well, i made it to Ubud. i was up most of last night with my stomach in full revolt, plus a fever (touch of sunstroke, perhaps?)… it was not much fun, but perversely amusing to see how getting sick in a hot sweaty foreign country, in the middle of the night, can turn one into a real baby!!!
anyway, today’s travels went without incident, but i’ve not been able to venture far from “home” due to exigencies of stomach thing…! high hopes, tho’, for tomorrow and the next few days - Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary is just up the road, there are some gorgeous sounding old palace / temples and river valley walks to do here, and also, the 4 am trip to Mt Batur, a volcano whose summit is reportedly a sublime place to watch the sunrise from… i am staying in a huge, rambling, super-funky old hotel - must’ve been quite grand in its day, but now kind of falling apart beautifully (would that i could say the same!!! ha ha :)))…paving stones heaving up cracked and off-kilter, none of the heavy wooden doors or windows shut properly - but it’s gorgeous in its brokenness, there’s a pool, my personal balcony is shrouded in frangipani trees, breakfast is free, and it’s all of $20+ a night…! PS there are these weird flying things here - bats, i presume, but looking like a cross between bat, bird, and butterfly! - very speedy &erratic like a bat, but then they sometimes kind of float like a butterfly, and they look like tiny pointy-winged-&-tailed swallows… hmmm…and did i mention the dragonflies here yet??? SO gorgeous - they are velvety, like a butterfly, not scaly - even their wings…the one i saw the other day was the most beautiful almost burgundy deep red… oh my… monkeys tomorrow!!!! (just a bit excited, maybe…? :) i saw some on the drive in - they’re very numerous here, very cheeky and brazen, and VERY cute!!!
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