Saturday, April 18, 2015

Petitenget Beach, Beautiful Beach and Mystical Temples

Petitenget Beach is a beach located in the village of Kerobokan, North Kuta Sub-district, Badung regency. In addition, this beach is located on the same coastline with beaches of Kuta and Legian beaches, which certainly is not less beautiful landscape with both the beach. Is approximately less than 15 km from Denpasar or 30 minutes away drive from Bali’s Ngurah Rai Airport.

Petitenget Beach is famous for its coastal beauty, clad in white sand. In addition large waves waves suitable for surfing sports place. On this beach you can sunbathe, swim, or just enjoy the panoramic view of the beach while waiting for sunset. The best time to visit this beach is during the morning or when the sun started to come back into the contest, as the quantity of sun rays on the beach is fairly high throughout the day. So it tends to be more crowded beach in the afternoon.


Unlike the beaches of Kuta and Legian beaches are crowded atmosphere, the beach is much quieter and peaceful so that this region seem more exclusive. In Petitenget beach there is also a temple haunted by locals is “Petitenget” temple same with the name of its beaches. Petitengert temple is one of the sacred temple to the Hindu Balinese society apart from Uluwatu temple and temple Lot. Most of the major religious ceremonies Balinese concentrated in the three temples.

Petitenget Temple and Statue
Petitenget itself has meaning “Peti = Container” “tengget = haunted”. It is said that this ancient region known as a haunted area before the temple was founded, each resident about or people who enter this area will suddenly fall ill. This happens because the region according to the population of the area is protected by a Ghost. Therefore built a shrine temple, Pura Petitenget is built around the 15th century.

Until finally this time Petitenget now a tourist area where there are lots of villas and hotels. No more creepy atmosphere but now that there is a beach beauty charm the favorite tourist destinations in Bali. Courtesy of cullinarytravellerz.com

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