The question "how many temples fit on one island?" can be answered with "an unbelievable quantity"!! Every family has at least one, every village at least three, not to mention the ones in between rice paddies and beside the road. We stopped counting after the first hour on the island and we stopped visiting temples after having visited about 20 of them. :-)
We tried to avoid the crowds of tourists in Resorts, Starbucks and Pizza Huts by heading east, west and north, and central :-) with the smallest car available. This turned out to be THE advantage of the day, as the road is so narrow, that in between of the houses or palmtrees on the left roadside, the group of children walking on the road, the motorbike on the left side of our car, our car, the motorbike on the right side of your car overtaking us, the motorbike overtaking the truck on the other side of the road, the truck on the other side of the road and the motorbike on the right outer side of the truck on the right roadside, and the person walking between the motorbike on the outer side of the truck and the houses and trees on the right roadside, was on average 1 cm, if not less.
We both ended up with a lot of new grey hair during our 7 days car-ride through Bali Island.
But on the good side ;-): we learned to no longer believe in "saftey distances" when driving but instead to believe in "Holy men" sprinkling our car with "Holy Water".
So if you take a look at the pictures please stop a second to appreciate how hard it was to hunt down all those temples monoevering for hours through millions of motorbikes, mountains, cars, trucks, people, houses and temples and "Tourists on bicycles"!!! ( :-O!!!)
Have Fun! :-)
Renate & Rainer
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