Lake Tamblingan
Caldera lake fringed by rainforest, guarding weathered water-edge temples from a vanished tenth-century village.
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This guide to Lake Tamblingan in Bali starts at a stone temple gate rising straight out of the water, remnant of a village recorded in a bronze inscription from around 900 AD that quietly disappeared. It traces the legend of a wandering holy man whose lake-water cure gave the lake its name, and the shoreline temples survivors built to mark the miracle. Families from four hill villages, Munduk among them, still walk down to tend these same weathered stones.
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