Kintamani Tours, Guide to kintamani

When you are in bali, maybe you have plan to visiti kintamani. kintamani is located in bangli, a cold mountain area wich is always covered by fogs before 8.00 am and after 5.00 pm. for year this region has been an important asset for bali tourism industry because of its fascinating view.

Lake Batur

this 58 km distance from denpasar city will greeting you with its nice view set up by mountains range, valley, caldera, lake batur and familiar and hospitality citizen. that is penelokan, the first village you will find before reaching the center part of kintamani district, about 4 km to the north of penelokan.

The journey
Let say you stay in denpasar or kuta area. you can start your journy at 8.00 pm, then go to car or motorbike rental. rent one and start driving to kintamani through denpasar, batubulan, celuk, sukawati, and tampak siring.

Sukawati Market

in your long way to batubulan village you will see various type of stone carving. after that you will pas celuk village, a central part of bali gold and silversmith home industry. make a stop at an art shop and have a look at the exhibiting jewelry's products. in sukawati village, almost all bali's art products are available at the sukawati art market. thi is a general market for people. you may buy something here such as t-shirt, statue, sarong, and so on. tampak siring has another sense of interest for foreigners. in this place the palace of the first presindent is situated. you will need a very special time to explore this palace. after passing tampak siring you will arrive at kintamani. actually kintamani village is a village located at the edge of the mountain caldera. many years a go a big high mount erupted and make a big caldera wich know as lake batur nowadays.

you can imagine how big the caldera should be if an independent lake and mount could exist inside. when you are standing at penelokan village, it means that you are at the edge of the caldera. from here you can see the mount batur and lake batur as the main content of the caldera. the view is really fascinating. dont; miss it from you camera focus.

Going down to the caldera.
in the southeast direction, you will drive to toya bungkah village, a small village at the edge of the lake batur. there are many restaurant and accomodation in this place as well as a place to hire equipments for water sports activities such as fishing, skiing, parasailing, and so on. This village is become a starting point for climbers before climbing the mount. back to penelokan you may got to the north to visit batur temple, the batur temple is one of the big 8 temple in bali. note for you, when you enter the temple you need to wear a sarong. after visiting this temple you may return your journy back to Denpasar.

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