Batur

Batur is the name for the lake, mount, temple and village in Kintamani district. Batur lake elevated 1,031 meters above sea level with 1.5 km long time 2.5 km width and up to 70 meters deep. The waters of the lake feed underground rivers.
The present Mount Batur, with elevation of 1717 meters, is in fact the younger and smaller then the former mount, with elevation over 3500 meters, that was erupted thousand years ago. The present mount Batur has also erupted in 1917 that took the lives of 1,000 people, destroying 65,000 homes and 2,500 temples. Batur mountain is the most frequent climbed mountain by tourist. The Batur temple is constructed by black frozen lava stone and consider as the second important temple of Bali after Besakih temple.

Kedisan

A farming and fishing village with a mild and enjoyable weather, the village located on the western shore of the lake Batur, directly beneath of Penelokan. It has market area, extensive gardens of oranges, corn, and peanuts, souvenir shops, bemo terminal, a big parking lot, ticket office, and boat landing from or to Trunyan ot Toyabungkah. The existence of several clean and low budget accommodation around the village make it a good base to climb mount Batur, Abang, going to Trunyan.

Kintamani

It is the name of the sub-district area as well as the name of the village lies the western outer rim of the old Batur caldera. With evevation of 1,500 above the sea level the area is cool and fresh retreat. The sub-district town and the village ceter is noted by big traditional market, and police station located north of Batur temple.

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