Besakih Great Temple
Sprawling six-terraced Hindu temple complex of twenty-three shrines rising up a sacred volcano's slope.
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This guide to Besakih Great Temple in Bali centers on March 1963, when thousands of priests and pilgrims gathered midway through a once-a-century purification rite as Mount Agung erupted above them. You'll hear why the ceremony was pushed to happen early against priestly warnings, what the eruption did to the villages below, and what the Balinese made of what happened to the temple itself while the rite was still underway. The guide also follows the priests who returned sixteen years later to finish what the mountain interrupted.
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