The morning of my first full day in Ubud, I had signed up to go on a bicycling tour that some of my friends here had gone on a few months ago. The van came to pick me up at 7:30 and had already picked up a couple from Germany and three Danish people who were to be my tour group. Before we started the actual cycling section, we stopped and had a mini-tour of a coffee plantation. We learned all about how coffee is grown, roasted, and ground. Then we were given a selection of different coffees and teas to sample. They were all delicious in their own way, but my favorite was Balinese coffee.
Who doesn't start off the day with 8 cups of coffee?
a path through a section of the coffee plantation
Our next stop was to have a quick breakfast at a picturesque viewing point of a volcano, Mt. Batur. I had yet another cup of coffee and banana fritters. (Again with the bananas!) It was at this place where we were given our helmets and bicycles for the day and started the pleasant downhill cycle.
delicious but not so nutritious
As we cycled through Bali we stopped at a traditional Balinese family compound as well as many different rice paddies. The ride was very enjoyable and ended with a delicious Indonesian lunch of chicken sate, fried rice, steamed vegetables, fried noodles, and of course, another cup of coffee.
Bali is a Hindu island in the middle of primarily Muslim Indonesia, so this pig (and the pork it represented) was a sight for sore eyes.
Yum!
Proud member of the CPC (Clean Plate Club) since 1987
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