For today’s image we head back to my four wheel drive tour north through central Bali. After passing through villages and quarries, we made it to our final destination – a bamboo forest on the foothills of a volcano. I didn’t know quite what to expect when we got there. We were by this time [...]

Beautiful vistas and sunsets aside, you could argue that the real attraction to Uluwatu are the creatures who inhabit the grounds of the temple – troops of long-tailed macaque monkeys. These monkeys are not the kind of friendly monkeys you can invite to run nicely across your arms and shoulders. They’re actually craaaazy aggressive. Tourists [...]

There are many temples throughout Bali, though none of them are as important as Bali’s nine directional temples. There are temples each dedicated to a different god within the Balinese religion. It’s very difficult to see all nine of them in one visit to Bali, but we did make it to one rather spectacular temple [...]

Bali’s interior country is rugged and rich in agriculture. Jungles and rice paddies fill the land from the volcanoes to the shore. However, once you reach the shore, it’s a very different place. It’s a pure paradise. White sand beaches with clear, blue water for as far as the eye can see. This image was [...]

On the way to the villages of Bali I posted about yesterday, our first stop was at a stone quarry, off a dirt road half way to nowhere in the middle of central Bali. At the time the quarry was being mined for stone to use for construction. Resources were few and mining was obvious [...]

The Balinese are a very spiritual people and have a very strong sense of community. Ultimately their heritage dates back to times of agriculture, where villages existed and maintained their livelihood off the land. Houses and temples were constructed around rivers for fishing or fields for growing crops. Within the village, people were known for [...]

The first stop on my travels was the island of Bali in central Indonesia which will feature in the upcoming series of posts to my blog. It’s one of the largest tourist destinations in Indonesia and for the purposes of this trip was the location of my sister’s wedding on the 5th of June, 2010. [...]