As Mary and Jubie lay in bed the second night in Amed (we ran out of things to do around 7pm) they looked at each other and both agreed that they wanted to go home, well shall we say the most recent place that felt like a home, Puri Asri. So they called up their friends at Puri Asri and said they had run out of things to do at the beach- and Jubie and Mary were happily welcomed back!
The next morning Made arrived and off they went toward Ubud, with a stop to the traditional village,Tenganan, along the way. We again felt rather trapped as tourists here as it was set up (seemingly to us) as yet another way to sell stuff to the tourists. I suppose we should expect this, but somehow it is always disappointing. Nonetheless we enjoyed seeing the weaving, the making of the triple icot fabrics and the making of the lontar-leaf books and calendars. The lontar- leaf process is done with tiny etching and the etchings are colored with macademia nut. Many of the fabrics from the village are dyed in the old ways using nature. We heard that buffalo were allowed to roam freely in the village, but if they were there, we didn’t notice, it was pretty quiet overall. Mary and Jubie met the village musician who introduced them to some of the very old gamelan instruments which were tuned with a seven note scale as opposed to the more common pentatonic or five tone scales.
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