KINTAMANI

The high mountain district of Kintamani takes its name from the ancient ridge-top market village  at the west and of  the Batur Crater. Mountain Batur is a volcano within a crater, the original caldera having  given birth to a child of fire and destruction that now placidly sleeps, the occasional wisp of smoke drifting across slopes of black lava to the serena lakeside. The original village is forcing its inhabitants to resettle on the high cliffs overlooking the caldera.