Bali – Day 6 – Candi Dasa

Today we left Ubud and must admit glad to get away from the monkeys lol

Silver Museum and workshop

We stopped at a silver museum and workshop. The workers in the workshop work 8 hours a day, 6 days a week.

Kertha Gosa

Kertha Gosa was an old hall of justice and was covered in lots of paintings of the different punishments in hell and another building with marriage stories.

Panji brought us some Balinese sweets, I tried jackfruit sweet with palm sugar and a sticky rice one, and I preferred the sticky rice one. It tastes like a Japanese mochi. 

Bali Swing

We stopped at a restaurant for lunch, and quite a few of the group went on the bali swing.

Put in a pink dress that was super hot in this weather, but I felt very pretty! Wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be. The scarier part was trying to climb into the nest that was in the trees. I had to stop on the ladder in the end as it was too scary, and I was worried it wouldn’t hold my weight.

Bat Cave Temple

Bat Cave Temple is 1 of the 8 holy temples in bali. We were lucky enough to go inside on full moon festivities. We saw people coming into pray, they had a routine of collecting water, which they used to wet their heads, face, and drink. They’d then stick rice on their forehead and eat some of the grains too.

We were allowed into the 3rd part of the temple, which is where they pray. Women had to wear sarongs to cover our legs, and if you  were on your period, you weren’t allowed in.

People had come with offerings of fruits to be blessed by the gods.
Odd numbers on statues, showing you are always trying to reach for perfection but it doesn’t exist in this world.

We arrived at our hotel in time for sunset!