Tanah Lot

This guide to Tanah Lot in Bali opens with a legend from the fifteen hundreds: a village chief named Bendesa Beraban Sakti trying to drive out a wandering Hindu priest, Dang Hyang Nirartha, before his new religion could take hold. You'll hear what the priest did next, and how the confrontation became the founding story behind one of Bali's seven great sea temples. Listen for how the temple's animal guardians factor into the tale that still gets told on this beach.