Mount Agung
Sacred stratovolcano and Bali's highest point, revered as the mythic axis of the island and site of a catastrophic twentieth-century eruption.
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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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