Buyan Lake

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.