While I am still deciding among the monkeys and the temples and the jungle as to what my favorite part of Bali was, Michael's favorite by far was the rice terraces. They are pretty amazing. Hand built into mountain sides, the rice terraces are tangible evidence of highly sophisticated farming techniques, including gravity-controlled irrigation, that form the backbone of Balinese society.
And they are beautiful.
I chatted with these ladies working in the rice paddies for a bit. They were working barefoot in this flooded paddy.
In the picture above, the paddies look flat, but here you can see they the terraces are actually quite steep. The hats you see peaking out over the horizon here belong to the same women in the picture above.
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paradise found! SO gorgeous. i can't believe i haven't seen your pics before. i will have to hunt through our emails for the picasa version, too.
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