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We rented a scooter today and decided to try and go to Tanah Lot.  From the Lonely Planet:

"The brilliantly located Pura Tanah Lot is possibly the best known and most photographed temple on Bali.  It’s an obligatory stop on many tours from South Bali, very commercialized, and especially crowded at sunset. 

For the Balinese, Pura Tanah Lot is one of the most important and venerated sea temples.  Like Pura Luhur Ulu Watu, at the tip of the southern Bukit Peninsula, and Pura Rambut Siwi to the west, it is closely associated with the Majapahit priest, Niratha.  It’s said that each of the ’sea temples’ was intended to be within sight of the next, so they formed a chain along Bali’s southwestern coast - from Pura Tanah Lot you can certainly see the cliff-top site of Pura Ulu Watu, and the long sweep of sea shore around to Perancak, near Negara."

Scootin’ is FUN!

Tourists look at a huge bat at one of the souvenir shops.

Moi

Pura Tanah Lot - crawling with tourists.  Unfortunately, only Balinese may enter the temple.

Guess what else!?!  I saw Bjork in Bali!  As we were walking around Tanah Lot, we were making our way back up the hill to see a different section of the grounds.  Someone familiar walked by me, and I did a double-take, thinking, ?Oh my god.  I think that?s Bjork!?  I looked back behind me to get a second look.  She was wearing something that looked like a rayon muumuu with her bra and large panties clearly visible.  What really convinced me, were the weird sandals she was wearing, maybe reminiscent of the Icelandic Ugg?  I eagerly told Ras that I thought it was Bjork.  He asked me, ?How do you know??  ?Come on!  Look at the way she?s dressed!  She looks like an eccentric musician wearing wacky clothes brought from a Goodwill in Iceland.?  In all honesty, I?m not even a fan of Bjork, and don?t even know one song she sings.  Still, I?m a celebrity gossip monger, and am SURE it was here.  I distintly saw the cirucular tatoo on her left arm.  You can find a link, with a picture of her and the tatoo HERE.  My first celebrity sighting was eeing Bjork in Bali? weird.

Visible pantie lines.  That’s SO 80’s.

Oh No!  Somebody stop the water from touching my feet!