Lake and Gunung Batur

From Ubud we went by motorbike to Lake Batur, a lake at the bottom of a huge caldera of a volcano. The rim of the caldera was full of tourists, more local than foreign one's, because now it's school holiday time, but on the lake it is nice and quiet.
On 1 day we just explored the region and on the 2nd day I climbed up to Mount Batur while Laura relaxed in the hotel.


Luckily to see this panorama, 3 mountains in a line: first one Gunung Batur (1717 meters), than Gunung Abang (2152m) and Gunung Agung, with 3142 meters Bali's highest mountain and it's also a volcano. Often the weather here is foggy or at least Mount Agung is covered with clouds, but after 1 day with rain, this one was really good.


Gunung Batur with 3 craters, the lowest one was active in 2000 and covered a big area with lava.

It's a steep, sometimes very steep, climb up to the top of the volcano which took me 75 minutes. Finally I got to the crater and had a nice view which however was often interrupted by fog patches which crossed the volcano.

The view from the crater towards the lake and around the big caldera.

The panorama from another viewpoint from where it was also possible to see the sea and north coast of Bali.

Another temple on the caldea rim.