Tanah Lot is a Hindu pilgrimage temple on a large offshore rock, one of seven main sea temples of Bali. The article says it is claimed to be the work of Dang Hyang Nirartha, a 16th-century religious figure who allegedly spent a night there. It gives no construction date, architect or style.
The temple can be reached on foot only at low tide. Souvenir shops line the path to the sea, and restaurants sit on the mainland clifftops. The rock face began to crumble in the 1980s, and the Indonesian government received a Japanese loan to conserve the temple and other sites.
The renovation and stabilization were Japanese-funded and supervised, and the article says over a third of the rock is now artificial. It gives the loan as Rp 800 billion, or about $480 million, though the 1980 exchange rate in its footnote would make that about $133 million. The site draws about 500,000 tourists a year.
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