Bali

over 1,054 long-tailed macaques, held sacred locally; 09:00-18:00 with last entry 17:00; IDR 130,000 adult and IDR 100,000 child

17,376.1 hectares inside the UNESCO subak inscription; terraces named in 10th-century inscriptions

UNESCO calls it the largest and most architecturally distinguished regional water temple; 6.9 hectares

the supreme water temple of the subak system, on the crater-lake shore of Mount Batur

1,606.4 hectares, regarded as the origin of the island water and part of the UNESCO inscription

529.1 hectares, identified by UNESCO as the oldest known irrigation system in Bali

1,717 m, inside two concentric calderas that collapsed about 29,300 and 20,150 years ago; last erupted 1999-2000; a UNESCO Global Geopark since 20 September 2012

founded around 962 AD under the Warmadewa dynasty; the central courtyard holds two pools and 30 showers, and the melukat cleansing is still practised

23 interconnected temples on six terraces nearly 1,000 m up the eastern slope of Mount Agung; Hindu worship documented from 1284. In 1963 the lava missed the complex by metres

a 70 m cliff; substantially developed in the 11th century by Empu Kuturan, and the only Balinese sea temple that is also one of the nine directional temples

a Kecak based on the Ramayana is performed daily at 6pm on the cliff-side

a sea temple on an offshore rock, reachable on foot ONLY at low tide; about 500,000 visitors a year, and over a third of the rock was replaced during 1980s Japanese-funded conservation

a rock-cut sanctuary near Ubud, probably 11th century; rediscovered by Dutch archaeologists in 1923, with the bathing place not excavated until the 1950s and seven statues holding pitchers for the seven holy rivers

202.84 km2 across the Badung Strait with four dock landings and around 1,419 hectares of coral; Batu Lumbung is Manta Point

8.6875 km2 and about 5,000 residents, 12 km across the Badung Strait and roughly 30 minutes by speedboat

some 212 hectares of mangrove along the north-eastern side of the island

the named surf breaks off Nusa Lembongan

at least 247 species of coral and 562 species of reef fish in these waters

a 1918 US Army cargo ship torpedoed by I-66 on 11 January 1942 and beached at Tulamben; the 1963 Agung eruption shook it off the beach and it now lies on a sand slope from about 5 m to 30 m, entered from the shore

the park was established in 1941 and its marine area holds over 110 species of coral from 18 families

West Bali National Park is the last stronghold of the critically endangered Bali myna; in June 2011 it received forty birds released from Surabaya Zoo and twenty from Taman Safari Indonesia

promoted as an arts and culture centre and receiving more than three million foreign tourists a year; population 74,800 across 42.38 km2

the residence of Tjokorda Gede Agung Sukawati (1910-1978), the last ruling monarch of Ubud, and one of the first hotels in Ubud when it opened in the 1930s

a one-metre-wide paved track running about 2 kilometres to the top of the Campuhan hill, where two rivers merge

created to help revive tourism after the 2002 bombings and now drawing writers and readers from around the world

the victory of dharma over adharma, on Buda Keliwon Dunggulan; tall bamboo penjor with offerings suspended at the end line the roadsides

when the ancestral spirits return to heaven, closing the cycle with prayers and offerings

24 hours from 6am to 6am of Catur Brata Penyepian - no fire, no work, no travel, no entertainment. The airport closes completely and it applies to visitors too. 2026: 19 March

the FCDO records that Agung continues to show signs of volcanic activity and that climbers are recommended to limit activity around the crater

the FCDO records a rise in the number of scams at tattoo parlours, nail salons and spas in Bali

our own wellness research names Bali and Ubud as the defining archetype of the retreat category and its most acute gap

our own romance research names Bali and South-East Asia as a villa-wedding and honeymoon market served by villa platforms and Bali wedding DMCs

Asia villa leader, established 1998, covering Bali, Phuket, Samui, Sri Lanka, Japan and the Maldives; top Bali villas at the July-August peak are gone by February or March

Bali is the air gateway for eastern Indonesia and Sanglah General Hospital in Denpasar is the serious-care and hyperbaric referral for Komodo and Raja Ampat