BALI Wedding

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We left for bali because Emil and Melissa (Mel) were getting married and they chose Bali because Mel's folks - Uni and Trevor live there, as do Andrew (Mel's brother) , Nana (his wife) and son Jason.
We spent a few days in Ubud with my friend Krys who is also Emil's godmother.

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Photos

Ananda Cottages
The pool by our villa.

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OUr villa behind Roman's head

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The local drake and duck of our notel- note the little pompom on the duck's head - only a few birds have this

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The local duckpond

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From our villa we had to bypass the rice paddocks

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The view of another rice terrace on the way to the restaurant of our hotel

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When we walked across the gorge from our hotel, we found ourselves in the midst of rice paddies. These ladies were machine threshing the rice.

Gorge
From our terrace

Afternoon walk
50 kgs of rice carried by this slim lady!!

Rice transport
This old couple were threshing by hand.

Kite kids
While the family was working in the fields, these kids were flying kites - see the gazes into the blue beyond...

exterminators
These ducks are very plentiful in the rice paddies and act as exterminators of insects and at the end of hte day - they take themselves home on their own...

local transport
As you see the roads around the rice terraces are VERY narrow!!

Local guard dogs
Our guide didn't like to tease the local dogs - move on he said when I wanted to stop to take pics!!

More local transport
The young ladies carrying their bits of bamboo home in the late afternoon

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Roman tries to outdo the local statuary - does he succeed?

Lewak
This is the lewak civet cat which produces the most expensive coffee when it passes the beans through its gut and the cleanup after fermentation in the gut is supposed to produce the most subllime coffee....mmmm well it was OK!

Comments

[Mary Bailey]

Hi from MB in the UK
Hi Both Off on your travels again I see. Thanks for letting me see. Enjoy yourselves! Love MB

[fil]

nice to hear from you
we are still in the uk Jim is in the north on a narrow boat and i am in plymouth with my cousins. We will meet again on the 10 July to fly home. glad to hear you are in Bali and I hope all was great at the wedding.

[Mandys]

Bali Wedding
Thanks Mary, We do like our travels - but Mel's parents live in Bali - so it was on the cards that we have the wedding there!! Great place to visit - especially around the mountains!