Visitor guidelines
You are a guest in a house of prayer
Besakih welcomes everyone, and people pray here every day. A local guide from the Besakih community walks with you throughout your visit.
Three simple customs
Before you enter
These are the customs the temple asks every visitor to respect.
Wear the sarong
Provided with your ticket. Wear it throughout the temple area.
Stay with your guide
They explain what you see and show where you can go.
Menstruation
Please don’t enter the inner temple areas. A Balinese Hindu custom.
Please do
01Stay on the marked visitor route
02Give way to worshippers and processions
03Speak softly; silence your phone
04Ask before photographing people at prayer
Please don't
01Step over or on offerings (canang sari)
02Climb shrines, walls or gates
03Sit higher than a priest (pemangku)
04Fly drones without written permission
WORSHIP AREA ACCESS
Inner courts are for prayer
A local guide from the Besakih community walks with every visitor and shows where you may go. Some courts are reserved for worship.
VISITING DURING CEREMONIES
Watch from the edges
On ceremony days routes may change and some courts close. Following Balinese Hindu custom, visitors who are menstruating may not enter the inner temple areas.
Check the calendar