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fivemackLarge feudal empires tend to make for wonderful monuments: the taxes of the slaving peasants of Rajasthan are concentrated into a single Taj Mahal or Fatehpur Sikri.
Isolated cultures, particularly religious ones, on sufficiently fertile islands can make for wonderful and copious art; consider the Balinese gamelan or the Balinese temple. Ubud in Bali is basically an artist's colony, both for colonists and locals; the cash-cow for the locals is the production of large wooden statues, mostly of animals, apparently for the Saudi market. They're gorgeous, but a little difficult to take home.
Lombok is a small, not particularly fertile island (it's the accretions of many eruptions of Mount Rinjani); its rural parts look a bit richer than rural India, its urban parts are a bit more pleasant to wander around than Varanasi, but that's mostly because there are very few people there.
Accordingly I've moved the flight and will be back in Bali tomorrow, at which point I'll try to move the other flight and spend a bit longer in Singapore than I planned.
Isolated cultures, particularly religious ones, on sufficiently fertile islands can make for wonderful and copious art; consider the Balinese gamelan or the Balinese temple. Ubud in Bali is basically an artist's colony, both for colonists and locals; the cash-cow for the locals is the production of large wooden statues, mostly of animals, apparently for the Saudi market. They're gorgeous, but a little difficult to take home.
Lombok is a small, not particularly fertile island (it's the accretions of many eruptions of Mount Rinjani); its rural parts look a bit richer than rural India, its urban parts are a bit more pleasant to wander around than Varanasi, but that's mostly because there are very few people there.
Accordingly I've moved the flight and will be back in Bali tomorrow, at which point I'll try to move the other flight and spend a bit longer in Singapore than I planned.
