On our first day we did the Bali Eco Bike Tour. It covered a lot of ground, starting with breakfast at Kintamani, an area with the volcano Mt. Batur (last erupted in '63) and a beautiful crater lake with so much sulfur in it that the fish have to be eaten the same day they are caught.
From there we went to an organic farm where we learned about some herbs and tasted the famous poop coffee (Luwak). I also tasted the leaf of a cinnamon tree which was quite cool. The Luwak Kopi was $5-6/cup which is expensive here. It was good (not amazing but what I do I know about coffee?), it's amazing it doesn't taste like poop..
Turmeric and ginger root, sampler, Luwak Kopi:
Cooking poop beans:
After this we got on our bikes and rode through Balinese villages. We stopped first at a homestead and learned about the culture. I won't give all the details but every home has a temple and beautiful unique stonework. It seemed even the poorest families had this. 
From there we hopped back on our bikes and then stopped so our guide could show us these gold spiders...
Next was a big Banyan tree which roughly means tree of life - it was the type of tree the one in the movie Avatar was based on. This one was hundreds if years old.
Final stop before a delicious lunch was at some rice paddies and we got to see some women harvesting the rice.
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