Pura Uluwatu

This temple is one of six main temples in Bali. This temple stands majestically on the cliff 75 meters altitudes above sea level, at the southern tip of the island of Bali. Based on cosmological of Bali, Pura Luhur Uluwatu is located at the Southwest heading to Northeast. The gate is exactly head to head to the gate of Pura Penataran Agung Besakih.

There is no authentic evidence found it, when its temple to be built for the first time. But, if we see some archaeological remains in this place, the temple is believed to have gone there at the eighth century.
And, judging from its location on top of the surrounding of land area, a strong suspicion arisen that Uluwatu has functioned as a sacred area in Bali ancient times, pre-Hindu. In those days, the Balinese are very confident that the highest land, such as a mountain or hill is the holiest. It was there that ancestral spirits are believed to dwell. Therefore, the orientation of their worship was pointed there.

In some traditional Balinese sources, stated that around the 15th century Hindu priest from East Java named Danghyang Nirartha (also named Rsi Markandeya) had a spiritual journey along the banks of the beaches of southern Bali. In some places he went through, he built or fix some temples such as Pura Tanah Lot, Peti Tenget, Pura Sakenan, Pura Masceti, Pura Silayukti, and Pura Luhur Uluwatu. Not only the temple, along the way, Danghyang Nirarta establish "literary house", wrote and composed a literary works of spirituality.
For the Hindu community in Bali, Pura Luhur Uluwatu is a place to worship God in manifestation as Shiva-Rudra.

Note:
 Walk from parking area to the temple location is about 500 meters
 Beware of monkeys, they sometimes take our properties like glasses, hat, earring, etc