# Melukat: a Balinese water blessing at a quiet spring

URL: https://mybalitourguide.com/trips/water-blessing-melukat
Type: Experience. Duration: About 4 hours. Group: 1 to 6 people. Start: Your hotel in the Ubud area. Price: Price on request, paid directly to Dek Leonk.

Melukat is a Balinese purification ritual under fountains of spring water. Dek Leonk takes you to a quiet spring and explains every step beforehand.

## Highlights

- A smaller spring such as Pura Mengening, instead of the crowds at Tirta Empul
- Dek Leonk explains step by step what happens, before you start
- A ritual Balinese people do themselves at a new stage in life

Melukat is a purification ritual in which you stand under a series of fountains of spring water. Balinese people do it at a new stage in their lives, or when they feel they need it. At the well-known temple of Tirta Empul you share it with hundreds of others. [Dek Leonk](/en/about/dek-leonk) takes you to a smaller spring, such as Pura Mengening, and explains step by step beforehand what will happen: which fountain you skip, what you say and [what you wear](/en/practical/temples-and-what-to-wear).

## Good to know

You'll be given a sarong and sash. Bring dry clothes. By Balinese custom, women who have their period don't enter the temple; you can talk this through with Dek Leonk beforehand, so you can choose another day.

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