{"id":80,"date":"2026-09-26T08:48:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/turns-out-i-brought-500-mates-to-the-temple\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T08:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:48:52","slug":"turns-out-i-brought-500-mates-to-the-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/turns-out-i-brought-500-mates-to-the-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Turns out I brought 500 mates to the temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hired a driver for the day and went up north to see the temple Pura Ulun Danu thinking it&#8217;d be a quiet, contemplative sort of outing. Turned out my 500 new best friends from the Mt. Batur tour had exactly the same idea, same temple, same day, same hour. It stopped being a spiritual pilgrimage and started feeling like a school reunion, a Buddhist speed-dating event, and a fire hazard, all rolled into one. The temple itself earned every bit of the crowd though &#8211; beautifully restored, the kind of place that makes you forget you&#8217;re standing shoulder to shoulder with half a tour bus company. Even the weather did its bit, no humidity worth complaining about, which is basically a miracle. I came for enlightenment and left with a much better appreciation for personal space.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-dc5c049c-091e-4232-94bc-62b0052f1487.jpg\" alt=\"Turns out I brought 500 mates to the temple\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-4a3b4176-3ca0-44b3-810f-430476b17105.jpg\" alt=\"Turns out I brought 500 mates to the temple\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-96e49968-6f76-4b68-961a-843cf0a6be88.jpg\" alt=\"Turns out I brought 500 mates to the temple\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-08e55657-95cf-4f55-9e72-a9fe1c865915.jpg\" alt=\"Turns out I brought 500 mates to the temple\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/relay-fc8e45e5-7638-45ea-830f-ad6dce0cfceb.jpg\" alt=\"Turns out I brought 500 mates to the temple\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hired a driver for the day and went up north to see the temple Pura Ulun Danu thinking it&#8217;d be a quiet, contemplative sort of outing. Turned out my 500 new best friends from the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exploring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbaraschwarzmann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}