After completing our Papua New Guinea tour, my wife and I flew to Brisbane, Australia for a couple of days and then to Bali to join a Road Scholar tour. We landed in Denpasar on August 21 but immediately drove to Ubud, the center of cultural tourism on this island. Here are a few photos from the first real day of the tour, August 22.
Rice field on the grounds of our hotel, Alaya Resort Ubud.
Our tour leader in Ubud, Ramis.
Couple working in a rice field in Ubud. Rice cultivation is absolutely central to life in Bali.
Elaborate stonework in the Pura Pengulingan Temple.
Stone deity in the holy spring temple of Tirta Empul
Western tourists bathing in the waters of the holy spring temple
We saw lots of big kites flying in the skies above Bali. Here were a few smaller ones on sale.
I love the intricate geometry and curves of the stonework in Balinese temples.
Statues near the entrance of the Sacred Monkey Forest in Ubud.
A small monkey and a large statue in the Sacred Monkey Forest.
Monkey enjoying dinner in the Sacred Monkey Forest.
After our own dinner, we enjoyed some traditional Balinese dancing by young girls
and by a larger dancer who I think represents the white monkey god Hanuman.
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