On The Road

Is this not an amazing doorway. We pass by several like this each time we leave our hotel and go down a street that looks like a lane way.


When we are on the motor scooter in Seminyak, this is the kind of traffic we encounter.



We often pass by these wild, crazy, expressive statues.






Once, we drove beside a procession going to a temple.


For our bicycle tour in Ubud, we stopped at a restaurant for breakfast. This is the view from I sat. That mountain is a volcano. The dark part is the remnants of lava from the last eruption in 1963.




One of the stops on our bike tour was a coffee plantation. This man is hand-roasting coffee beans.


We also stopped at a Balinese home.



Inside, the women and children in the family were making bamboo mats, which they sell to generate income. The mats are used to sit on as well as to cover the roof.




Roosters are kept in cages to prevent them from killing each other between cock fights.


Each home compound houses several families, usually related. While the property is large, the extended family is poor. They open their home to tour companies to supplement their income.


That's our little bike tour group on the road.


We rode through many villagers.





And hi-fived many kids.




We stopped at a sacred banyan tree and one of the drivers made an offering. I think our guide said this tree is 2,000-years-old and the village has to trim the hanging vines to prevent the roots from spreading. You suffer severe punishment from the villagers if you are caught climbing or swinging on this tree.