Overview
Inside is a shallow T-shaped chamber holding a Ganesha and three lingams, blackened by centuries of lamp smoke. The bathing pools in front, with their water-pouring nymphs, were buried until a 1954 excavation; the fountains still run. Down the ravine behind the site are fragments of a Buddhist stupa and rock-cut niches, which is what makes the place unusual — two religions kept their sanctuaries side by side.
Highlights
Walk down the steps into the ravine, which most visitors skip and which is the cooler, quieter half of the site. The carved face over the cave mouth is best read from a few metres back, where you can see it as a face rather than as ornament. A sarong is required and provided at the entrance; the site is twenty minutes east of Ubud.