Be sure to note the beautiful painted ceiling in the small pavilion in the center of the water feature. Remember to wear long pants or a sarong and sash.

This intact royal temple gives you some idea of the power and grandeur of the Balinese kings (the idland was divided into several small kingdoms) before the Dutch conquered it.

Oh to be a king and embody your royal power by building an elegant stone temple that floats in the center of a grand cut-stone garden pool. At great ceremonies, the temple would fill with subjects bowing to the glory at once divine and temporal embodied in the sacred-king seated in regal splendor on the floating temple.

The painted roofs (restored along the lines of badly deteriorated originals ) on the roofs of the temple and judicial pavilions) are particularly notable.

Not a lot of stairs. No pesky vendors inside. Nor to they impose one of the dreadful mandatory guides. (see my other reviews)

Quite old temple but cherished with all its goodness. You will have to wear their traditional cloth wrapped around your waist (Like a Loonogee) and then enter the temple. I personally enjoyed the gamelan and the peaceful silence inside the temple.