Photography
Bali Island
About Bali
バリで印象的だったのは湖畔に浮かぶ寺院が美しいウルン・ダヌ・ブラタン寺院で、バリ島で画像検索したら真っ先に出てくるくらい有名な場所であるが、空港のある繁華街のテンパザルからタクシーで約3時間ほどの山奥の湖までいかなくてはならない。朝焼けがどうしても写真に収めたかったので湖から徒歩５分ほどのホテルを予約し、翌朝の朝日が昇る前に撮影に出発した。寺院は思っていたよりは広くなく10分あれば回りきれてしまうほどで、天気はあいにくの曇りだった。
What impressed me in Bali was the beautiful Ulun Danu Beratan Temple on the shore of the lake, which is so famous that you can find it first when you search for images in Bali, but you can take a taxi from Tempazar, the downtown area where the airport is located. I have to go to the lake in the mountains for about 3 hours. I really wanted to take a picture of the sunrise, so I booked a hotel about 5 minutes on foot from the lake and set out to shoot before the sunrise the next morning. The temple isn't as big as I expected, and the weather is unfortunately cloudy as it can be reached in 10 minutes. So I'm cheating by image processing.
UBUD Area
もう一つ忘れられないのが2泊したクプクプバロンというホテルで、部屋のすぐ目の前はジャングルでアユン渓谷という川が流れている景色は最高。起伏がある敷地内は広く坂道も多いので電動カートでの移動となるが、あえて歩いて探検するだけでも面白い。日本からホテルへ直接予約したバードネストという鳥かごのようなレストランで食事なども。 他には水浴びしてから入る聖なる泉が沸く「ティルタ・エンプル寺院」、秘境感あふれる「トゥカッ チュプンの滝」、最終日の「チャンプアンリッジ」という綺麗な散歩道の途中で寄った蓮の花と田園が目の前に広がる素敵なカフェも日本には無い雰囲気を楽しめて最高だった。
Another unforgettable hotel is Kupu Kupu Barong, where I stayed for two nights. The view of the river Ayung Valley in the jungle right in front of the room is the best. The undulating site is wide and there are many slopes, so you will need to use an electric cart, but it is interesting to just walk and explore. You can also eat at a birdcage-like restaurant called Bird Nest, which you booked directly from Japan to the hotel. Other than that, there are the "Tirta Empul Temple" where the sacred spring that you enter after bathing, the "Tukachupun Waterfall" with a sense of seclusion, and the lotus flower that you stopped by during the beautiful walking path called "Champuan Ridge" on the final day. There was no nice cafe in Japan with the countryside in front of me, which was great.
