{"id":5463,"date":"2026-09-14T12:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/?p=5463"},"modified":"2026-09-14T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:33:24","slug":"ulun-danu-beratan-bali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/fr\/ulun-danu-beratan-bali\/","title":{"rendered":"Pura Ulun Danu Beratan: Bali&#8217;s Temple Behind the 50,000 Rupiah Note"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aob-custom-article\">\n\n<!-- CONTRAST FIX: known sitewide bug, .cta-btn.outline renders near-invisible\n     white text on the cream .cta-block background. Scoped fix per house\n     convention, same as recent topics. -->\n<style>\n#aob-custom-article .cta-btn.outline { color: #2c1810 !important; }\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"definition-box\">\n  <p>Pura Ulun Danu Beratan is Bali&#8217;s water temple on the shore of Lake Beratan in the Bedugul highlands, built around 1633 by a king of the Mengwi kingdom to honor Dewi Danu, the Balinese goddess of lakes and rivers. Its cluster of pagoda-roofed meru shrines, reflected in the lake behind them, is one of the most reproduced images to come out of Bali, familiar to millions of Indonesians as the temple pictured on the Rp50,000 banknote long before most of them ever visit it in person.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"highlight-inline\">\n  <p><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n  <ul class=\"quality-list\">\n    <li>Pura Ulun Danu Beratan sits on Lake Beratan in Bedugul, Baturiti district, Tabanan Regency, at roughly 1,239 meters above sea level.<\/li>\n    <li>The temple was founded around 1633 to 1634 by King I Gusti Agung Putu of the Mengwi kingdom, though the site&#8217;s religious use is thought to predate the built structure.<\/li>\n    <li>It is dedicated primarily to Dewi Danu, the lake goddess, alongside shrines for Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma, reflecting Bali&#8217;s Hindu trinity.<\/li>\n    <li>Its lakeside meru towers, appearing to float when the water rises, have appeared on the Indonesian Rp50,000 banknote and are one of the most photographed images in Bali.<\/li>\n    <li>Lake Beratan is a crater lake sharing the Bratan caldera with Lake Buyan and Lake Tamblingan, and its water feeds Subak irrigation across the Tabanan region.<\/li>\n    <li>It is easily confused with Pura Ulun Danu Batur, a separate temple on a separate lake in Kintamani, Bangli Regency, also dedicated to a water goddess.<\/li>\n  <\/ul>\n  <p><em><strong>Definition:<\/strong> Pura Ulun Danu Beratan is the water temple complex on Lake Beratan in Bali&#8217;s Bedugul highlands, dedicated to Dewi Danu and famous as the temple pictured on the Rp50,000 note, now also the subject of an original palette knife painting in Arts of Bali&#8217;s Seminyak collection.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Ask a Balinese person what the temple on the fifty-thousand rupiah note is called and most will know instantly, even if they have never stood on its shoreline. Pura Ulun Danu Beratan has that particular kind of fame, the sort that gets absorbed through decades of pocket change and school textbooks rather than a single viral photo. Its silhouette, a cluster of thatched meru towers rising from still water against a backdrop of misty highland forest, has become shorthand for a certain image of Bali itself: cool, green, and quietly sacred, a long way from the beach clubs of the south coast.<\/p>\n\n<p>This guide covers what Pura Ulun Danu Beratan actually is, who founded it and when, which deities it honors, how Lake Beratan connects to the rice fields much further downhill, and why it is so often mixed up with a different temple on a different lake. It also introduces the ceremonial procession painting Arts of Bali currently has in its collection, an original palette knife piece built around this exact view. For the broader network of deities and symbols that recur across the island&#8217;s temples and paintings, see our guide to <a href=\"\/fr\/balinese-art-symbols\/\">Balinese art symbols<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<!-- IMAGE HERO | product 5443 \"Serenity at Lake Beratan: Pura Ulun Danu Procession\", main image. Portrait, dims CONFIRMED 1600x2132 via live file check 14 Sep 2026. -->\n<div class=\"img-block portrait\">\n  <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Serenity-at-Lake-Beratan-Pura-Ulun-Danu-Procession-Palette-Painting.webp\" alt=\"Palette knife painting of a ceremonial boat crossing Lake Beratan toward Pura Ulun Danu temple, Bali\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2132\" loading=\"eager\" title=\"- Arts of Bali\">\n  <div class=\"img-meta\">\n    <p class=\"caption\">Serenity at Lake Beratan: Pura Ulun Danu Procession, 70&times;90cm, Rp3,500,000, hand-painted palette knife on cotton canvas. <a href=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/fr\/galerie\/serenity-at-lake-beratan-pura-ulun-danu-procession-palette-painting\/\" title=\"Serenity at Lake Beratan product page\">View this piece &amp; price<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">The Basics<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">What Is Pura Ulun Danu Beratan?<\/h2>\n\n<p>Pura Ulun Danu Beratan (also spelled Bratan) is a Hindu water temple built directly on the shore of Lake Beratan, in the cool highlands of Bedugul, central Bali. &#8220;Ulun Danu&#8221; translates roughly to &#8220;head&#8221; or &#8220;source of the lake,&#8221; a name shared by several Balinese water temples built at the edge of a crater lake, since each is considered the point where a lake&#8217;s spiritual and irrigating power originates. The temple&#8217;s best-known feature is its cluster of meru, the tiered, pagoda-shaped shrine towers found throughout Balinese temple architecture, rising from a strip of land that juts into the lake so that, when the water level climbs during the rainy season, the whole complex appears to float on the surface.<\/p>\n\n<p>That floating silhouette is the reason most Indonesians already know this temple&#8217;s face without ever having visited it: it has appeared on the Rp50,000 banknote, making it one of only a handful of Balinese landmarks reproduced in the wallet of nearly every citizen of the country. Long before Instagram made certain Balinese views famous overnight, currency did the same job for Ulun Danu Beratan, slowly, over decades.<\/p>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">L'histoire<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">A Temple Built for the Lake: History and Founding<\/h2>\n\n<p>Most sources date the temple&#8217;s founding to around 1633, sometimes given as 1634, credited to King I Gusti Agung Putu of the Mengwi kingdom, one of the historic royal houses of Bali. The site&#8217;s religious significance appears to predate that construction date. Some accounts point to megalithic-era worship at the location, with artifacts including a stone sarcophagus estimated at roughly 2,500 years old found nearby, suggesting the lake was treated as sacred ground long before any temple was built to formalize that reverence.<\/p>\n\n<p>The temple that stands today blends architectural traditions rather than following a single style. Alongside its Hindu meru towers, the complex includes a Buddhist stupa, a detail that reflects the historical layering of Hindu and Buddhist practice across Bali before Balinese Hinduism settled into its current form. That mix is unusual enough that it is worth pointing out explicitly: Ulun Danu Beratan is not a purely Shaivite or purely Buddhist site, but a working example of how the two traditions sit side by side in Balinese religious life.<\/p>\n\n<!-- IMAGE 2 | product 5443, image batur-2, angled view of the same canvas. 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A dedicated shrine within the complex, commonly identified as Pura Dalem Purwa, honors her directly, and she remains the figure most closely associated with the site in everyday conversation, the same way she is closely associated with the very different Lake Batur further east on the island.<\/p>\n\n<p>Beyond Dewi Danu, the complex also houses separate meru shrines for members of Bali&#8217;s Hindu trinity, Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, expressed through the Trimurti color scheme of red, black, and white respectively. Sources broadly agree that a tall, eleven-tiered meru is the complex&#8217;s most visually dominant structure and the one most often photographed, but they do not agree on precisely which deity it honors: some describe it as dedicated to Vishnu, others to Shiva together with his consort Parvathi. Rather than pick a side neither we nor most visitor guides can verify independently, it is worth stating plainly that the sources conflict on this one detail, while agreeing on everything else: Dewi Danu as the lake&#8217;s presiding goddess, and Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva each honored through their own shrine within the same waterside complex.<\/p>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">Water and Rice<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">Lake Beratan and the Rice Fields It Feeds<\/h2>\n\n<p>Lake Beratan is a crater lake, part of the Bratan caldera it shares with Lake Buyan and Lake Tamblingan, and by most measures it is Bali&#8217;s second-largest lake. Its water does not stay in the highlands. Like Bali&#8217;s other crater lakes, Beratan feeds into the island&#8217;s Subak irrigation network, the centuries-old cooperative system, recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage cultural landscape in 2012, that channels mountain water down through terraced rice fields across the Tabanan region below.<\/p>\n\n<p>That water-to-rice relationship is the same logic behind the pairing of Dewi Danu with Dewi Sri, Bali&#8217;s rice goddess, that our guide to <a href=\"\/fr\/dewi-sri-bali\/\">Dewi Sri<\/a> describes in more detail. That earlier guide focuses on Pura Ulun Danu Batur, on Lake Batur near Kintamani, as Dewi Danu&#8217;s primary temple, since that pairing with Dewi Sri and the Subak system is best documented there. Ulun Danu Beratan honors the same goddess in the same role, water source for the fields below, just on a different lake, in a different regency, feeding a different stretch of Subak-irrigated terraces. For the paintings that result from that downstream abundance, see our guide to <a href=\"\/fr\/peinture-dune-riziere-a-bali\/\">Peinture repr\u00e9sentant une rizi\u00e8re \u00e0 Bali<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">Two Temples, Two Lakes<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">Not the Same Temple: Ulun Danu Beratan vs Ulun Danu Batur<\/h2>\n\n<p>The two names sit close enough that visitors mix them up constantly, enough that it is common to see travelers explicitly warning each other not to confuse the two before booking a driver. Both are called &#8220;Pura Ulun Danu.&#8221; Both honor a water goddess. Both sit on the rim of a lake formed inside a volcanic caldera. That is roughly where the resemblance ends.<\/p>\n\n<p>Pura Ulun Danu Beratan sits on Lake Beratan in Bedugul, Tabanan Regency, in Bali&#8217;s cooler central highlands, and is the temple that appears on the Rp50,000 note. Pura Ulun Danu Batur sits on Lake Batur, Bali&#8217;s largest lake, near Kintamani in Bangli Regency, in the shadow of Mount Batur, an active volcano, and functions as the primary temple to Dewi Danu described in our guide to Dewi Sri above. They are roughly an hour and a half apart by road, in different regencies, dedicated to versions of the same goddess but administered separately, with different histories and different architecture. Getting the two confused is understandable and extremely common. Getting them straight matters if you are trying to plan a visit, or simply trying to understand which temple a particular photograph, painting, or banknote is actually showing.<\/p>\n\n<!-- IMAGE 3 | product 5443, image batur-3, close-up crop. Portrait, dims CONFIRMED 1920x2560 via live file check 14 Sep 2026. -->\n<div class=\"img-block portrait\">\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/batur-3.webp\" alt=\"Close-up palette knife detail of devotees and an offering in a boat before Pura Ulun Danu Beratan\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" title=\"- Arts of Bali\">\n  <div class=\"img-meta\">\n    <p class=\"caption\">A closer crop of the same painting, showing a woven canang offering carried on a devotee&#8217;s head and the thick, layered palette knife strokes that build up the temple&#8217;s stone base.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">Visiting<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">Visiting Bedugul Today<\/h2>\n\n<p>Bedugul sits at roughly 1,200 to 1,500 meters above sea level depending on exactly where the measurement is taken, which is enough elevation to give the area a noticeably cooler, mistier climate than the beaches most visitors associate with Bali. That climate is also why the region became home to the Bali Botanic Garden, a large botanical reserve close to the temple, and to the market gardens and strawberry farms that line the surrounding hills. Ulun Danu Beratan itself functions today as both an active place of worship and one of Bali&#8217;s most visited highland attractions, its manicured lakeside grounds a deliberate contrast to the volcanic drama of temples like Besakih or Lempuyang further east.<\/p>\n\n<p>The temple complex is genuinely large. It is sometimes described as the second-largest temple in Bali by area, after Pura Besakih, the island&#8217;s mother temple on the slopes of Mount Agung, a scale that is easy to underestimate from photographs that focus tightly on the floating meru towers alone.<\/p>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">The Painting<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">The Painting: A Ceremonial Procession at Lake Beratan<\/h2>\n\n<p>Arts of Bali&#8217;s Serenity at Lake Beratan: Pura Ulun Danu Procession Palette Painting renders a moment of devotion rather than a static postcard view. Five figures in ceremonial white headcloths and bright traditional dress sit in a wooden outrigger canoe, one carrying a woven canang offering on her head, crossing the still water toward the temple&#8217;s tiered silhouette. Painted in a bold, textured palette knife style on cotton canvas at 70&times;90cm, the piece leans into thick, raised strokes for the water and stonework rather than smooth blending, giving the whole scene a tactile, almost sculptural quality up close.<\/p>\n\n<p>It is a fitting companion to the gallery&#8217;s other water-temple and ceremony paintings, and, like the guide to <a href=\"\/fr\/bali-temple-ceremony-painting\/\">Bali temple ceremony painting<\/a> covers more broadly, it treats the boat crossing itself, not just the temple in the background, as the subject worth painting.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cta-block\">\n  <h2 class=\"section-h2\">Bring Ulun Danu Beratan&#8217;s Stillness Home<\/h2>\n  <p>Arts of Bali carries the original Serenity at Lake Beratan: Pura Ulun Danu Procession Palette Painting, hand-painted by artists working in Seminyak.<\/p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/wa.me\/6285237454011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"cta-btn\">Discuter sur WhatsApp<\/a>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/artsofbali.com\/fr\/galerie\/serenity-at-lake-beratan-pura-ulun-danu-procession-palette-painting\/\" class=\"cta-btn outline\">View This Painting &amp; Price<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<span class=\"section-label\">FAQ<\/span>\n<h2 class=\"section-h2\">Questions fr\u00e9quemment pos\u00e9es<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"faq-section\">\n\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">What is Pura Ulun Danu Beratan?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">Pura Ulun Danu Beratan is a Hindu water temple on the shore of Lake Beratan in Bali&#8217;s Bedugul highlands, founded around 1633 and dedicated primarily to Dewi Danu, the goddess of lakes and rivers. Its floating meru towers are one of Bali&#8217;s most recognizable images.<\/p>\n  <\/details>\n\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">Why is Pura Ulun Danu Beratan famous?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">It is best known for appearing on the Indonesian Rp50,000 banknote, making its silhouette instantly familiar across the country. It is also one of Bali&#8217;s most photographed highland temples, thanks to its lakeside setting and misty, cool-climate backdrop.<\/p>\n  <\/details>\n\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">Who built Pura Ulun Danu Beratan and when?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">Most sources credit King I Gusti Agung Putu of the Mengwi kingdom with founding the temple around 1633 to 1634. Religious use of the site is thought to predate that construction, with megalithic-era artifacts found near the lake.<\/p>\n  <\/details>\n\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">Which deities are honored at Ulun Danu Beratan?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">The temple&#8217;s primary deity is Dewi Danu, goddess of lakes and water. Separate shrines also honor Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, Bali&#8217;s Hindu trinity. Sources differ on whether the complex&#8217;s tallest, eleven-tiered meru is dedicated to Vishnu or to Shiva and Parvathi.<\/p>\n  <\/details>\n\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">Is Pura Ulun Danu Beratan the same as Pura Ulun Danu Batur?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">No, they are two different temples on two different lakes. Ulun Danu Beratan sits on Lake Beratan in Tabanan Regency, while Ulun Danu Batur sits on Lake Batur near Kintamani in Bangli Regency. Both honor a water goddess, which is why the two are so often confused.<\/p>\n  <\/details>\n\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">How high above sea level is Pura Ulun Danu Beratan?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">The temple sits at roughly 1,239 meters above sea level in the Bedugul highlands, part of a cool, misty highland region that also includes the Bali Botanic Garden nearby.<\/p>\n  <\/details>\n\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">What connects Lake Beratan to Bali&#8217;s rice fields?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">Lake Beratan is a crater lake whose water feeds Bali&#8217;s Subak irrigation system, the UNESCO-recognized network that channels highland water down through terraced rice fields, in this case across the Tabanan region below Bedugul.<\/p>\n  <\/details>\n\n  <details class=\"faq-item\">\n    <summary class=\"faq-question\">Where can I see Pura Ulun Danu Beratan in Balinese art?<\/summary>\n    <p class=\"faq-answer\">Arts of Bali carries an original palette knife painting depicting a ceremonial boat procession crossing Lake Beratan toward the temple. 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