In Reply to: In some parts of it..... posted by Pak Mungkin on Sunday, 5. April 2009 at 15:36 Bali Time:
but isn't true. One book even says it was cut out to make cement. Yeah right - ever seen a cement factory in Bali?
Went to Candi Dasa in the early 80's when there were just a few "monkey hut" places to stay and the beach had already gone.
An architect, Made Sukadana, told me that the reef was sawn out in blocks at low tide and sold for temple building materials.
Things to do. Hire a car as East Bali has the most dramatic landscape in the whole of Bali.