Popular Instagram hotspot in Bali "Gates of Heaven" turns out to be sheet of glass visual trickery

Bamboozled.

Nyi Nyi Thet | July 05, 2019, 09:32 AM

Here are some pictures taken from Lempuyang Temple in Bali.

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“What’s a King to a God?” 🙏🏽

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➰Patience➰

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🏯Heavens gate🏯🇮🇩 -> 🇸🇬

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You get the picture.

Basically the captions will be some variation of the gates of heaven, or some motivational post on reflection.

Comments on the post usually involve their family or friends marvelling at the sight and super clear reflection in the photograph.

Almost as if it was purposely designed to have the most visual impact on a photo-sharing site.

Turns out it is.

Heart broke

Polina Marinova, editor of Fortune Magazine, shared her own experience at Lempuyang Temple on Twitter.

But instead of the filter-heavy photos that dominate the Instagram landscape, hers was a sobering behind-the-scenes look.

Here is her tweet.

Yup, it's just a guy using a piece of glass to give it that ethereal effect.

Image from Polina Marinova's Twitter

Which saw many downright bummed at the reality of the situation.

Although some did point out the presence of far less impressive water bodies.

Image from Ashwin Kumar

Image from Ashwin Kumar

But the thing is, even though the locale doesn't feature a shiny veneer of an impossibly clear lake, it is still objectively pretty.

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Jedno z najfotografovanejsich miest na Bali a uplne rozumiem preco 🙂 Lempuyang Temple sa nachadza vo vyske 1175m a pri dobrej viditelnosti sa priamo za nim nachadza sopka Mt Agung, ktora je najvyssou sopkou na Bali. #dnescestujem #cestolidi #lempuyangtemple #igbali #canggu

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Nice.

Image from Polina Marinova

 

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