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The road from Candi
Dasa to Amed takes you through the lush Balinese countryside, with rice
fields to the left and right.
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Everywhere you looked were rice fields in various stages of growth, and
everywhere water. No wonder it was so humid here! |
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You can see the sea in the distance, and little shelters nearby where the
rice farmers can take shelter from the rain. Everywhere water - we'd read
about how far water travels in Bali from the springs in the mountains to
the sea - I forget the numbers now, but it's an astonishing distance. Even
though as the crow flies it's less than a hundred miles, the water travels
thousands of miles, because of how intricately it is diverted to irrigate
every square inch of land, it seems. |
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The mountain in the distance is the sacred mountain of Gunung Agung, on
whose slopes the mother temple Besakih sits. It is a volcano, whose ash
has made these fields so fertile. |
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