Bali's Mt. Agung is a highly active volcano and regarded as sacred.
Mount Agung (3,148 meters; 10,308 feet) is the most sacred mountain in Bali. An active volcano, Mt. Agung last erupted in March 1963. The lava flows missed, sometimes by mere yards, the Mother Temple of Besakih, which is located on the slopes of the sacred mountain.
The saving of the temple is regarded by the Balinese people as miraculous and a signal from the gods that they wished to demonstrate their power but not destroy the monument the Balinese faithful had erected. However, many people were killed and a number of villages were destroyed in this eruption.