Archive for Bali

Bali: Some Plants

This post is mainly for Daxin, unless there’s another botanically-inclined reader out there. Here are two interesting plants we saw in Bali. The first is in a pot in the Tirta Gangga (Water Palace) near Amlapura: Below is a closeup- or at least as close as I could get in the conditions: It looks like […]

Bali: The Ocean

We began our stay in Bali at a beach community on the east coast, which is lined by a 1.5 lane road.  Here’s what the ocean looks like from the hotel: Or, if you look from almost any other place on a hill amidst the greenery, like this: It’s blue, it’s clear, it’s fairly warm, […]

Bali: Food pix

We went to Bali last week, which is a mere 2.5 hour plane trip from Singapore.  I’ve now been to Indonesia, which for some reason is as far away as you can get on my mental horizon – maybe because of all those primitive carvings on exhibit in museums that only show that aspect of […]