I sure hope Unesco can keep up with us. At this rate we’ll run out of World Heritage sites to see! I’ll definitely be coming back here again in warmer/clearer weather. I can only imagine how beautiful it must be on a warm sunny day (not that this was a disapointment by any stretch of the imagination). And maybe next time an aerial view may be in order as well!
We arrived in time to catch the tail end of the Thaipusam festival here, and oddly enough it actually sort of smelled like the tail end of something that had died inside the tail end of something else. But other than that it was pretty cool to see people worshiping flaming coconuts and then breaking them on their heads, people carrying milk up hundreds of stairs only to pour it down some holy drain, and even the scalping of each other! It’s too bad we missed the self-mutilation portion though. 🙁
After an adventurous several days in the metropolitan area of Bali, it was time to ‘get away from it all’ for a bit. And so it was decided that we would escape to Gili Trawanga a remote island in Indonesia with no motorized vehicles, only a handful of cidomo for local transport.