Batur Volcano


Mount Batur is the highest mountain after Gunung Agung to -2, altitude 1717 meters above sea level, located in Kintamani, Bangli district. Mount Batur has erupted many times. Batur volcanic activity in recorded history began in 1804 and the last eruption occurred in 2000. From 1804 to 2005, Mount Batur has erupted more than 26 times and the most violent place on August 2 and ended 21 September 1926. The eruption of Mount Batur that make hot lava flow Batur and stockpiling village Ulun Danu Batur.

Mount Batur region known as the mainstay attractions Bangli district. Perhaps the story in Lontar Susana Bali, Gunung Batur is the peak of Mount Mahameru who moved Batara Pasupati untuik be sthana Betari Danuh (palace goddess Danu). At any given time, all Hindus of various regions in Bali came to deliver to Suwinih Batur to repel pests disaster that befell their fields. By delivering this suminih the Batur volcano region into a fertile area.

Areas that can be highlighted as a tourist attraction is the crater, caldera and the lake. There is a stream of water in a soil that drains the water of Lake Batur, which came into spring in several places in Bali and considered the "holy Tirta"

Contained cultural tourism in the region of Mount Batur is Trunyan. Although the entire population are Hindus Trunyan like most people of Bali, they claim that Hindu Trunyan a Hindu kingdom of Majapahit original heritage. In the north there Trunyan Kuban, a village where the tomb, but the body was not buried or burned, but put under the tree after an elaborate funeral ceremonies. The funeral is filled with the bones, and we may find a fresh corpse.