Mesmerizing Panorama in Tanah Lot Bali

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Tanah Lot, one of the most popular places of interest in Bali for a vacation, is located on the coast of West Bali, at the village of Beraban in the Tabanan Regency. Tanah Lot is one microcosmic temple sitting atop solitary sliver of a floating land which ferocious ocean waves overflow on high tides. Tanah Lot features wooing sunset above a lonely temple and undulating ripples; a mesmerizing panorama which the local spiritual devotion to Balinese sea gods ensures its long-lasting, sublime existence.

Tanah Lot have different characteristic with the other. Main thing is different like:
1. Tanah Lot temple nearly in the see when tide is high. For many things this location was something that is interesting for a vacation.
2. A cave of holly snakes which is located in front of the temple. That people believe they are the guards of the temple.
3. The view of the sunset combine with Tanah Lot temple, being one set that is very enjoyable to watch.
4. Living cultural present a requral ceremony every six month where there where another ceremony at the same week in Pakendungan temple.
5. Tanah Lot is rocky beaches in effort of making nice wave.

An interesting history that elicits about the temple establishment also attaches on Tanah Lot. It has been said and closely believed, Nirartha, a fifteenth century priest, once had ever lived in undisturbed hermitage on the delicate island piece. As his faith accumulated and yielded religious followers to take the same path over worshipping the Balinese sea gods, a temple was then commanded to build under Nirartha's consent. This enchanting shrine drew a new path of pilgrimage undertaken by devout Hindus initially, the very first tourists who witnessed Tanah Lot's beauty. Words permeated along the villages, cities, and even continents, resulting both believers and non-Hindus to pay a visit whenever they arrive in Bali. Fancy tales also grew out of the blue, one of which pointed out how Nirartha's forgotten scarf had transformed into an abiding snake which dwelled within Tanah Lot's cave, though up to now one bizarre snake still lives and hides within the same cave despite hundreds of years have passed by.

Big crowds come to pray here even though the structures that make up the Tanah Lot complex are actually quite unremarkable, consisting of just two pavilions and two black thatched-roof ‘meru’ shrines-one with seven-tiers, dedicated to Sanghyang Widi Wasa, and the other with three-tiers, dedicated to Nirantha.

Like all Bali temples, Pura Tanah Lot celebrates ‘odalan’ once every 210 days. The birthday falls close to the festivals of Galungan and Kuningan, when ancestor spirits are invited to visit their family shrines. Four days after Kuningan, Hindus from all over Bali come laden with rice cakes, fruit, carved palm leaf, and holy water to pray to the Hindu gods and goddesses.

Dauntless temple guests often pat the sacred snake due to a hearsay belief that it will bring good luck unexpectedly. Indulging not only your visual pleasure, Tanah Lot's temple also never ceases its spiritual function, thus a faithful priest stays beside the shrine to bless every visitor with holy water. What matters the most, nevertheless, has always been Tanah Lot's picturesque sunset that is surely not to be missed. The huge offshore rock turns into a seemingly mini Atlantis which the mysterious sea threatens to drown when the full moon sets in. This exquisite setting imbued with imaginaries and divine purpose ranks Tanah Lot indisputably as an unparalleled exotic, ethereal place you will ever encounter in one's relatively short lifetime.