After our visit to Sari Amerta Batik Collection, our next stop was something both we looked forward to very much.
It was the viewing of the volcano, Mount Batur. We had never seen a real volcano before. So, this added to our excitement besides the idea of having meals on hill top.
It was almost an hour and half drive from Batubulan village. Along the way, we passed through a few villages, and from the shops along the road, we knew that it is the famous Bali handicrafts villages.
We can see shops in one stretch displaying timber or wooden furniture, after sometimes we can see shops displaying handicrafts made in wood, then after sometimes we can see shops displaying handicrafts made in raw steel, or the sculpture of Buddha's, religion relics, etc.
This was the first time we saw a whole village specialized in doing what they are good at. It is just like the whole village and the villagers are artisans!
There was heavy rains during our journey to Kintamani village, I was wondering can we still see the view of the Mount. Batur and Lake Batur.
It was really a blessing that the rain started to stop and upon we were reaching the hill top, the rain clouds still not even reach there yet.
We were so happy and feel lucky and I knew that it is because the Lord’s hand!
We went to have our lunch at Grand Puncak Sari Restaurant. We were so hungry because by the time we reached is almost 1.30pm. It was a buffet lunch.
We had arrived a little bit late. There were quite a lot guests in the restaurant, and all of them were taken the terrace seating outside the restaurant.
And, we managed to have an outdoor table so that we can enjoy the volcano breeze and the view below since the restaurant perched on a hill.
The restaurant have a platform outside the restaurant, whereby the guests can go out and have a good view.
The food was not bad. Choices were plenty. Ranging from the appetizer such as mixed salad, vegetable soup, tomato soup and bread.
Main courses including steamed rice, fried rice, fried noodles, cap cay (mixed vegetable), gado-gado (steam vegetable with peanut sauce) or fried vegetable, Fu Yung Hai (Chinese Omelette), fried union, tempura vegetables, fried chicken chicken in sweet and sour sauce, chicken curry, beef stroganoff, fried potatoes, spring roll, satay (Balinese, Beef, Chicken) and shrimp crackers.
The desserts from fried banana/jack fruit, black rice pudding/black sticky rice, sticky rice with pumpkins, fruit salad, fresh banana and others tropical fruits.
The drinks they served is coffee and tea which we did not take. We just take the drinks which we bought earlier on. The buffet is Adult Rp.150,000 and Children Rp.75,000 and total bill with tax 21% comes to Rp.545,000. It is quite expensive though.
The food temperature was okay (not cold) as it is at the warmer all the time like other hotels does. Because we were sitting outside thus it got cold easily as the weather are cold.
After our first round of meals, we went out for our photo shooting session. We wanted to make sure we enjoyed the view of the volcano and the breeze to the max before we left.
Mount Batur is a volcano, as we know it today was formed by an eruption in 1917; it is a still active, secondary volcanic cone sporting numerous subsidiary vents around its flanks. Measured from the floor of the crater it rises within the circling embrace of the caldera to a height of ca. 700 meter (1,717 meter / 5,633 feet above sea level).
The eruptions of Mount Batur have been registered since 1804 and since that time 22 eruptions of the volcano have occurred. Since 1917 Mt Batur erupted three more times (1926, 1974, 1994), on each occasion shifting a little more to the west, creating new sub craters that are referred to as Batur I, II and III respectively.
We still can see the differences by the shades of the soil today. It is truly beautiful view. We learned that there is some hiking or trekking tour to Mount Batur as well.
Lake Batur is the largest lake of Bali. It is crescent shaped and it can be found in the smaller, secondary caldera of the Batur volcano, right at the foot of Mount Abang. Due to its height not only the temperature of the area is always cool but also the water of the lake.
To the local people who live in the small villages around lake Batur, the lake is a sacred site. The communities around the lake live mainly on agriculture and fishing and, in a lesser extent, on tourism.
After some photo shooting, we came back to the dining table again for our second and third round… Well, mainly is me 
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