The village of Batur/Kalanganyar borders the town of
Kintamani, an administrative 
center
in the district of Bangli. This was formerly a way station over the mountains
that separate Buleleng (the old colonial headquarters of the Dutch) from
the rest of Bali. The second hotel built in Bali was in Kintamani but
the place still looks like a frontier town: wooden huts and no-nonsense
little cement boxes for the municipal offices. What one notices most is
the delicious air and the vistas the crater to one side and all Bali extending
to the sea on the other.
Up the road going north is a market, busy every three days on Hari Paseh in the Balinese calender. This is interesting to visit to see the variety of produce from surrounding mountain farms oranges, corn, vegetables. fruit and the usual vast array of scented flowers, dried fish, tools, livestock, pots and baskets, plus a big clothing market. You may also see men cuddling big furry Kintamani puppies, highly prized all over Bali.