Natural feature
Mount Agung
Mount Agung, Jungutan, Bebandem, Karangasem Regency, Bali
Sacred stratovolcano and Bali's highest point, revered as the mythic axis of the island and site of a catastrophic twentieth-century eruption.
This guide to Mount Agung in Bali opens at Besakih temple in early 1963, where priests watched smoke curl from the volcano's crater and begged President Sukarno to postpone a once-a-century purification ceremony already under way. He refused, and the ceremony went ahead anyway. Best heard while looking up at the crater from a distance, the way the priests once did.
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