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My Winter Travels Begin

By LadyE on Thursday, December 24th, 2009 | 4 Comments

Here I am in the KAL Lounge at Incheon Airport waiting for my flight to KL. The trip to the airport was uneventful once I told the taxi driver who was taking me to the bus stop to STOP going through the red lights. He laughed, but he listened. I am always impressed with the [...]

Canang Sari – Bali Offerings

By LadyE on Sunday, December 20th, 2009 | 2 Comments

One of the first things you will notice in your travels around Bali are the small colorful baskets of flowers on the sidewalks and roads in front of homes and businesses, and at the temples. Canang Sari are Hindu offerings to the gods. “Sari” means essence, and ‘canang” is the coconut leaf basket that the [...]