A few yards away, a dozen ducks march single file across a dirt berm, tails twitching, looking very businesslike. Local farmers hire the trained ducks to eat pests and clean the recently harvested fields, Cisneros explains, as we settle on the bamboo deck of Sari Organik, an organic restaurant.
These carefully terraced rice fields and the surrounding rivers are sacred grounds for the Balinese, an integral part of the spiritual soup that attracts mystics, seekers and legions of yoga teachers to Ubud.
Ubud (pronounced OO-bood) is where “Eat Pray Love” author Elizabeth Gilbert famously found love, making the jungle-covered town a sort of mecca for divorced women. Promotional photos for the movie version of Gilbert’s book, in theaters Friday, show a blissful Julia Roberts bicycling through rice fields not far from our breakfast spot. Read More> http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-ubud-20100808,0,1675987.story
