Our last full day in Indonesia. Although there are still many things we would like to visit and even more which are recommended (maybe interesting: Bali is also called the island of the thousand temples. But actually there are many more. If you are driving around you will at least see a new one every 2 to 5 minutes, although you are driving very slow.), there is only one important temple left on our list for Bali: Pura Ulun Danu Bratan. The temple is situated in a huge crater lake on top of the Bratan volcano and is one of the most important water temples in Indonesia. Our main reason to visit the temple was that its architecture was very different from what we have seen from temples so far.

To get there we decided to rent a motorbike once more and started off to our “small” journey. Instead of using the main roads we decided to drive along the endless rice fields. Most streets were in a bad condition but we were managed that easily. Once we found a very beautiful temple right at the entrance to a forest which showed a very similar structure to the one we were on our way to.

About 30 minutes away from the temple we decided to make a quick stop at a local shop run by a small family on top of a hill to drink something and then a second stop closer to the temple at a strawberry farm to eat something small.

The actually very good strawberry gazpacho they sold us.

And the “ok” strawberry pizza.

Luckily the rain starting during the time we were at the restaurant was over when we drove off to the temple again, nevertheless we bought some rain coats at the next market since it was much colder know. One way to the temple took us about 2-3 hours of driving. The temple itself was very pretty but also due to its small size very crowded. Additionally to the temple itself there was a very big park with a lot of beautiful flowers.

Since we saw everything much faster than we expected, we decided to drive to some rice fields offering a great view in the east of us (while Ubud, our starting point was in the west). On our way we found another totally overgrown and very beautiful temple right at the street and surrounded by rice fields.

About half way there a massive monsoon started and we changed our plans and followed some signs to an Organic Farm & Cafe along the worst roads we have ever seen. The path would have been better if there would never have been a road, but the residuals made driving almost impossible.

We were happy when we reached the beautiful little cafe and were welcomed warmly. The Organic farm is actually a village that shows local people how to grow and use western plants and how they further can be used as medicine. Therefore most of the vegetables used for their dishes were grown by themselves. And so it happened that we were sitting in a small Cafe at the end of the world while the monsoon was going on right next to us and we had the really best vegetarian curry (a Tom Kha) we ever had in Indonesia (with probably one of the best breads in the world).

After the rain almost stopped we drove back to Ubud, a drive which took additionally 2 hours. Of course, the monsoon started once more and even heavier and we were more than happy when we finally reached our hotel. Since we were so exhausted and scared to get sick we decided to cancel our reservation at the restaurant and instead stayed at our little villa eating delivered pizza and pasta.