As we know Bali is known as the Island of God, because Bali has many temple. One of them is Tirta Empul Temple which is one of great tourism destination that has great history of Hinduism and peaceful atmosphere with holy spring water.

Titrta empul temple as the kingdom heritage in bali and it is the one of some heritage that very interesting to visit. Tirta empul temple and the bathing place is located in Manukaya village, Tampaksiring district Gianyar regency. Tampaksiring is the name of the village that located 36 km from Denpasar.

The name of the place, its maybe obtained from the name of the holy spring that available in this temple. Etymologically, Tirta Empul means the water that spurt from the ground.

This temple was built on 960 before Christ from the time of the Chandra bhayasingha king from warmadewa dynasty .This temple same as the other temple that have 3 part, the first is called Jaba pura or garden temple, the second is Jaba Tengah, or the center of the temple and the last is Jeroan or the main of the temple.

In the Jaba Pura you can see the garden of the temple and many building that used for the ceremony. There is a gate to enter Jaba Tengah which is made by the hand and you can see the detail of the gate, so beautiful and interesting. In the Jaba Tengah or the center of the temple there are 2 pool that have 30 shower from east to the west. Every shower have a name such as; pengelukatan, pebersihan, sudamala and pancuran cetik.

Pancuran cetik if I translate in English is poison shower and the name of tirta empul it is related with the mythology of the war of Mayadenawa, Batu Anyar king with Bhatara Indra.  In the mythology, Mayadenawa King have a bad attitude and not allow the people to pray to get a blessing from the god. Because of his bad attitude so the god in Indra manifestation get attacking Mayadenawa. The end of the story Mayadenawa can be defeated and runaway until Tampaksiring village. Because of the hurt of Mayadenawa, he made a poison spring that make the army of god of Indra dead after drink the water. Because of that happen the god of Indra getting angry and stick his staff to the ground and the water come out from the ground, and that water used for the army of Indra to rise up, so the army of Indra still alive.

That is the holy spring for bathing that get out from the ground from Indra’s staff. There is 30 shower that can be used for holy bathing to get a blessing from the god and to clean the physical and the spiritual. The water of Tirta Empul is flow to Pakerisan river. And along the river there are some ancient relics.

In the main temple there are archeologists heritage also; the first is the black one, Lingga Yoni. Lingga Yoni is a symbol of worship of the God in Siwa manifestation with his wife Dewi Parwati, the second is Arca Singa. From Hindu mytologhy singa or lion is the vehicle of Dewi Durga, the third is Tepasana. It is a building like a temple, but it’s was restoration on 1967. This Tepasana is a building for God in Indra manifestation that was made Tirta Empul Temple.

In the other side of Tirta Empul, in Tampak Siring Area there is a President Palace of the first President in Indonesia. The palace can be seen from Tirta Empul Temple.