Besakih Temple:

Besakih Temple: Bali Mother Temple

Pura Besakih Temple or Bali Mother Temple is the biggest and most important Hindu temple in Bali which the local people call Mother Temple. Is Over a thousand years old perched on the slopes of Mount Agung, at a lofty 1,000 meters. Named after the Dragon God believed to inhabit the mountain, it's said to be the only temple where a Hindu of any caste can worship. Pura Besakih is most fascinating at festival times, but it is grand and impressive whenever you go there. It owns beautiful view from the top of temple area where we can see the wide nature panorama until to the ocean so that's why this temple is many visited by tourists from all over the world. There are 18 complexes of public temple.

Each has its own name. But the word of Besakih as a temple refers to the whole of temple complex in the area. The three main temples dedicated to Shiva, Brahma and Vishnu. For me Pura Besakih Temple is the most important temple complex on the popular tourist island of Bali and is one of the finest and most beautiful temples in south east Asia. It houses the ancestral shrines of all Balinese Hindus. You must visit Pura Besakih Temple early, before the crowd of tourist buses and when the weather is still clear. You are not aloud to go inside the temple with out sarong. Dont forget to buy sarong from outside the temple because inside they ask more...