Pura Tanah Lot, Indonesia
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The Pura Tanah Lot, which can be reached on foot at low tide, was built at the beginning of the 16th century by Pedanda Sakti Bau Rauh, a priest who was forced to flee from religious persecution on Java and founded several temples on Bali. There is a shrine dedicated to him in the Pura Tanah Lot. The tallest building within the temple precinct (which normally cannot be entered by non-Hindus) is a five-tiered meru, the abode of the divine trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Another shrine is believed to be inhabited by a sacred snake.

The best view of the temple and of the sunset, for those who cannot get a place at the temple itself or on the invariably crowded viewing terrace, is to be had from a point rather farther away on the cliff-fringed coast.