This is our last day in Bali, before we flyback to Jakarta. After morning breakfast in Hotel we checked out from Novotel Benoa (the last two days we spent in Novotel Benoa) and rush to Tanjung Jepun.
Surprisingly not too much people know where it is, and finally we got the ‘more precise’ info from the guy from Water Sport Company which we got their banana boat a day before. So, based on my recall to Candidasa that I visited more than ten years ago we start the journey. But now, Bali has new bypass road to go the east region, from Nusa Dua straight trough bypass road to Gianyar <> amlapura. This road is reduced your travel time a lot. The bypass road ended on the Junction just before you enter to Kusamba. You drive along the road and you will find a Large Hinddist Temple Goa lawah which build inside a large cave that become a large Bats nets and as people says there are large snakes settled inside the caves as well.
People believe that the caves, bats and snake are sacred. Especially the snakes … there are two occasion that snake found dead in two different occasion, first before ‘Second Bali Bombing’ and the other one before Aceh Tsunami.
You have to follow certain ritual if you want to enter the Temple, and have to be company with their guide, since this is sacred place. You have to wear ‘sarong’ and not permitted to harass everything inside. Women within their menstruate period are not prohibited.
The Temple it self is one of nine “Pura Sat Khayangan” in Bali, whom follow nine direction of swastika. It is a temple that has to be visit after ‘ngaben’ ceremony before continue to Pura Agung Besakih. But the one that interesting us actually is the Bat Cave it self, not the Temple off course.
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