Hiking the rim of Batur crater in Kintamani Bali: part II

Carrying on to the end of the main road I came to Penulisan, the location of the 'highest temple in Bali', Pura Puncak Penulisan. The road carries around to the left, buy I went straight and after another kilometer had some choices to make. I picked right and managed to get well lost driving the forested empty lanes. The great thing was though, that after rounding the northern edge of the crater it became sunny, no more grey concrete, hello pine forest. I felt like I had been transported from London in December to California in summer in a matter of minutes. The scenery really is lovely and after backtracking and getting various opinions on where in fact Blandingan was, I got on to the right trail. One funny thing I found was that its really easy to get mixed up navigating this area. We have a giant caldera, inside which sits a volcano, Mt. Batur and a lake on the SE side. After reading from my guide book it would say, 'located on the western side overlooking the lake'.

When you have 3 objects, 2 of which are inside the other one it can be easy to start reading the wrong section. Anyway the scenery around the northern edge of the crater rim, inside and out is very nice and I can imagine the locals enjoying living here.