Everyday locals take time to place offerings, cut flowers, and build beautiful displays in front of their shops. One morning we watched a woman meticulously build this collage of leaves and flowers in a huge pot filled with water.
Local residents place new offerings in front of stores, restaurants, holy sites, and different spiritual areas every morning.
The offerings usually contain flowers, rice, cookies, candy, and incense. Sometimes extra items are included such as cigarettes (as seen above).
The offerings come in all different shapes and sizes.
The local wildlife enjoy the free snacks in the offerings.
Temples are found all over Ubud and many of them have huge ponds filled with lily pads and lotus flowers.
The Balinese allow moss and grass to grow on the temples and statues creating an amazing spiritual atmosphere.
Plumeria flowers are cut everyday and incorporated into different statues and artwork all over town.
Stilted restaurant and residence
The statues holding umbrellas are dressed in traditional Balinese sarongs. On specific holy days throughout the year, statues and shrines are dressed in new sarongs by local patrons.
Ganesha
Gula Bali, our favorite restaurant in Ubud
The delicious pork rinds that came with every meal
Sitting on the floor at a traditional Balinese table
Inside the restaurant
Fried BBQ Chicken
Ibu Oka, a local restaurant became famous when Anthony Bourdain visited it during his show 'No Reservations'
We had to try the famous 'Babi Guling' (Suckling Pig). The pig is roasted on a spit over an open fire while continuously being basted with Coconut milk.
Babi Guling
Jeff tasting the crispy coconut milk skin
The roasted pig
what the hell is that rat w/ a snakes tail in the fruit?
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