A choir of voices rose in the waiting hall when Sriwjaya's flight to Balikpapan was announced to delay one hour. We were waiting AirAsia's flight to Denpasar, so I did not need to join the choir.
Our arrival at Denpasar Airport looked like this. We crossed the time zone borderline and put our clocks one hour forward.
Meeting Sri's friend Lestari and her husband Nova. (For non-Indonesian readers: Nova has been abbreviated from Rinova, and its letter "v" is read as "f".)
They took us with their car to Jebak Bali Kuliner, a restaurant area with many small booths to serve food to common tables. The atmosphere was relaxed. Stray (?) cats were in enjoying together with people.
Our lodgings, Wisma Bhinneka.
Snacks on sale in the shop across the street. The last ingredient of the "nopi" is "et cetera".
The shop reminds us to bring our own bag. They are no longer providing any. Indonesia is a plastic-aware country.
The green pastry is called martabak in Indonesian, more accurately martabak manis, the sweet variety of martabak, a kind of filled, folded pancake. The word martabak comes from Arabic mutabbaq (مطبق), meaning "folded".
Hotel balcony, 6 AM.
Hotel balcony, 7:33 AM.
Lestari brought us breakfast. Thank you!
There is also free tea and pastries every morning on the 2nd floor aisle.
A few street views travelling northeast from our lodgings.
Bali is a stronghold of Hinduism.
Desa Budaya Kertalangu, a tradition village inside the city.
Desa Budaya Kertalangu: Fishing pond is available, for a fee. No food or drink allowed at the fishing pond.
Field patches were marked with name plackards. Besides Latin script Balinese uses also Balinese script belonging to the Brahmic scripts as do Indian Devanagari and Thai script. The writing rules of all such scripts resemble each other.
Desa Budaya Kertalangu: A scarecrow device, activated by a rope which the farmer pulls.
Plastic bags be hanged! Or at least converted into a scarecrow.
Desa Budaya Kertalangu: The violet-colored flowers are used for Hinduist rituals.
Not a palm, but a jambe. The use and effects of its fruit are similar to betel nuts.
Funeral preparations. The corpse is inside the pedestal on which the red cow stands. The cow is to give the deceased a ride to the spiritual world.
Offerings can be left to the stretcher-like carriage. The carriage and the corpse will be cremated as soon as the auspicious day to do so comes.
Travelling northward through Bali.
A furniture shop plus a small factory. Daniel "Trisno" Sutrisno is Lestari's and Sri's friend, and accompanies us on our tour.
Monkey forest with a temple. Admission 5.50 € if an Indonesian buys the tickets.
Lestari stayed out of the park. She still freshly remembered the previous time that monkeys tried to confiscate her earrings. Regrettably she was out of luck also outside, as a monkey took her coffee.
Going together for a coffee break afterwards we were spared from the monkeys.
Arjuna.
Rice terraces are a popular attraction. Beware, do not step on the religious offerings, as they may be small and on the ground.
Passing through the centermost parts of Bali.
Fruit-buying break.
Mount Batur and Lake Batur.
Admission fee applies, at least to foreigners. Car parking ticket is also sold at entry.
Mujair nyat-nyat is a traditional Balinese fish dish.
Penglipuran is a tourist village, a demonstration for domestic and foreign visitors about how people lived in Bali during past centuries.
There are people living in the village in open-door houses, name and number in plain sight at the entry.
The village has both home temples and a large common temple.
Tourists can buy local traditional and - as it seems - not-so-traditional snacks and foodstuffs there.
An Odalan procession waiting at a street corner for the time to go.
Odalan is an anniversary celebration of a Hindu temple establishing. See English Wikipedia "Odalan" for further details.
Radio Heartline is a Christian organization for both making the Gospel known and giving advice to people in their general problems. They have cooperating organizations overseas, Medialähetys Sanansaattaja (Sansa) in Finland being one of them.
We visited the simple but active radio station.
Restaurant Layana on our way back to Denpasar. The restaurant is next to a small waterfall. There is a path for sure-footed, flashlight-using visitors down to the foot of the waterfall.
Restaurant Layana's PERFECT pineapple juice. As the saying goes, too much of a good thing can be just wonderful. Please note the bamboo straws. No plastic utensils here.
Tea and family values. The teabags remind that the family is our support for strength and we should spend time and express our love to it.
On a highway towards lake Beratan. It is 9 AM and the traffic is relatively easy. This municipality of Badung is a rather rich one.
