Bali (Benoa), Indonesia- 2 of 3- Around Benoa

This is post 2 of 3 on our two days in Benoa. A cab took us around the city to various sites. Some images were shot while traveling through a window, so please excuse any reflections of the oops.

These are the sites that greeted us as we disembarked. Wilson, of course, had to insert himself into the scene. The traditional garb loses a bit when you notice the new-fangled cell phone the second girl from the right is holding.

These two are a shop selling stone carvings.

The symbol is a little offsetting until you remember (or look it up) that the left-facing symbol is called sauvastika, which, in Hindu, symbolizes “night or the tantric aspects of Kali.”

Doughnuts!

Batik: the Indonesian technique of wax-resistant dyeing added to fabric one tiny dot at a time. It is very time-consuming!

Welcoming to the Batik fabric store (I got a genuine batik-copy shirt)

Coffee plantation. One of the best coffees I have ever had is called Kopi Luwak, or civet coffee. Why civet? It is made from beans defecated by the civet (a small furry critter always in a lousy mood) after eating coffee cherries. The cherries are fermented as they pass through the civet’s intestines, and after being defecated with other fecal matter, they are collected. Some of our fellow travelers insisted on calling it Poop Coffee. Once you get past how it is “produced,” it really is an extraordinarily good coffee.