Bali Day 2

Day two was a 2 hour bike ride from the volcano Butar, back to the hotel. It was quite nice I had my own personal tour guide, Dewa. We started by having breakfast at a little restaurant near the volcano. It had a gorgeous view, pretty sure I was either in a postcard or a movie! Breakfast was traditional fried bananas and tea. The bananas were heaps good, not sure if I've seen fried banana on a stick at the state fair, although they probably have it somewere.

Then we went to a coffee farm. I got to see and pet a water buffalo, not sure if I've ever gotten to pet one before so we'll add that to a new adventure. He showed me the civets, a cat that they make eat the coffee berries, then when they poop out the beans they collect it and make coffee out of it. It's very expensive coffee, I know there's a place in Perth that sells it for about $100 a cup! for poop coffee! The picture is a man roasting beans the traditional way, I learned on thhe bike ride the modern was it to put the beans in the middle of the street on a tarp, eventhough the cars and motorbikes run over them.

Then our bike ride started, the bikes were for Balinese sized people so not the most comfortable, but the route was pretty much downhill so I used the brake way more than the pedals. The guide showed me pretty much every temple and rice patty we passed that had workers. Which is quite a lot considering that every little village has 3 temples and everyone has a rice patty. It was fun to see what I was told was "real" Bali, away from the tourist areas. I got to see how they made the walls of their houses, traditional wedding decorations and knife making. I was also very glad to be on the back roads where there wasn't really any traffic. We rode on a main road for about 2km and I was a little afraid for my life. We went to a house for a traditional Balinese lunch and then back to teh hotel for a relaxing afternoon by the pool. I realized at night that 3 hours in the Bali sun and no sunscreen can leave you with some pretty wicked tan lines.