Check out these two (Balinese equivalents of garden gnomes?) awesome statues we saw at a huge roadside statue store while looking for the road that led to a ruin site called Yeh Pulu.
"The branches go downward and the roots upward. Similarly, this material world is a reflection of the spiritual world. The material world is but a shadow of reality. In the shadow there is no reality or substantiality, but from the shadow we can understand that there are substance and reality." - Bhagavad-gītā 15.01
The hotel had a massive banyan tree on their grounds. (The banyan tree is known for being the kind of tree the Buddha sat down in front of before becoming enlightened.
