A quick google search of Pura Tanah Lot will yield many superlatives—most sacred, most important, most beautiful—but only one can be considered fact: the Hindu temple of Tanah Lot is (one of) the most famous temple(s) on the island of Bali.As one of the seven sea temples set around the Balinese coast it is unique because of its offshore setting; the rock’s original name, Tengah Lod, means “land in the sea”.
Pura Tanah Lot is accessible only by low tide, and is said to have poisonous sea snakes living in the rock’s hollows below the ocean’s surface.
An interesting fact about Tanah Lot is that an entire third of it is artificial rock. Centuries of erosion did serious damage to the temple’s rock face, and in 1980 the area around and inside the temple was deemed dangerous to visitors. When Japan loaned 800 billion rupiahs (about 130 million USD) to help with the conservation of various temples and other important locations around Bali, Tanah Lot got the makeover it sorely needed.
Pura Batu Bolong is a small shrine nearby, set upon a dragon’s neck of land reaching out to the sea, which has an archway (Bolong means hollow), and makes it significantly more picturesque, in my opinion.Doesn’t it look like the head and neck of a dragon?
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