Sailing around the World ( presently in Bali, Indonesia.)
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Fri 10 Sep 2010 02:43
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THURSDAY
9th September 2010
06.00hrs S&A got up and ready
for our one day tour today,
All the others remained in their bunks, catching up
with lack off sleep.
08.00hrs We were collected at the Yacht Club, Thats
ourselves and the 4 guys from " Arianne"
The first stop was at a theatre for a dancing show,
well actually, these super performances are all about telling mithical stories
and this show is about Evel v Good.. This had a
local orchestra with local instruments, and the whole thing was terrific and
entertained
us for 1.5 hours.
No sooner was the show over, but it started
raining, and we drove for about another hour to the main temple on the Island
called " Besakih Temple" also known as
the " Mother Temple"
This was a spectacular monument /
Temple, the centre tower being 13 stories or tiers high and even in
the rain, was very impressive.
The tatched roofs are made from a fibre extracted
from the leaves of a local tree, and lasts about 30 years,
We wandered around here for an hour or so, much of
the time was spent bargaining for Sarongs, which you have to wear
going into the Temple grounds if you have shorts
above the knee.
The whole complex has 30 Temples on 7 terraces ,
all on different levels built into the side of the mountain.
Later , we had lunch in a neat little restaurant
overlooking lots of Paddi fields, the food was the same as yesterday, a buffet
of asian food, yum, yum,
" Hector " Christine's dad, would
really enjoy this place.
We stopped at some other Temples on our return
journey, but at this stage, we were Templed out, worn out , and washed
out,
The rain was still comming down in bucket
loads. Gosh, Lets hope we wont have this next week on our next
leg......
We eventually finished up at a Temple next to the
black sandy beach,
Aileen and myself skipped the Temple and wandered
off down the beautifull black sands, BUT, But it was spoilt with heaps of
rubbish
everywhere, We found this very sad. but obviously
the locals dont seem to mind .. gosh it has to be unhigenic
Finally, we all piled into the mini bus again and
had a long rough ride back to the marina, Rough , because they are
rebuilding
the main road into a dual carrigway.. Oh one
interesting thing we observed on the way back, was 2 farmers driving a
flock of ducks ( about 200 ducks )
along the main highway, like farmers driving
cattle. Thats a first for us.
On our return, we met lots of the other sailors in
the yacht club, so we had to sit down and mingle with everyone, tell our
exploits for
the day and listen to theirs. and the
rain was still falling like niagra falls .
The two N's went off with the younger crowd, while
Stephen and Terry toddled off to Sanur for a light dinner, Skipper had
pizza and Terry
had a chicken curry, the total bill was $
12.oo The blooming taxi in and out was more expensive.
We returned to the yacht club for more chat, before
eventually retiring to the scratchers, Thats Terry, Skipper, and Aileen,
the other two N's were gone for the night. and in
Bali, it should be good.
Thats all for now,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
skipper )
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