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Ash, mud, and floods from the 1963 eruption of Gunung Agung devastated this part of the island, and the effects are still felt today, as its agriculture has not yet fully recovered from the disaster.
Since 1967 the site has been painstakingly excavated to give a picture of daily life before the great eruption.
An active volcano (although there has been no major eruption for a century), the mountain is sacred to both Sasaks and Balinese, who make pilgrimages to its crater lake and hot springs.
The FWI’s worst modern tragedy came in 1902 when the sophisticated city of Saint-Pierre was totally destroyed by the eruption of Mount Pelée.
A powerful illustration of the magnitude of the eruption is found at Haragosha Shrine, where you can just see the top cross bar of the shrine’s arch, the rest submerged by hardened lava.