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 Munduk it runs 183 km to Munduk; allow about 2 h 57 of riding. On the way it passes Royal Water Temple Pura Taman Ayun, Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed, Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur and back through Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 800 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 37 km this is Bali Volcano and Rice Terrace Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Water is the organising principle of Bali, and the subak is how people organise water. A subak is a farmers' cooperative that manages irrigation for a group of rice fields, with its own rules, its own officials and its own temple, and the system has been working for roughly a thousand years. UNESCO listed the Subak Landscape in 2012, with the temple of Pura Luhur Batukaru on the slopes of Mount Batukaru, the terraced fields around Jatiluwih and the lake temple on Lake Batur among its elements. The philosophy behind it is called Tri Hita Karana, harmony among people, nature and the divine.
Read the complete Subak Landscape of Catur Angga Batukaru write-up.
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Subak Landscape of Catur Angga Batukaru is where the day begins. Next is Royal Water Temple Pura Taman Ayun.
Pura Taman Ayun means the temple of the beautiful garden, and it is a royal temple surrounded by a wide moat. The rajas of Mengwi built it in 1634, as the main temple of their small kingdom, and the broad lawns, canals and pavilions give it the air of a palace garden as much as a shrine. Across the inner courtyard rise the merus, shrines with tiered thatched roofs of black ijuk fibre, some with as many as eleven levels, which represent mountains and the homes of the gods. The temple lies in the middle of a district of rice fields, and it is part of the Subak cultural landscape that UNESCO listed in 2012, because the water for those fields is managed by village irrigation societies, the subak, which have been sharing it for a thousand years.
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Royal Water Temple Pura Taman Ayun comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed.
Bali's rice terraces look natural from a distance, but they are in fact a machine, an old and delicate piece of social engineering that shares water among thousands of farmers. The Pakerisan river runs south from the volcanic highlands near Tampaksiring, and along its length the fields, canals and temples form a landscape that UNESCO listed in 2012 as part of the cultural landscape of Bali, built on the subak system. Ubud, a sizeable town of twenty-eight thousand people, is about ten kilometres to the south-west.
Read the complete Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed write-up.
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about 67 km into the recorded legs you reach Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed. 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.
Read the complete Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur write-up.
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Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur, about halfway. Next is back through Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed.
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Read the complete Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed write-up.
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back through Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed sits at 112 km, about halfway. Next is back through Royal Water Temple Pura Taman Ayun.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Royal Water Temple Pura Taman Ayun write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Royal Water Temple Pura Taman Ayun comes up about 146 km into the recorded legs. Next is Subak Landscape of Catur Angga Batukaru.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Subak Landscape of Catur Angga Batukaru write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Subak Landscape of Catur Angga Batukaru closes the day.
Subak Landscape of Catur Angga Batukaru → Royal Water Temple Pura Taman Ayun is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Royal Water Temple Pura Taman Ayun → Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed → Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur → back through Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed → back through Royal Water Temple Pura Taman Ayun is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Royal Water Temple Pura Taman Ayun → Subak Landscape of Catur Angga Batukaru is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.