Temple Lempuyang (Pura Lempuyang Luhur) description and photos - Indonesia: Bali Island (Topic)

Lempuyang Temple (Pura Lempuyang Luhur) description and photos - Indonesia: Bali Island. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Pura Lempuyang Luhur.

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The Lempuyang Temple, or Pura Lempuyang Luhur, is located 10 km east of the village of Tirtagangga, on the slopes of Lempuyang Mountain, which reaches 1058 meters above sea level.

Pura Lempuyang, like the Goa Lawah temple, is considered the most important temple in Bali and is one of the 9 key mountain temples that protect the island from evil spirits. You will have to get to the temple complex first by car along the highway from Amlapura, then along a steep mountain serpentine, and then on foot, overcoming about 1700 steps.

The lower temple is always open to visitors, but the upper temple, at the top of the stairs, is often closed. It is recommended to go upstairs with a Balinese who can be a guide and can arrange with an official of the upper temple to get inside the temple. Sometimes the upper temple is also called the “temple of 1000 steps”, and the road takes more than 2 hours.

The temple complex consists of 7 temples, the most recent of which is located at an altitude of 1058 m. You can get to the upper temple by the so-called "short" way - by steps, and long, when you make an additional large circle, but on the way you visit all 6 temples of this complex.

The first temple is called Pura Agung Lempuyang Tara Pena, three staircases lead to it. Moreover, only the right and left stairs are for visitors, and the middle one is for priests at special ceremonies. Further, visitors will see the Telaga Mas temple, the name of which translates as the temple of the "golden lake", the Telaga Sawang temple (temple of "magic water"). The next temple is Pura Lempuyang Madaya, then there is the Punsak Bisbis and Agung Lempuyang temples,

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