First Sight of Bali & Lunch

For me, visiting Bali is about understanding the culture and the people.

The architectures here are inspiring. The age of the buildings are fascinating.

Pura means Temple in Balinese. The gates are called 'split gates'.

You will find this in every house in Bali. It is their culture and religion.

The split gate are to protect the house from evil spirits and dangers.

It is believed that the split gates will close and joint into 1 piece to

crush the evil spirit if they try to enter the house.

Look closely and you will notice that each side of the gate, is exactly

the same design. So when it closes or joints together, it becomes a 

complete piece.

Along the way, we saw many of such statue wrapped in clothes

of different colors. There are red, yellow,white, black & white checks, 

red & white checks and yellow & white combinations.

Each color represents different God, Deity or spirit.

Red represents the Fire God, while White represents Water. 

Black on the other hand represents Air. 

Black & White checks represents spirits of different forms.

Above is our tour guide Mr. Kasena. 

The pouch with colorful flowers is called canang sari or little offerings.

You will see it place almost at every corner of every house, office,

stalls and roadside. It is a practice of the Hinduism in Bali, offering for peace, 

good business, thanks giving and almost any reason you can think of.

FresTea is normal Ice tea. It is served in glass bottles, everywhere

in Bali. I supposed it is easier to serve this way, hassle free. 

All you need to do is just to pick a bottle, pop the cap and sip through

the straw! When you are done, the stall keeper will just pop it back 

into the containers for the supplier to collect and replenish them.

This is our transport.

Baby Guling. It is crispy skin from the pig, like the Chinese's suckling pig.

Served with mixed vege as side dish and white rice.

My plate, had a huge FRIED FLY in it. I eaten almost 3/4 of the plate,

before this bugger show himself. Euu....

This is how a stall by the roadside selling Babi Guling will look like.

Almost every corner of Bali sells babi guling. Next on the menu will

be the Bakso.

Next post ~ Arriving at Lovina