Penelokan, Indonesia
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views of a fascinating landscape dominated by the volcano (quiescent since 1963) of Gunung Batur and its crater lake.

Penelokan, like the nearby village of Batur, formerly lay immediately below the volcano. The villagers stoically accepted the damage caused by eruptions in 1917 and 1926, but after the major eruption of 1963 (which took place at about the same time as the eruption of Gunung Agung) they resolved to rebuild their village on a safer site on the rim of the crater.

Apart from the magnificent view of Gunung Batur and Lake Batur, Penelokan has no features of particular interest. Such sights as it had were destroyed in the most recent eruptions of the volcano. Among them was a temple containing a shrine dedicated to the goddess Dewi Danu, who is much revered as protective goddess of the water of Lake Batur. As if by a miracle the shrine was spared by the flows of lava and is now in the Pura Ulun Danu Batur.