We went to a couple of temples and the famous UNESCO world heritage site in Jatiluwih. Beautiful terraces at Jatiluwih, part of UNESCO World Heritage Site Wiwik, who was part of getting the rice terraces of Bali to become a world heritage site, and her students, took us through some of the concepts of water temples: The first temple we went to was a disease temple. It was a supporting temple for the main temple. Its purpose is to cleanse people of illnesses. Legend has it that a king who was sick was healed after getting some water from the area. It was then built to help the surrounding communities get healing A priest will take people through the healing process We went to the main water temple built on the base of the mountain to help farmers not have to go up the mountain to perform rituals We washed our hands, spat out water three times, washed face three times, and the head. This is a sign of giving th...
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