Senur Beach, BaliBalinese Offerings and Temples.I am very sad to leave Ubud. I love it here.The Balinese are mostly Hindu whereas the rest of Indonesia is mostly Muslim. I love how flower offerings are everywhere. The streets are literally strewn with flower offerings. As I mentioned in an earlier post, each family makes 30-50 little flower basket offerings a day.Businesses also put out flower offerings. These little baskets are …
Stuck in the Mud Tegallalang Rice Terraces The morning starts with a 7:30am yoga class by the pool. After breakfast our driver takes us to Tegallalang Rice Terraces. These Rice Terraces used to be just rice fields but now they have become one of the biggest tourist attractions in Bali. They are stunningly beautiful on their own and they have added all these photo op areas around the fields. John refused …
Temple Trekking and Monkey BusinessGate of Heaven Three thirty in the morning arrives awfully quickly. By 4am we are heading to our first temple which is Lempuyang Temple also known as Heaven’s Gate. We drive up, up, up. Then we pay for a shuttle bus to take us up, up, up some more. Then we climb up, up, up a steep hill…and we are there.It is a pretty but small …
Bali Views and FoodHiking the Rice Fields We start the day with breakfast overlooking the jungle surrounding our cottage. Then we book tours for the next few days and head out on a hike into the rice fields. Ubud is a city, but with one quick turn onto a path and a few steps you are suddenly transported to a peaceful, rural setting of rice paddies. The trail we are …