We hired a car and escaped Seminyak. The resort resembles a touristified greek island and like Beloved said "if this is the upmarket resort what are the downmarket ones like?". We did have some good food though and Blackpool it was not. The island has incredibly lush vegetation. The soil is volcanic ash and the climate tropical with rain for half the year (this half) so eveything grows like jungle. The main crop is rice grown in terraced paddyfields using irrigation channels that date back to the bronze age. They are all flooded at the moment although some have a full standing crop others look relatively recently planted. There are also coconut palms and banana plants and the roadside stall sell a vast array of strange fruits, rambutan, papaya, and the durian fruit which smells so bad that most hotels ban it but apparently tastes delicious.
There are bamboo stands and plants with muticoloured leaves.
We have both a bungalow at a hotel by the beach (view from porch below) and a huge car with very comfy seats for the price of the hotel in Seminyak so it is worth getting out of the main resort area. Beloved worried about how much petrol we would use and decided to put £12 worth in and see how we got on but the petrol wouldn't fit and he got a full tank and change. It turns out it's 30p a litre. Indonesia of which Bali is part is an oil producing country.
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