Pics from Bali!

Finally, what you have all been waiting for.... honeymoon photos!

We flew into Bali from Kuala Lumpur... from Shanghai, from SFO...

Bali, an island in Indonesia, is home to a large Hindu population- a minority in indonesia. They rely heavily on the tourism industry, about 80% of the Bali workforce is in Tourism. Beautiful beaches, Floridan climate, and cheaper doodads than China (surprisingly). Now, onto the photos:

Below, at the coffee plantation where we tried Bali coffee, ginger tea, lu wak coffee (from animal droppings)
Delicious, but a bit expensive.


And here is Mt. Batur, an active volcano, with a lake at its base, Lake Batur, with hot springs we got to swim in. What was really amazing was how people managed to farm the land around the volcano- basically volcanic rock, as far as the eye could see. Piles of huge charcoal like rocks, with patches of grass sprouting up and bright red tomatoes popping.


We also hit the zoo for a very awesome tree-walk [ropes course] $10 for about an hour in the trees doing a very challenging obstacle course plus 4 or 5 zip lines zig zagging across the river. This was not the type of river you'd want to fall in! On the first tremendously long zip line, Timon lost his shoes! He hit the net at the other end so hard, his shoes just went flying off- only a few feet from the river we'd just crossed. Close one!

Then it began to get dark. It was late afternoon now and we still hadn't gotten to see the zoo part of the zoo. It was sprinkling and misty and the animals were hiding, and then suddenly, "BOOM!" A Thunderclap! "We'd better run for it-" before Timon could finish his sentence, buckets upon buckets began to pour on us poor ill prepared tourists. The zoo was a singular direction path, so it was forwards or backwards. We ran forwards down a path through the Bird Section (they had roofs, so it seemed safer) and we got startled by a roaming turkey (I'm not sure who was more scared- him or us) and hit a chained off area. We ran backwards for about 5 minutes to the zoo cafe, totally soaking wet! Although lousy, they did bring a few critters out for us to hold and pet, like the below gator ("Are you going to put something over his mouth?" Haha! No, he won't bite people...) We managed to get off without a scratch. : )



Black sand beach.


Our roof of our villa.


View from our villa at Bali Masari, about 5 minutes from Sukawati Art market. It was a lovely place with a large swimming pool, very quiet, and our own private pool and outdoor shower. We were of the few foreigners in the rural area.