May 4, 2015, Monday, Bali

Monday May 4, 2015, Bali

We had time for an excursion called Bali Terraces and Ulun Danu Temple.  I am not sure why we signed up for this.  Another one about the Balines Arts and Crafts would have been nice.  Bali is famous for Batik cloth and filigree jewelry.  However, our trip turned out to be very enticing.

Sunrise over Bali from our deck with the bunker boat below us

We stopped at a Balinese home where there are individual outdoor rooms in a big courtyard surrounded by a stone wall.  But the doorway they said was always open.  This was the children's room.

This is the granery above, and the lving room

this is another bedroom

Here are the shrines.  He is pointing to the one for the gods.  Behind him is the one for their ancestors.

This peacock scupture faces the ancestor shrine

The kitchen with a desert rose plant tied into knots with wires.  

The owner of the home

These beautiful mountains were in the distance along the long drive.  We saw rice paddy terraces on narrow winding roads,  Utility poles were decorated with umbrellas protecting little shrines.

Ulun Danu Temple Temple on a lake. People pray daily here by giving Flower offerings to God, to earth, and all four directions.  There are an Odd number of levels of pagoda, this one is 11.  Beautiful flowers surrounded the parklike temple grounds.

This is my Balinese top.

Female statues looking towards the lake

The beautiful lake

Some rice terraces.  we couldn't get a better photo because the roads were so narrow the bus couldn't stop.

Just a typical house along the road

This woman is picking rice left after it was harvested.

Workers picking rice.  They have 3 rice crops per year in Bali

New rice terraces ready to plant

Wares along the highway

Luwak coffee store