These are cheery Balinese cows, in their little shelter about 50 feet from the beach. All the cattle we saw were these smallish red ones. There are little huts all up and down the precipitous slopes of East Bali, and I think they just move the cows to the ones with the lushest grass every […]
This sculpture is to be found outside a building at the Science Park, adjacent to the National University of Singapore. OK, is it a bunch of vaguely Tibetan clouds? Or is it, as we think, a pyramid of brains? You know, I think that aside from gardening, Singapore’s general sense of aesthetics is pretty completely […]
We stayed in two hotels in Bali: One was a 3-month old penthouse suite overlooking the ocean (in Bali, even we can afford such a thing), and the other was a bungalow in the small city of Ubud, adjacent to the Saraswati Temple there. Both advertised themselves as bungalows, although they were adjoined to one […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]