CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Pohgending Kawan it runs 118 km to Pohgending Kawan; allow about 2 h 14 of riding. On the way it passes Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur, Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the S, Lake Batur and back through Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the S.
For about 47 km this is Bali Volcano and Rice Terrace Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Water arrives beside the road and stays for 1 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go. Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did.
This part of Bali lies between Ubud and Tabanan, in the rice and temple country of the central south, where the volcanoes of the north send water down through a network of channels to terraces carved into every slope. The system, called subak, is a thousand-year-old way of sharing water among farmers, managed by local councils with rituals at temples, and UNESCO recognised it as a cultural landscape in 2012. Walk or ride between the fields at sunrise and you see why: the terraces glow green, with white egrets and ducks, and the air smells of wet earth and incense.
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Bali is where the day begins. Next is Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur.
The temple stands on the rim of a caldera, and the caldera is vast. Mount Batur, in the north-east of Bali, sits inside a ring of cliffs some ten kilometres across, left by two huge eruptions tens of thousands of years ago, and in the bowl lies Lake Batur, a crescent of dark water. Pura Ulun Danu Batur is the second most important temple on the island, dedicated to Dewi Danu, the goddess of the lake, whose waters feed the springs and irrigation canals that run down the mountains and water the rice fields of the south. For Balinese farmers, this is where the water comes from, and offerings are made here to keep it flowing.
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Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur comes up about 47 km into the recorded legs. Next is Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the S.
Lake Batur lies in the bowl of an ancient volcanic caldera in the highlands of north-central Bali, and from the rim above it the view is unforgettable. The lake is crescent-shaped, with a young black cone, Mount Batur, rising from the caldera floor at about 1,700 metres, still steaming from vents on its flank. The road runs along the crater rim at Penelokan, a name that means the place to look, and on a clear morning the mist lies in the basin like milk in a bowl.
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At least about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the S. Next is Lake Batur.
Lake Batur fills part of an enormous volcanic caldera in north-east Bali, and the first view of it, from the rim at Penelokan, is one of the island's best. The word Penelokan means a place to look, and the sight justifies it: a huge crescent of dark water about a thousand metres up, with the active cone of Mount Batur rising from the crater floor, and beyond it the bigger bulk of Mount Abang. A bigger sibling, Mount Agung, stands to the east, and at over three thousand metres it is the island's highest and most sacred peak. Batur itself last erupted in the early 2000s, and lava flows from earlier eruptions are still visible as black fields on the slopes.
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Lake Batur, about halfway. Next is back through Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the S.
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back through Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the S sits at 56 km, about halfway. Next is back through Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur write-up.
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back through Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bali.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bali write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Bali closes the day.
Bali → Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur → Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the S is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the S → back through Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur → Bali is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.