Denpasar

Here are some photos from Denpasar. It is a crazy city which has almost no tourism so you can generally spend the day there driving around and never notice another foreigner.

Each and every morning families and stores put offerings out in small reed boxes of which I'll have some photos posted soon. Each offering has a consistency to it, flowers, incense being the two most prevalent while they also have personalization in the form of cigaretts, candy bars, or crackers to name a few. After placing the offering and sprinkling blessed water upon it the incense is lit and a payer is offered. It is a beautiful ritual which is repeated each and every day. These are a few shots of the flower market in Denpasar for the offerings.

Kids and kites on a city street. I have to find out what the sign the kid third from the right is giving me means, I see it a lot.

A number of rivers flow through Denpasar, as filthy as they seem it doesn't stop people from fishing, washing and swimming in them. You can see a small girl and her sister watching from the window, they were waiving and smiling but I'm not sure if I caught it in this photo.

Kids are the same everywhere it seems, these tough nuts were fishing in a pond at a museum for carp.

At the same museum, which was closed, there was a couple in full traditional wedding dress.

Driving, well I'll speak about that at a later time, but of all the driving I've done, Denpasar is by far the most chaotic. It's a beautiful madness that slowly makes sense. There isn't the agression nor the spitefulness you find in North American cities. People let you in and accept that you're going to try to pass, on the inside shoulder, along the divide, and even between them. Yet they'll slow in order to make a gap for you if need it. Often you do. As it is, you can see all forms of transport still in use, though I'm assuming the horse drawn buggy is less popular.

This man is fishing in a river which is only a few feet deep. It runs through the center of Denpasar and like all rivers I've seen there is garbage floating by and scattered along the banks. Yet, despite the apparent pollution, with each skilled throw of his net he brings in many fish.