Indonesian/Balinese Food!!

We loved Balinese food! is just super tasty and quite spice! here is a collection of the best meals we had while in Bali :)

This menu we found it quite cute! and it has the main Indonesian/Balinese specialty,

In Nusa Lembongan we found a really nice Warung (local restaurant) which had amazing food! it was so good that we kept on going there!

Green Curry

They had some amazing juices!! papaya and watermelon!

Red Curry

Tuna cooked in banana leaves

Amazing Banana pancake

Fried Rice with meat

Spicy vegetables with meat and rice!

While in Ubud we found this amazing Warung Dewa! everything that you ordered was super tasty and sooo cheap! we ended up having dinner ther every evening! :) and we meet really interesting people on those communal tables

vegetable noodle soup

spring roles

yummy spice noodles with meat

chicken with vegetables

vegetarian curry!! it was just amazinggg

Caju chicken

Mint and lemon juice!

we can only say... SUPER YUMMY!!!!

Ubud: The cremation

While in Ubud we had the opportunity to attend a Hindu religious celebration, the cremation of the recent family that passed away. Once a family member passes away the family starts gathering money to proceed to their cremation. This can take some time as the cremation celebration is quite expensive. So they first bury their dead and after when they have enough money for the cremation celebration they dig them up and clean the bones which are after places in an animal status which is burned.

all the family dressed up for the event,

The offers for the deceased that are after placed inside the animal statue,

Moving on to the places where the cremation will take place,

After they place the animal statue in a platform ready to be burned,

This cremation is done together with other villages in order to have a cheaper price,

while you wait for the ceremony to start you can have some nice snacks! Fried tofu with a spice sauce,

this one we had never seen :) ice-cream sandwich with bread!

The atmosphere on this event is quite different of an western cremation, all the family gets together and it looks more like a celebration of the dead rather than mourning people.

When the time arrives this is how it looks like,

Ubud: The bicycle diaries

While in Ubud we rented some bikes and went exploring the rice fields!

the rice fields are just a gorgeous view!

we passed by a village specialized in doing wooden hand chairs,

they ladies working were extremely nice! even though we didn´t spoke the same language they invited us to check their work. Always with a big smile in their face :)

we saw the preparations for the cremations. The statue in the image below is used to store the bones of the deceased and after is completely burned.

checking out the map to see what was the best way to the Monkey forest,

the monkeys seem pretty cute in the pictures but they were very aggressive, trying to steal peoples bags to check if there was any food there :P

apparently in Bali all the kids have a uniform for school :) these kids looked super cute going to school all together :)

ahh what a view!