Today we visited the northern side of Bali. Most cruises only go to the southern part of Bali. My excursion today was “Rice Terrace, Temple Visit and Organic Farm Village”. I was particularly interested in the rice terraces as I’ve seen many beautiful pictures of them.
This is the description of the excursion from the Shore Excursion handout: “Drive to the Kekeran Rice Terrace (approx. 1hr). Visit (approx.30min). Drive to Bengkel Village (approx. 15min). Visit the Organic Farm, Pak Oles (approx.45min). Drive to Banjar Village (approx. 1hr). Visit the Buddhist Temple of Brahmavihara Arama (approx.45min). Drive to a restaurant (approx.30min). Lunch (approx. 1hr). Drive to Krisna Oleh Oleh souvenir shop (approx. 15min). Free time to shop for souvenirs (approx.30min). Drive back to the pier (approx.1hr).” They don’t necessarily follow the order but they do stop at each of the stops.
It’s been warm, cloudy and humid most of this trip- which makes sense as we are here in the rainy season.
Before I went on the excursion, I visited the medical center because of a persistent cough. I’ve been coughing so much that last night I left the room and spent the night on the pool chairs and in the library so Jennifer could sleep. Other than the cough I felt fine.
The doctor listened to my lungs and ordered an x-ray to be sure everything was ok. It was kinda expensive but luckily showed no trouble other than the start of pneumonia. She gave me antibiotics, steroids and codine and the ‘ok’ to go on today’s excursion. Almost immediately after taking the medicine, I was coughing less and tonight I hardly coughed at all when I went to bed.
