This better corresponds to the recommendation 5.29 of the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress whereby ‘protected areas should not exist as islands, divorced from the social, cultural and economic context in which they are located’.

[7] The park is not quite in one block: a peninsula of around 65 square kilometres (25 sq mi) juts out to the north-west and is separated from Bali's mainland by the island's coastal road linking Gilimanuk [fr] to the south-west, the village of Slumberklampok in the middle, and Pantai Teluk Terima ("beach of the bay of Terima") in Terima Bay to the north-east (and to further places of Bali's north-west coast) (see map below); most of that part of the coastal road is not included in the park.

That pond is mentioned in the Dwijendra Tatwa[11] which recounts the journey made by the charismatic figure Dang Hyang Nirartha in Bali, Lombok and Sumbawa.

[12] The whereabouts of the temple had been forgotten, as it is very isolated in the forest; it has only been (re-)discovered in 1990, through researches based on the Dwijendra Tatwa.

Thanks to the temple standing within the national park, any development is strictly restricted to what nature dictates[11] — although a narrow road can bee seen on some photos.

[3] Mammals include the banteng, rusa deer, Indian muntjac, Javan lutung, wild boar, large flying fox, leopard cat and East Javan langur (also called black monkey, Trachypithecus auratus ssp kohlbruggei).

[15] Plant species known to grow in this national park include Pterospermum diversifolium, Antidesma bunius, Lagerstroemia speciosa, Steleochocarpus burahol, Santalum album, Aleurites moluccanus, Sterculia foetida, Schleichera oleosa, Dipterocarpus hasseltii, Garcinia dulcis, Alstonia scholaris, Manilkara kauki, Dalbergia latifolia and Cassia fistula.