Bali Bali

Here is a collection of our best moments. It was as promised: amazingly pleasant, charming people with amazing smiles, a culture filled with soft and flowery rituals, a temple-sprinkled island that charmed us like so many other tourists. Noam led our days, choosing to stroll around the grassy patch or to splash the frogs with pool water. Bali is a wanderlust island, covered in jungle forest, moss and tropical plants, everywhere. Hindu temples are sprinkled everywhere, sometimes in people's yard, most times they are gathered in compounds, while across the street other compounds are also having altars, offerings and statues. I particularly like the aesthetics of the temple gates; the sharp volcanic stone, intricately carved with fauna, flora and divinities, is like a large decorated column cut in half, with each of the halves spread apart to allow the passage of the believers. As if the deity had allowed for the stone to be cut apart to facilitate its access for the devotee. And rituals are filling the days of the Balinese, while flowers and offerings are scattered everywhere, in front of doors, on pathways, in front of stores. Maybe that closeness to their gods as paid off with providing them with the most amazing smiles and an extreme kindness, and a lush and beautiful earth.

We have been touched, and we would have like to stay longer. 

Here is a visual summary of our trip: