I had taken my camera to the snake farm….and as i looked a piar of the ring pythons were mating !

cooool…but unfortunatly I missed it with the camera… But thats life !

This was an unique experiance, It was a very hot sunday and the last race of the season,
Its really hard to describe the atmosphere, The idea is for 2 charriots to race around a half mile track, they are timed but overtaking is allowed….
As you can see from the photos very strict safety was followed…lol…quite a few times the teams of bulls veered off into the crowd, one time the bulls went into a food stall….
It was as amazing experiance, to see this you have to head all the way to the west of bali, but it is well worth it,

There coming !!!

There going !!!!

No workers on day 12, both days turned out to be important balinese religious days !
They are back on the case today, Most of the walls are having their final coat of plaster, and the final wall is being made,

They are also starting to put the piping in for the ponds, so its still looking hopeful for the end of the week to be finished !

Wow,

Nobody working today, they all have religious ceremonies !

I took the opportunity to have a look at where the sun is falling, looks good.

Day 10, not many builders here today but they are all doing the plastering work and a bit of digging on the ponds,

The walls are starting to look smooth and are nice and strong (I was wandering around on top),

The ponds are only just at the beginning, they will drain out into a small stream which runs along outside of the walls.

Well we are 2 days into the second week now, its gone very fast. Today was a bit of a late start for the team here as there were heavy rains last night which continued to around 9am,

The plastering is going really well,

The new walls show no sign of damage from the heavy rains! which is good, but I must discuss the 1 week guarentee with the builders…is it from the end of the building process….LOL….

Couple more photos of the progress,

Not a huge difference to report today, the plastering is continuing, and the weather has been dry during the day.

The contractor who is organising the builders bought a new mobile phone…so he must be happy making money from the project.

Anyway…..some photos of the progress, I’m getting quite excited about moving the tegus to here !!!.

Today the plastering of the walls started, its not a small task !

The “wenches” moved the sand from outside to inside.

There are no cement mixers being used here, everything is being done by hand, which is kind of nice as you dont get the thudding of machinery all day.

I am slightly concerned a coconut will fall on one of the builders, sometimes in the night I can hear coconuts falling with a big thud. But they dont seem to care !

A few photos of the progress and also a couple of the “wenches” moving the sand in, they seem to work really hard I just wonder if they pay the ladies…lol….

Work ethics are different here in bali, you will quite often see women doing the heavy lifting and moving of building materials, while the men either sleep…or maybe watch TV….

At the end of day 6 things are looking really good, most of the main enclosures are finished

The path at the front needs to be repaired, and still a couple of minor constuction jobs to do. The next job for them is to start to smooth the walls over.

Each wall is very big so allot of sand and cement will be used! Tonight a large lorry of sand was delivered, so I will snap some photos of its movement into the enclosure tomorrow.