I’m lying on a white sand beach, the sun warming my back, getting a massage while having sips of a fresh watermelon juice and waiting for our lunch of fresh mahi mahi satay with peanut sauce. I am on a…
Balinese mythical creatures ~ intermediaries between humans and gods
Balinese mythology is not a distant topic that Balinese children study in school and promptly forget. How could they? it’s all around… After just a few days here, we have zero grounding to talk authoritatively about the individual actors in…
A most surprising find: Bali’s Long Tailed Gray Macaque ~ Bali , Indonesia
This entry may only interest those of you out there who have a bond with animals. Dogs and cats and the occasional goat have made their way into Peta’s heart. Ubud offers us an unexpected opportunity to engage frequently with…
Bali, Indonesia ~ Island of the Gods
It is easy to see why Bali is known as the “Island of the Gods”. It is lush; it is tropical; it is bright green and beautiful … There is an abundance of beauty and something in the air that…
Animal update, Hoi An, Viet Nam.
It was only a matter of time. Inevitably a feline would cry out for help. A first kitten rescue led us to host kitty #1 out of our hotel room in Hoi An. After just a bit of food and…
Back “home” in Tra Que, Hoi An, Viet Nam
Before leaving for Cambodia, we found a house to rent. The reason we selected this house, is the fact that it is a five minute bike ride from An Bang beach and has Tra Que organic garden as our “back…
Of ephemeral and permanent beauty ~ with butterflies and silkworms in Cambodia
Banteay Srey is a butterfly farm outside Siem Reap. The center was started by a Danish man, to create work for local families by cultivating and exporting butterflies and cocoons. An enclosed atrium is packed with butterflies, at all stages…
Rural Cambodia
In the rice paddies, farmers transplant the young rice seedlings Wait! Are we in Nicaragua or Cambodia? Classic thatch wall, house on stilts. This is Cambodia, but it could be rural Nicaragua (Rosita)… “same same”, but different. Note the huge…