Wandering Browns

Temple in Ubud After a restful night’s sleep, we were up early the next morning to go on a cycling tour of Ubud. Ubud is the arts and culture center of Bali, and is situated inland from the beach up in the highlands nestled in between volcanoes. They grow a lot of rice up there, utilizing Lake Batur, the largest lake on Bali, to irrigate the fields using a complicated irrigation system as well as terraced fields. Gamelan performance hall Austin and the rice fields We were picked up right on time by the Bali Eco-cycling driver. He drove us up to Ubud city, and picked up our guide. He was a 25-year-old guy whose given name was Nano. He spoke English very well and was wearing red skinny jeans and converse for our bike ride. Austin and I were in more athletic clothes. We were supposed to meet up with another couple and their two children. After waiting around in Ubud (and snapping some pictures of the nearby temple and gamelan performance pavilion) we were on our way to bre...

Scene from our drive Austin's project again has some delays, which left us with a free weekend. We are hoping to go to Bali later this week after getting an official temporary release. Here's to hoping that it comes through!Anyway, Saturday morning came around and we found out we would not be able to just up and leave for Bali like we were planning. We had to wait for more official approval and stuff, which was not going to happen over the weekend. Finding that out around 8:00 am Saturday, Austin suggested that we go to Yogyakarta for the weekend. There is a ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints there, so we could go to church, and there were some ruins that I really wanted to see. Plus, we wanted to get out of Cilacap for awhile. We have literally done everything there is to do here. At 8:45 am, I looked up hotels in Yogya. There happened to be a Hyatt Regency there where we could use our accrued hotel points to stay there instead of money! Yay! Au...