Botanic Gardens & Temples

Borobudur is a 9th-century Mahayana Buddhist Temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia. The monument consists of nine stacked platforms, six square and three circular, topped by a central dome. The temple is decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. The central dome is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues, each seated inside a perforated stupa. It is the world's largest Buddhist temple, as well as one of the greatest Buddhist monuments in the world.

Location: Near Magelang, Central Java
Opening hours: 7 days a week 8am–5pm

Bratan is a crater lake with a Hindu-Buddhist water temple built on islands. It was founded by the king of Mengwi in 1633 A.D and now has a temple garden on the lakeshore. The temple is dedicated to the Indo-European goddess Danu. She is a mother goddess in both Celtic and Hindu mythology and has given her name to the River Danube and River Don. In the Rigveda Danu is associated with the primordial waters that existed prior to creation. Buddhist influence has led to the placing of a temple in a lake. Pura means settlement and Pura Ulun Danu is a beautiful place.

Address: Bedugul, Kabupaten Tabanan, Bali, Indonesia

☎ +62 812 3291 9419

The garden was established in 1817 (as Lands Plantentuin), by the Dutch, on a site adjoining a palace which Sir Stamford Raffles had planned as an English landscape garden. The aim was to collect and study the plants of Java with a particular view to their commercial uses. The garden suffered during Java's war for independence and during the Japanese occupation. In 1962 it became part of the Lembaga Biologi Nasional (LBN) (National Biological Institute). 

Location: Ubud , Indonesia
Telephone: +62 361 970 115
Opening hours: 7 days a week 8am-6pm 

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Botanic Garden Ubud is still quite a new place to visit in Bali as it only opened in 9 years ago in June 2006. Located in central Bali the garden is approximately 1.2 kilometres from the middle of Ubud. This luscious area serves as a sanctuary for all the flora that grows there as some of the plants are endangered.  

Botanic Garden is constantly expanding with new species of plants being cultivated and preserved. The Botanic Gardens are a great alternative to the busier scenes you may witness at other tourist attractions. People who visit this site always seem very relaxed and generally recommend it to their family and friends. But it isn’t just the foreigners who adore the gardens, the locals visit to find peace and tranquility also. There is a specific Islamic Garden among the features of the grounds which also means this location welcomes a wide cross section of the population for encouraging them to use it for many different purposes. More info here.

Location: Ubud , Indonesia
Telephone: +62 361 970 951
Prices: admission 50,000Rp
Opening hours: 7 days a week 8am-6pm