Lempuyang temple in Bali or many tourists called the name with gate of the heaven becomes a phenomenal place in Bali to visit. Many tourists hire a driver to take them to east of Bali to witness a special Lempuyang temple. Hire a driver to this temple now is very easy.
There are many temples in Bali that tourist can visit in Bali. Many temples like Besakih temple, Tirta Empul temple, Tanah Lot temple, Uluwatu temple are very common to visit in Bali. Those temples located not far from the city like Ubud and Kuta. For Balinese, Lempuyang temple is a temple that located on east Bali and requires a long drive to get there. Lempuyang temple also is a sacred temple in Bali. Many of Balinese go to this temple to pray. Because of the distance, many Balinese only come to pray whenever temple has temple celebration once in 210 days.
What makes The Lempuyang temple Gate so famous?
The Lempuyang temple now is very famous place to visit in Bali. As we mentioned tourist called as gate of the heaven temple, this is because the front gate of the temple is facing the tallest volcano in Bali called Mount Agung. The best photo of temple gate with the volcano may see it here. Based on the local stories, their temples get visited by many tourists since 4 years ago. They said it was started by local family who took a photo overlooking the Mount Agung from the gate and posted to social media. Then, few years later many tourist like to do the same things. The eruption of Mount Agung last year that can be seen from this temple also makes this numbers of tourists come to visit. Now days, The Instagram picture is full with the tag of Lempuyang temple and gate of heaven. Join us to get your best photograph
Where is the location of Lempuyang temple?
The Lempuyang temple is located on east Bali. The distance from Denpasar airport is 89 km toward east. It takes about 3 hours from Denpasar. This temple is located in the village of Bunutan, Abang, in Karangasem regency. The Lempuyang temple actually located on the mountain area called Bukit Bisbis. It makes this temple by the local called as temple on the sky because located on 2000m high. You must walk on 1.800 stairways to get to the peak of the temple. But, you do not worry about it, because the place where you take the photo of the gate is located at the very first side of the temple.
How to get to Lempuyang temple?
As we mentioned above, Lempuyang temple has over 1.500 stairways to the Lempuyang Luhur. The Lempuyang temple itself divided into 5 temples. This entire temple located on different level of height at the mountain area called Bukit Bisbis. The Lempuyang Luhur Temple is located at the very peak side of the mountain. You have to take a climb on 1.800 stairways to get there. The second temple from the bottom part of the mountain called Penataran Lempuyang temple. This temple is the one get visited by tourist for the Gate of heaven picture overlooking the Mount Agung. To get to this temple you need to walk not far from the park. At this time, Lempuyang temple has the regulation whether the local or foreigners has to park their vehicles on the Parking stand. Visitor requires to take local Taxi (open deck car) to go to Penataran Lempuyang and must pay each person 120k IDR or less than 2$ USD. This regulation is keeping the temple area from many cars that park very close to temple. Other reason also because the park near by temple is so narrow, very risk to get car slide to the bottom of the valley.
Lempuyang temple tours options
There are many tours we can do combine with Lempuyang Temple. You need a professional tour guide to assist you on doing this. Hire a driver from us is a plus because they are a driver as tour guide.
| NO | ITINERARY |
| 1 | Lempuyang Temple |
| Tirta Gangga (water palace) | |
| Candidasa Beach | |
| Goa Lawah Temple (bat cave temple) | |
| 2 | Lempuyang Temple |
| Tirta Gangga (water palace) | |
| Prasi the Virgin Beach | |
| 3 | Lempuyang Temple |
| Tirta Gangga (water palace) | |
| Besakih Temple | |
Those are the possibility itinerary that you can do in one day trip. Best time to start the tour is early morning. Ask us more about it.
The history of Lempuyang Temple
Lempuyang temple is one of the oldest temples in Bali. The word Lempuyang derived from word “lempu / lampu “which means the Light and the word “yang/hyang” is a word to call God in Bali. So, Lempuyang means The Light of the God temple. This temple believed built in 11th century during Udayana Dynasty with the ruler King and Queen is Udayana and Gunapriya Dharmapatni. It was his priest named Mpu Kuturan who designed a temple with concept of 9 temples to hold the island from cardinal direction. This temple was built to worship God as Sang Hyang Iswara as a protector of the east – the direction of the rising sun. The god of sunshine is also called Dewi Savita or Dewi Savitri. Worship to Sang Hyang Iswara to direct us to get a ray of enlightenment in this life.
Important Information in Lempuyang temple
There are some information you must know before arriving in Lempuyang temple:
- Women during menstruation are forbidden to enter the temple
- Visitor must wear sarong to enter the temple and cover the shoulder for women also tie hair
- Only the prayer allowed to go entering the praying courtyard
- Not allowed make kissing pose on couple photo at the Gate
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