Tours to Besakih, Bali

The Mother Temple for Balinese Hindus, Besakih, at the foot of majestic Gunung Agung, is a popular daytrip inland for foreign visitors staying on the coast. Come in clear weather, when the mountain’s dramatic form is revealed in all its unearthly splendour and a ceremony is in full swing, and the experience is guaranteed to be a magical one. Crowds of worshippers laded with floral offerings file around the site’s 20 different temples and innumerable subsidiary shrines, spread over a 3-km area and interconnected by ascending terraces, colonnaded walkways, long, steep flights of steps and ceremonial gateways.