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 Tegalalang it runs 179 km to Tegalalang; allow about 3 h 22 of riding. The stops in between: Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur, Subak Landscape of Catur Angga Batukaru and back through Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur. 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 24 km this is Bali Volcano and Rice Terrace Loop, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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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Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed 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.
Read the complete Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Subak Landscape of Catur Angga Batukaru.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 86 km into the recorded legs you reach Subak Landscape of Catur Angga Batukaru. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur, late in the day. Next is Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed. That is the ride.
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 → Subak Landscape of Catur Angga Batukaru is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Subak Landscape of Catur Angga Batukaru → back through Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur is 68 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Supreme Water Temple Pura Ulun Danu Batur → Subak Landscape of Pekerisan Watershed is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.