29 July

Bedugul one of the food bowl areas of Bali, on a round about there is this huge cement sweetcorn husk with all the – about 2 meters tall resplendent in yellow and green. There is lots of food grown around here, broccoli, strawberries, as well flowers – orchids. At the Botanical Gardens in Bedugul there is a tourist attraction called Tree top adventures. A Flying fox through the trees sounded like fun. That sounded good until you realise you have to put a harness on with clips etc.  Everyone looks as if they are wearing a nappy!! When you are high up on platforms and walking on steel cables you are very grateful of ‘the nappy’. I had to face my fears of heights and my lack of co-ordination was exposed.

It cost US$21 and in rupiah it was 199,500. That was Rosie and Leah on the black course - too extreme for me.

On the way to Bedugul we stopped at one of the coffee houses where you can sample Bali Coffee, Civat Cat Coffee - coffee Lubak and chocolate. The next photo is of cacao fruit that is ripe. The taste of the fruit outside the seeds is like a mangostein with a probable chocolate edge. The seeds you cannot eat and need to be fermented/curing before they are used as chocolate.