This week we’re visiting Pura Tirta Empul, otherwise known as the Holy Spring Temple. Water plays an important part in all belief systems, and in Bali, being cleansed at this temple is particularly special – so special in fact that pilgrims have been coming there for a thousand years.

Another symbol of the tropics is the banyan tree. This is a large, old tree. One can imagine that it was a seedling when the very first pilgrims came to Tirta Empul.