TANAH LOT

Tanah Lot area is a large area and has beautiful places. It is located in coastal side of Beraban countryside, Kediri sub district in Tabanan Regency. It is one of the popular tourism objects in Bali in which it is situated in 30 km from west side of Denpasar town and about 11 Km from south side of Tabanan town. Viewing from west side, it offers a lovely scenery, especially in the late afternoon, with the temple in dramatic silhouette as the sunset in the Bali Strait since it is near from the beach.
There are always visitors, both domestic and foreign, particularly in the afternoons and during school holidays. Since early, Tanah Lot was a place of praying for Hinduism people which is called Tanah Lot temple, then it grows become a place of tourism which is enough to be visited by the visitors.
The Tanah Lot temple is built on the rock with three acre size and reachable in a few minute by walk, because it is just 20 meters from the coastal lip. In entering the temple, you should walk trough the food-board around the temple. The constructor of this building is representing a transformation of traditional architecture building of Bali, with simple form, natural materials and texture, using decorative manner, tri angga expression (head, body, and foot), human scale and harmonious with nature.
Landscape arranged with taman yadnya and hutan yadnya concepts, besides giving esthetics value and also it can support requirement of praying functionally. Environment’s infrastructure arranged consecutively, so that its function able to work optimally and support religion atmosphere creation. At some nooks of coral reef around Tanah Lot Temple, there are holy tame snakes in black and white colors. According to the local society, they believe that it is as a deity property and as the guard of the temple from the bad influence. Therefore, Tanah lot temple has unique construction of building which is take breath away for the visitor.
the facilities are art shops, restaurants, a rescue facility, and central information. Those facilities we can find when we are entering toward the temple. The buildings are located next to the parking area and they spread around in Tanah Lot area. When we are walking through central road toward the temple, we will find a lot of art shops that sell so many good stuffs for you when you will exit from the area, such as: woodcraft, T-shirt, and other handcrafts.