It really is this green, still very rural. Figures people the fields. No machines. The lady is picking small pink flowers for market and in the background are rows of groundnuts. I sat just looking at it for ages. The landscape seemed alive with people. And just so impossibly green.
And this is the reason that it is still a rural idol here, well as seen by an alien from another planet, Singapore!!!! Mt. Agung. At over 3000 mts it is the highest of Bali's active volanos. Last time it lost it's temper badly in 1963/4, over 2000 Balinese lost their lives. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Agung.
And down to the coast on the southern most tip of the island. No black volcanic rock here. All sedimentary rock, pushed up no doubt by a bubble under Bali.
But the last word on Bali has to go to these guys. Cute, yes? Oh no they are not!!!!!!. They are a thiefing gang of violent, antisocial thugs!!!!! They nick anything and everything. Within 5 mins Kok Wan had her hat stolen and Gek her glasses........ lifted right off her nose! Unfortunately for Gek, the incompetant little tow rag dropped her very expensive, new, vari-focals over the cliffs edge, never to be seen again. How come we could be mugged a monkey the size of a cat? Who rules this bloody planet?????
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