Melanting waterfall
Powerful jungle waterfall reached by hundreds of stone steps, its spray too forceful to swim beneath.
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This guide to Melanting waterfall in northern Bali follows the five-hundred-step descent through coffee and clove trees, and the local story of the war god Indra driving his trident into the mountainside to open the water's path. It explains why guides warn visitors to keep back from the base rather than swim beneath it, unlike Bali's gentler falls, and what that force does to cameras and footing at the viewing deck. A small wooden booth waits at the bottom for a token entrance fee.
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