A vegetable-growing and service community of Pancasari, north of Bedugul, is actually located in Buleleng Regency just over the border separating it from Bangli Regency.

The Lake Buyan Recreation Area is on the left as you enter Pancasari from the south. There's a very scenic walk around the south side of the lake, up over the saddle, then on to Lake Tamblingan to the road around the northern side of the lakes back to Pancasari.

The Bali Handara Kosaido Country Club is just north of the lake, six km from Bedugul. Built in the early 1970s by the state-run Pertamina Oil Company, the Bali Handara is sterile and lacking charm, frequented most by golfers, particularly the Japanese.

The club's cool, 1,142-meter-high, 6,400-meter-long, year-round 18-hole championship golf course is world-class.

Masterfully designed by Peter Thomson & Associates of Australia, it's a worthy enough venue to host international golf tournaments. With tall trees and beds of flowers in riotous colors separating the fairways, the lawn virtually flown in from California, the Bali Handara is considered one of the most beautiful golf courses in Asia. It's also the only course in the world sited inside a volcanic crater.