A 3 days and 2 nights tour to the East of Bali from Lovina, this is a tour of 3 days and 2 nights and to fit in your planning you can be dropped at your next destination (if required).

Below we make a short description of the trip (the route on the map is optional), please feel free to contact us for more detailed information about this trip. The places we mention are options, if you want to visit a other place this can be easily replaced or added to the trip.

Cost
When you provide the guide/driver with a room for the night the price will be IDR 500.000 per day (this price does not include the entrance fees), when you don’t want to provide him with a room in the same hotel please provide him with IDR 300.000 for a room and food (per day) and he will find a place to stay nearby.
You can make this tour with a maximum of 4 people.

Day 1 – From Lovina to Kintamani

We leave Lovina at 9 in the morning and drive east, the first stop is 12 km east of Singaraja with the Pura Meduwe Karang in Kubutambahan. The temple is dedicated to Batara Meduwe Karang (God of the ground). The temple provides divine protection of crops and fertile soil. There are three rows of Ramayana statues at the entrance. The temple is walled and decorated with columns.

After the visit to the temple we drive to Kintamani.

Kintamani
Kintamani is a village and sub-district in the east of Bali. The place is located west of the active volcano Gunung Batur.
In addition to the lake and volcano, Kintamani is home to Pura Ulun Danu Batur, one of the nine most important temples on Bali.
There is so much to see, nature is beautiful and gives a beautiful scenery.
We reach the village of Kintamani with the Batur volcano as its central point. Time for coffee and at a local warung we drink coffee with a nice view of the volcano, often you can also get fresh pisang goreng (fried banana).

After the coffee we drive on and arrive in the busy part of Kintamani where the Batur temple is located. There is a ceremony and the many cars are parked double on the street, trucks which transport the people of the orchestra who are waiting for what is to come and kill the time with playing Balinese music, of course this causes a traffic jam but nobody is bothered by it.

Pura Ulun Danu Batur, this is dedicated to the Goddess of water, Ida Betari Dewi Ulun Danu, for the protection of water resources. From here the irrigation of a large part of the rice fields of the island was regulated.

This is definitely worth a visit, the “chaos”, all the people, the decorations, it is a beautiful scene.

From here we drive on and go down towards the shore of the lake. The Batur lake is the largest lake in Bali. The lake is 7 km long, 2.5 km wide and approximately 60 meters deep.

We decide to go back and drive up to the lookout point and the starting point of the Batur trekking, early in the morning it is always very busy here with people who going to climb the Batur but when we got there in the afternoon there is nobody and it is a peaceful area and the view over the lake is beautiful.

From here we go to the other side of the lake, there is a temple in the water Pura Ulun Batur.

There are many temples in the area, one of them is the Pura Tirta Hulundanu  and we were lucky as there was a big ceremony taking place. Behind or next the Tirta Hulandanu temple there is a huge statue of Dewi Danu in gold, Dewi Danu is the goddess of water,only you cannot reach it by a road, the only way to see the statue is to go there by boat.

We spent the first night in Desa Songan, in Bali Sunrise Villas, a beautiful small-scale complex, and a great location to stay. In the area there is not much to do, but they have a great kitchen, and not too expensive. It is only a small complex, with 3 rooms (as we had it) and 3 more luxurious villas. The room we had consisted of a spacious veranda, a room with a bed, chair and table, and, by extension, a beautiful spacious bathroom. The next morning after a great breakfast and we left early for Candidasa.

Day 2 : Kintamani – Candidasa

Tukad Cepung waterfall
We leave Kintamani and drive along the beautiful landscape to the Tukad Cepung “hidden waterfall”, north east of Bangli. The road leads us to the parking lot from where we have to walk further, a nice path through a green coloured forest, there is a stream of water and it is really a nice walk, then the stairs come and then you need to be more careful especially for the uneven stairs but it is worth it because it is a beautiful place.

When you go down the many stairs, at the end, you step into the water, a shallow water stream, and you have to walk through the water, at the end of the gorge there is a kind of cave, but the strange thing is that the cave is open at the top. You have to crawl underneath a large rock to get to the other side, because of the sunlight shines through the cave it looks really beautiful. It has a magical look and the area is beautiful.

What goes down also must go up again and the climb back was pretty tough, partly due to the wet shoes and the uneven stairs. Almost upstairs there is a warung where you can recover from the climb with coffee and pisang goreng.

Kerta Gosa
Next location on the program is the Kerta Gosa in Klungkung. Kertha Gosa was the courthouse of Klungkung, part of the Semarapura Palace from the time that Klungkung was still a kingdom. Now it is a museum, and gives you an insight of the history of the area.
The Kerta Gosa is part of the royal palace “Puri Semarapura” and has two important meeting rooms – the Bale Kerta Gosa and the Bale Kambang or the “floating pavilion”, which lies in a lotus pond.

The Kerta Gosa complex dates from 1686 when it was built by order of Dewa Agung Jambe. He was the ruler of the kingdom of Klungkung. In the Bale Kerta Gosa there are six chairs and a table, used by the Balinese kings when they had meetings.

The other part of the palace is a museum where many old objects are on display which has historical value, such as a stone throne, an original chair used in Bale Kerta Gosa, old canvases, kriss (ancient knife) and old newspaper collections.
The area has much to endure during the Dutch occupation and the complex has been severely damaged several times in the past by earthquakes, but has always been restored and is now an important monument for the region.
After the visit to Kerta Gosa it is time to head to the coast and visit Goa Lawah and Blue Lagoon Beach.

Goa Lawah
According to the Lontar (the sacred book made of palm leaves), the name “Goa Lawah” was given by the Hindu priest Dang Hyang Nirartha, when he rested on this spiritual journey through Bali. He came in front of the cave where many bats flew off and on and produced a boisterous sound. That is why the cave is called Goa Lawah. Goa means “cave” and Lawah means “bat”.
It is a beautiful temple and of course, the bats cave is the important center of the temple.

Blue Lagoon Beach
After the visit to the temple we visit the Blue Lagoon Beach and it is surprising that the beach at the Goa Lawah is dark and few km along the coast it is light sand beach at Blue Lagoon Beach.

Hotel in Candidasa
There are many hotels in Candidasa the one where we stayed during this trip is not recommendable, this is why the choice for a place to stay is left open.

Day 3 : Candidasa – Lovina

Lempuyang
The next morning, the first destination was the Lempuyang temple. It is a huge and beautiful complex, there are several temples there but the area which is mostly known from the pictures is on the lowest level, there are also higher parts of the temple, but they are not accessible for tourists as it is considered to be a holy place because it is the highest point of the temple and closest to heaven. Once you arrive there you will be directed to a large parking lot, pick up trucks already waiting and they will take you up for 20,000 rp (one-way), it is a considerable drive up the mountain, so walking is not an option, and you cannot go up with your own car, so you have to take this pick up truck. Arriving on the top you need to get ticket and make donation.

At the entrance of the temple is a young man who throws a few drops of holy water at your head, the complex where the tourist is allowed is only a small area, there are 3 high stairs to the higher part of the temple, but you are not allowed to enter that part as a tourist.

This is done because Lempuyang is considered to be one of the most sacred places and just like Tanah Lot also there you are not allowed to enter the temple as a tourist. The main attraction is the Mount Agung which is on the opposite of the temple and the well known “gate to heaven” where you can stand in line to have your picture taken. The real situation can be seen on the picture below, the pictures made there, for where you have to be in line more than one hour when you come there after 9.30 am, are a bit of fake.
Going down with the same pick up truck and when you arrive at the parking lot you can have some coffee from the many vendors who are there selling their merchandise. The next destination is Tirta Ujung also known as the water palace.

Taman Ujung (Ujung water palace)
The Taman Ujung was built by the king of Karangasem, I Gusti Bagus Jelantik, it is still in the possession of the descendants of this king, only they have made it a tourist attraction but it is not a popular place to visit, so it is very quiet and peaceful. But it is a beautiful complex with lotus ponds located in a beautifully landscaped park of tall trees. There is also a higher part but to go there you have to climb a lot of stairs.

It was built in 1901 and was finished in 1921, designed by the Dutch architect van den Hentz, as indicated earlier this area has suffered considerably under Dutch ruling. The palace was largely destroyed by the eruption of the Mount Agung vulcano in 1963 and by an earthquake in 1975, but it was restored to its full glory in later years.

Optional destinations
After the visit to the water palace you can also visit other things like Tirta Gangga or Tirta Empul.

Tirta Gangga
Tirta Gangga is a former royal palace in eastern Bali about 5 kilometres from Karangasem. Named after the sacred river Ganges in India (which relates to the Hinduism).
Tirta Gangga water palace is a maze of pools and fountains surrounded by a lush garden and stone carvings and statues. The one hectare complex was built in 1946 by the late King of Karangsem but was destroyed almost entirely by the eruption of nearby Mount Agung in 1963. It has been rebuild and restored in the years after.

Tirta Empul
Pura Tirta Empul is a Hindu Balinese water temple located close to Tampaksiring. The temple compound consists of a bathing structure, famous for its holy spring water, where Balinese people go to for ritual purification. The temple pond has a spring which gives out fresh water regularly, which Balinese Hindus consider to be holy. Tirta Empul means Holy Spring in Balinese.
Tirta Empul Temple was founded around a large water spring in 962 A.D. during the Warmadewa dynasty (10th-14th centuries).
The temple is dedicated to Vishnu and is believed as a source of clean water for ritual bathing.