Buyan Lake
Caldera lake once joined to its twin, split by an early nineteenth-century landslide.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Buyan Lake in Bali opens with the legend of a grieving mother whose tears became two lakes, Buyan and its twin Tamblingan, hidden from a cruel king. It traces the real geology beneath that story: a collapsed volcanic caldera that once held a single sheet of water, and an early-1800s landslide that split it in two. Look across the water toward the dark tree line, the strip of forest that now separates the twins.
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