Bali, Day 7: two temples and some organic food

First day back from being bedridden, so it wasn't a very intense and busy day.

First we drove through some rice paddies and scenery to get to the Kertha Gosa Temple. It consisted of a building in the middle of a pond, with lots of pictures on the roof of the temple building, drawing of different scenes. It also consisted of a tiny museum with a few paintings and some artifacts from the past Balinese people who lived in the region. There was a lot of interesting statues around the pond area.

The next temple we went to was the Tirta Gangga, or water palace. It was a bit further from where we live, but it was worth it. It had tons of statues squirting water from their mouths, ponds everywhere, little stepping stones and statues in one of the larger pond areas, a pool to swim in with a separately entrance fee. It was in a gorgeous setting and very scenic and nice.

We had lunch in the restaurant there, which actually caters to weddings there, but the food wasn't expensive (at least to our budgets, to the typical Indonesia budget, probably). I got chicken coconut soup and Aaron got a sampler plate with consisted of many random foods (some meat, some veggies) wrapped in banana leaves, as well as egg and rice.

After this we had a long drive back to our hotel, but we made it back to our hotel area. We checked this local organic coffeehouse/restaurant type place for dinner, where we ordered way too much food: carrot ginger soup, chicken sandwich, viet spring rolls, indian plate, and two juices.

We also tried some different fruits here too. Salak, or snakefruit, has a snakelike skin and when you peel it off, it sort of tastes somewhere in between a tart apple and a hard lycee. Hard to explain it. And then of course I tried my mangosteen again, which I had in China before, it is sweet and soft, almost apple tasting.