province: Bali - area: Kintamani
Kintamani is the mountain area referring the Penelokan village, the higher place to view Lake and mount Batur. From edge of the valley (usually blocked by locak buffet style menu restaurant) you can view clearly the Mt. Batur with its black lava and Lake Batur in from distance. Gunung Batur rises 686 meters above Lake Batur. The crescent-shaped lake takes up about one-third of the basin's total area. Measuring 13.8 km by 11 km, this is one of the largest and most beautiful calderas in the world. The crater's outer walls, about 30,000 years old, range from 1,267 meters to 2,153 meters above sea level. There are actually two calderas; the floor of one lies 120-300 meters lower than the floor of the other.

Kintamani is also covering the area of surrounding village on the bank of Lake Batur including Kedisan, the small port to find local boat crossing the lake to unique Baliaga village called Trunyan. And Toyabungkah, other village with its natural hot spring contained of sulfur which is good for your skin health.

Kintamani can be reached for about 2 hours drive from the Kuta or Legian and is within 1 hour from Ubud. Passing through the hilly village, rice terraces, temples and Balinese village trip to Kintamani is the most touristy and most popular amongst first visitors to Bali.