Ubud: performances

We spend the first few evenings attending a variety of traditional Balinese music and dance performances. We prefer Laka Lele just down the road from us where we can eat and attend the show free (as long as we eat). We note a repeated storyline of men in meditation, beautiful girl/god distraction, battle or crisis, then big, funny, wise white hairy god seems to bring peace and understanding to the conflict and eventually harmony is restored. The music reflects what we hear each morning in the nature around us. A cacophony of noises and sounds settle into a slower, softer background that randomly erupts into wild rants of high pitched frenzy (like the birds chirping over the monotony of frog calls).