#772 Thursday 26 December

It was another good night.  Today?  We will probably go hunting for a stone mason.

The living area has two large panels of carving on the wall ... and these have both deteriorated badly.

We had them fitted in the early days and since then we've become much more 'worldly' in the ways of Bali .... and we realise now that we were ripped of badly .... we probably paid about 4 times the correct price.  Ce la vie!

We will go to Batubulan where the carvings are made ..... and incidentally has a warung that makes the best nasi campur in Bali ... I think.  

We can stopped there for lunch.

The search for replacement wall carvings has been put on hold .... all the carvings are made of the same material and will suffer a similar fate!

This sort of thing is a possibility .... it will last and not be destroyed by the weather.

While out we passed the Bali Reptile Park ..... this was on Chris and Lara's 'to do list' ..... but when we were about to buy entrance tickets we found that the price was US$23.50 each!  For 5 of us that's a lot of money!  So we gave it a miss and headed for home.



And speaking of reptiles ...... not far from our place is the Hyatt Resort ... set in large gardens.   Last night one of the security guards found a python in the garden .... not unusual .... but he put he snake round his neck ...... and the snake killed him!  The silly man was from Java ... not a local.