and the village temple, not to mention all the others scattered across the island: in caves, in rice fields, up mountains and on water. Whoever originally awarded Bali the epithet “Island of the ...

is a significant Hindu temple in Pesinggahan village, Dawan district, Klungkung Regency, Bali, Indonesia. The cave temple is believed to be home to thousands of bats. It would, to the naked eye ...

Pura Ulun Danu Bratan, a Balinese Hindu temple in a lake. Bali’s original animist religion, known as Agama Tirtha (Religion of Water), placed water as the central tenet of Balinese life.