic cones southwest of the summit. This has the most exciting volcanic activity, with smoking craters, bright-yellow sulphur deposits, and steep slopes of fine black sand. If the activity is too exciting, the area may be closed for trekking, although the summit can still be OK.

Climbing up Gunung Batur, spending a reasonable time on the top and then strolling back down takes four or five hours; for the longer treks around the newer cones, allow around eight hours.

WHEN TO TREK

The western part of the active volcanoes of the main peak, can be fatal, with steam explosion and hot lava, the ground was unstable and sulfur dioxide. Ask for the current conditions,of trekking agencies, see, or visit the website Volcanology and geographic risk.

The active areas are sometimes closed to visitors for safety reasons - if this happens, do not do alone, and not pay extra for a longer hike the main crater, not that you do in the situation.

Think twice about trekking in the rainy season (October to March), because the titles can be muddy and slippery, and the clouds often block the view. Note that the monsoon rains often cause