Goa Gajah
Goa Gajah or Elephant Cave is located near Ubud, in Bedulu, it is carved in the thickness of the hill near the road to Teges and dates back to the 10th century A.D. When the cave was discovered in 1923, a huge image carved at its entrance was mistaken for an elephant’s head, but the name Elephant Cave remained. A twelve-meter-wide passage leads into a 3.5-meter-wide, 20-meter-long cavity, tall enough to stand there at full height. In the dim electric light you will see niches, obviously former sanctuaries: in one of them there are still fragments of the elephant-headed statue of the god Ganesha, in another there is a triple lingam, the symbol of Shiva, carved from solid stone.
.Further excavations revealed an 11th-century pool with fountains in the form of two gods and four goddesses. A narrow staircase behind the ablution pool leads to a ruined resting place and a niche with an ancient statue of a headless Buddha.
