Blessed

Rocky temple

So we actually decided to do something with our lives, we went on a mini tour with Marleigh and Edi our driver. We started the day with going to the gym of course, to lift some stuff and put it down then had breakfast at alchemy. Should we have skipped alchemy? Probably with the time crunch we were under but... No, it's way to vital for our wellbeing. 

After breakfast we walked home, showered and walked back down the path to meet Edi and to go pick up Mar on the way to our first stop. We drove maybe 30-40 minutes and got to the Rocky Temple, which was truly beautiful and nothing like we had ever seen. Not only did we take loads of stunning pictures, we also go to see some traditional Balinese engagement pictures. Their outfits were so extravagant and so different from what you would see back home, it was rad to see.

Gymnast on the right, useless technique on the left...

After we were finished with taking so many pictures and fooling around with the famous selfie stick we walked back up the what felt like thousand stairs in the scorching heat. Once back at the car, Edi drove us to our second destination, which was the Holy Spring Temple. 

Before entering the temple we put on some sorongs and headed in to get blessed by some holy water. Not too sure what makes it holy but there clearly are a lot of people that believe in it because the spring was super busy with all kinds of people. At first we just jumped in and figured we'd just do on prayer and one dunking of our heads under the water and peace out, but it wasn't quite this simple.

As we got into a line to get to the spout thing where the water was coming out of, we were told by a friendly man that the way it works is that you start at the first one on the far left then work you way down to the last one on the far right. It took about 30 minutes to go through all of them and by the 3 one I was ready to pack it in, but I figured it be best if I just finish them all. 

After getting blessed with holy water and walking through a cold spring inhabited by really large fish, we were ready to go dry off. We return the sorongs and went back to meet Edi so he could bring us to the gorgeous rice terrace before going back to Ubud.

Getting blessed by holy water

All in all it was a great day and super awesome to finally do something different! Don't get me wrong I extremely enjoy all our lazy days but it was nice to get out of town for a few hours. Now to get ready for Friday, as we have to leave Vilła Lebah and find us a new home for the rest of our stay in Bali. We are on the search for a place with a pool, because we feel that our tans are fading which is completely unacceptable.

Anyway that's all for now my friends

A bientot,

Janelle Brine