Few snapshots of sunrises from few places in Bali

Sunrise at Sanur

Cloudy Sunrise at Amed

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The village of Songan is situated on the shore of Lake Batur, in Bangli Regency; 12 km from Penelokan or one hour-walk or drive on the single line from Toya Bungkah. Songan is also accessible by boat from Kedisan and Toya Bungkah. Songan is small village with a population around 5,000 people with a couple of streets and beautiful temples next to the lake.

Though Songan is quite off of the tourism map but Songan has many interesting view to offer; the best attraction in Songan is its beautiful natural panorama of the surrounding lake and forest. If you want to capture most beautiful view offered by this village; I suggest you to spend a night there get up early and have a shot or two of Songan superb sunrise. The pictures here will explain the beauty of the Songan sunrise for you.

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29-30 April 2006

Day One - Camping

Arrived Saturday afternoon at Natural Hot Spring (NHS), Toya Bungkah. It was warmly welcome by NHS’s Manager. At the restaurant, they served us welcome drink and had discussion about “Songan Sunrise” for tomorrow morning.

From restaurant we can enjoy a spectacular view of NHS’s swimming pool, Lake Batur and Maunt Abang as backdrop. Actually it has two tier, view was much better from second tier.

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Driving eight kilometers north from Kintamani, you will find Penulisan where Pura Tegeh Koripan lies. Turn left you will head to Singaraja, turn right to Sukawana village.

Follow the northern rim of outer crater from where you can take in the wild and rugged beauty of the crater. The road leads to Pinggan on the crater’s north side, the curves southeast to Songan. Through pine forests coffee, clove, orange, and lemon plantations, you will find Pura Penataran Agung Dalem Balingkang just before Belandingan.

Ceremonial temple festivals at Pura Dalem Balingkang always take place for a nine to eleven day period during the full moon of Kelima (around November) in accordance to the Balinese saka lunar calendar.

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Formerly, before it is in its present location Batur Temple is located on the north eastern slope of Mount Batur – village called Songan since the devastating eruption in 1917 which destroyed everything, including the temple it self. Then initiated by the head of the village along with other prominent figures, they brought the surviving shrines with them and rebuilt Batur Temple to the higher place at Kalanganyar or its present location.

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