Bali, temples

update: Film at eleven shrunk uploaded.  Please excuse the video quality.

I think we are officially tourists now, doing the tourista things, with no other mission on our way through town.

We spent a day visiting the Pura Goa Lawah (Bat Cave Temple) and Gunung Kawi (Mt. Kawi), pictures for which you will find better ones on the web than ours.

Pura Goa Lawah is new to both of us, and with an ongoing ceremony to deify the soul of the deceased family member, en masse, the visit was very special.  Our guide tells us the temple was recently restored.  Saw-cuts can be seen in the large flat surfaces, and you can really see the Chinese influence in the style of the temple.

By the way, I make all these photos small or medium so the webpage will load faster, but you can click on them to see larger versions if you have a real interest. 

Gunung Kawi was of particular interest to me having visited 30 years ago, before any renovations had been done.  Now we have a concrete walkway across the river, whereas before we jump from stone to stone across the river.  And of course in the old days there was not so much selling to the tourists, just a few kids with hand carved ebony chop sticks.  Now it's gauntlet of stalls with goods from all over Indonesia, and some locally made.  Arriving upon these huge monuments after the long trek down the stone stairway makes the trek worth while.