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The village of Bedugul is located on the western shores of Lake Beratan, right at the foot of Mount Tapak. With a dry climate and temperatures cooler than most any other place in Bali.
Situated around 25 km to the north from Denpasar, this place is a small forest measuring about 12 ha. Inside, there is an old sacred temple guarded by hundred of monkeys and up on the big trees are huge fruits bats with their massive wings.
Gitgit is home to three different waterfalls. The best-known is properly known as "Air Terjun Gitgit" but more commonly called simply "Gitgit" Further upstream there is another one called
If you are in the Singaraja - Air Sanih - Tejakula area, you should make a little detour and visit Yeh Mampeh. This waterfall, while not huge, is scenic and not yet suffering from tourism overkill.
This forest is smaller than the one at Sangeh but the monkeys are just as wild. In addition to the monkeys there are several temples in the forest and walking around the cool forest trails is a nice break from the hectic shopping
