Arrive in Bali, just about the first off the plane, first through passport. While waiting for our bags Niels takes off with Julia in hot pursuit. He heads through customs and into the garden area he’d spotted on they way from the plane.

Grabbed the bags, out into the greeting area and are met by Ketut who drives us straight to KlubKokos. KlubKokos is situated about a mile uphill from Ubud on a ridge surrounded by tree-filled gullies and rice paddies. Very quiet and nice.

As you follow the road south from Kokos the ridge narrows and becomes steep, and the road ends after about 200 meters with a pave-stone path. The path follows the crest of the ridge through tall grass, with terrific views down both the ayung and woos valleys.

Point is that Kokos is only about 0.5 mile from the Champuan bridge, but about a 5 mile drive since the road must go around the steep gullies. Kokos is on the ridge, but surrounded by rice paddies, the water is carefully channeled down the ridge and distributed to fields. The routing looks pretty sophisticated, I’ve seen men checking meters several times, I wonder how the water allocation works, do you think there is plenty to go around, especially during the rainy season? Or is like the American west?