Bali-Back to Ubud

After we left Pura Besakih, we headed back to Ubud to a different hotel, outside the main downtown area and out in the country a bit for different views.  

Rice paddies from our late lunch view...on our way to Ubud.  We arrived at the hotel and found the restaurant was too far for mom to walk.  We didn't need dinner and the hotel agreed to bring breakfast to our room the next morning....they brought us a table and let us choose the foods we wanted.  They couldn't have been nicer to us....Margie and I swam the next morning early and then showered for breakfast. The grounds of the hotel were beautiful..

There were orchids everywhere-they grew out of the trees on the grounds.

Spectacular colors and amazing blooms.

This is one of the upper pools...the lap pool was much bigger and right next to the restaurant.

More orchids...we even saw a tropical rose, which seemed strange until I rememberedd that we get tons of Central American roses at local florists here.

There was this amazing palm, fern-like thing that  had the top leave as skeletins...not sure if this is what happens after they die or if the top leaves are just like this..tried to get a good picture with enough light between the layers so that the skeletal qualities could be seen.

We went to Celuk (Chelook for pronunciation) to look for Bali silver...our driver, bless him, tried to take us to the artisans coop, a place where all the silver makers sell their wares in one big place.  When we drove up and 3-4 people surrounded us:  one to open our car doors, one to help us out of our car, one to help us up the stairs and one to escort us inside, I knew  it would be expensive.  Sure enough and we drove around looking for smaller places...that was probably something that deserved more time than we had because of our evening plane...we settled on a place that had no cars parked in front and we went in and got some pretty good deals on bracelets for the girls and other gifts...not what I wanted, which was a place to buy beads for jewelry, but fine for a first trip to Bali.   Then we headed back to our hotel in outer Ubud for lunch on the terrace and then to pack for the airport....we had one last watermelon juice for the road...so thirst quenchiing.

Couldn't resist my sister's kebaya that matches her eyes.

One last orchid and off to the airport.  This hotel deserves another stay too..