Banjar Hot Spring

Banjar Hot Spring's guide begins with soldiers of the Japanese occupation in the 1940s, who found a spring the Balinese already treated as sacred and set about carving it into tiered pools modeled on the onsen baths of home. It follows the stone naga dragons still lining the walls, believed in Balinese tradition to guard the water. Reach a hand toward the nearest spout and feel the warm, faintly sulfur-tinged water the soldiers shaped.