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After a quick lunch at the Lotus Cafe in Ubud, we walked over to Linda's
house on Jalan Kajeng. It's just a few minutes' walk from the center of
Ubud. The paving stones along Jalan Kajeng are 'sponsored' by various local
businesses, residents and visitors, and each stone has an inscription by
the sponsor. Linda and Charlie's (her husband's) paving stone has an elephant
for Linda's favorite Hindu figure Ganesa, part elephant, part boy. Astrid
and Dan are busy looking at the inscriptions. Julia is further ahead, and
Steve and Justine are in front with Linda. |
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We're almost at Linda's house now. Justine and Steve ended up staying at
this house, just a couple of doors from Linda. They operate a homestay,
where you can get a simple room very inexpensively. |
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is Linda's living room - the house overlooks a gorge, and, typical of Balinese
houses, is completely open to the elements. There is no glass in the windows
- just a simple blind that can be lowered when it rains. It's very cool
and shaded inside, a sharp contrast to the bright sunshine outside - it's
difficult to take a photo that shows the inside and outside at once - too
much contrast. |
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Another contrasty picture inside Linda's house. Here is Linda, with Astrid,
and Justine and Steve silhouetted in the background. |
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By this time we were feeling pretty beat - we'd been travelling for nearly
24 hours, and had stayed up to acclimatize to Balinese time. We walked back
to Oka Wati's - this is a late afternoon view of our building from the other
side of the rice field. Our room is upstairs on the lower building at far
left, with the shade hanging down. |
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A late night view from our balcony - the lights reflected in the water of
the rice field. The night seemed alive with the sounds of frogs and crickets,
croaking and chirruping in the warm darkness like a night chorus all around.
It felt really good to be in Bali. |
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