Temple Yeh Pulu
Fourteenth-century cliff relief of hermit-carved figures stretching twenty five meters along a riverbank ravine.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Yeh Pulu in Bali follows the 1925 discovery of a hidden riverbank wall, when local boys led a Dutch painter to a stretch of cliff carved centuries earlier, later excavated by archaeologist W. F. Stutterheim. It traces the twenty-five-meter relief of hunters, water carriers and a jeweled woman, carved near the end of the Majapahit era, and the debate over whether hermits or palace artisans made it. You'll also hear the legend of a king who once meditated at this same hermitage.
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