Cekik is the junction where the road either continues to Gilimanuk or heads east towards Lovina. All buses and bemos to/from Gilimanuk pass through Cekik. Archaeological excavations here during the 1960s yielded the oldest evidance of human life on Bali. Finds include burial mounds with funerary offerings, bronze jewellery, axes, adzes and earthnware vessels from around 1000 BC, give or take a few centuries.

On the southern side of junction, the pagod-like structure with a spiral stairway around the outside is a war memorial. It commemorates the landing of indepedence forces on Bali to oppose the Dutch who were trying to reassert control of Indonesia after WW II.

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