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About an hour and half (!!!) after setting out, we finally managed to find the road near the Yeh Pulu ruin. When we got to the end of the road, we met a super-friendly local farmer/tour guide who offered to take us on a tour of his farmland and show us Yeh Pulu. It was awesome to walk on the narrow grass pathways that separate all the rice paddies.
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When our tour guide found out that we were on our honeymoon, he insisted on stopping every couple of minutes to take pictures of Meredith and I together. Doing things like...posing in front of the rice paddy! And...
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So pretty.
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View from the porch.
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Watching the ducks.
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...the resort's rice paddies. (Bali has done a really nice job of integrating a lot of their tourism with their local agriculture).
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The rice paddies were filled with huge flocks of ducks. The ducks protect the rice by eating pests, fertilize the paddies with their duck poop, and then after they've grown up eating bugs, they're cooked and served along with the rice.
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We went through a bunch of local villages and watched how rice is planted by pushing a handful of rice "shoots" down into the flooded soil.
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It was really interesting to see how the terraced paddy fields are carved right into the midst of dense forest.