Batukaru Temple is located in at Wangaya Gede village Penebel District, Tabanan Regency, in the middle of a forest at the foot of Mount Batukaru. It is about 42 km from Denpasar and can be reached by motorcycle as the roads are fairly good , on the slopes of the second highest mountain Batukaru was the state temple when Tabanan was an independent kingdom. Batukaru Temple is one of the six axial temples sacred to all Hindu Balinese. The temple was renovated in 1991, and the grounds have been planted with the most modern civic landscaping, thus robbing it of much of its former mysterious quality. In the central temple courtyard are two large, long pavilions.
The inner courtyard is a small and neat, with three Meru of three, five, and seven tiers in honor of the deified king of Tabanan. It has a seven-roofed Meru to Maha Dewa, the mountain’s guardian spirit, as well as shrines for the three mountain lakes such as: Lake Tamblingan, lake Buyan and Lake Beratan. It’s surrounded by forest, and is often damp and misty. Batukaru temple is a famous tourist's stop for sightseeing to the west Bali destination. The location is on the foot of second highest mountain in Bali that is Batukaru Mountain, from which the temple got the name.
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