Danau Beratan
Volcanic crater lake with an eleven-tiered temple that appears to float on its waters.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Danau Beratan in Bali opens with a detail printed on every fifty-thousand-rupiah note in the country: the temple that gives this crater lake its fame. It follows the warrior-turned-founder I Gusti Agung Putu, who built a shrine here in 1633 to Dewi Danu, goddess of the lake, and traces how her water divides among hundreds of subak temples feeding Bali's rice terraces downstream. The guide lingers on the lake itself, an extinct volcanic crater over a thousand meters up.
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