In an island nation as large as Indonesia it seems appropriate that that there would be just as many diverse means of transportation. The symmetric beauty of rice fields near Ubud, Bali. While the panoramic vista and cultural diversity is enough to lure hundreds of thousands of tourists to Indonesia year after year, the excellent cuisine may very well be reason enough to chart your course for this enchanted archipelago. Roaming the back streets and local markets can be an adventure worthy of its own itinerary. On the island paradise of Jungut Batur, seaweed farming is an age-old tradition still practiced today.
Local families work together in cultivating the crop which is eventually exported to Japan.
Be it day or night, the locals work schedule is dictated by the ebb and flow of neap and high tides. With low tide exposure, farmers take advantage, harvesting and stringing new products between wooden stakes driven into the coral floor.