Wolfgang's photos with the keyword: Pura Melanting

After the visit to the temple and the blessing for the Tirta yatra festival, a group photo of the Balinese extended family came to this festival from far away. Pura Pulaki, Pura Pabean and Pura Melanting are three temples nestled among the rugged mountains and black sands of the North Coast beaches near Pemuteran. As important as they are to Hindu Balinese, each with its own spiritual function, it is the dramatic natural environments that arouse the interest of the outsider.

Pura Melanting temple is one of the temples built commemorating the visit of the Javanese Hindu Priest, Danghyang Nirartha. The temple nestles in the middle of a jungle on a foot hill in Pemuteran, North Bali. Photo was shot yout the holy yard in direction to the temples center. the hanging bast brushwood is part of the holy decoration in the temples yard.

Thousands of worshippers and pilgrims came to the temple complex of Pura Melanting to bring their offers into the temples holy center. The entrance was open for groups of hundred people enter the gate one by one.

With explicit permission of the preacher I was allowed to take this picture, which I also send to the friends in Bali. In the foreground, with folded hands on his forehead, Mayang kneels to my acquaintance, who always assisted me at the Tirta Yatra ceremony. At the blessing of the Pemangku priests, the faithful are spattered with holy water. The Pura Ratu Niang Sakti is a temple where the faithful worship the goddess of wealth, fate and fortune and pray for a happy future.

At the request of my longtime acquaintance Mayang which gave me the unforgettable opportunity to participate in the Tirta yatra festival. Photo was captured on June 30, 2019 at the area of the Pura Melanting Temple near the village of Pemuteran northwest of Bali.