Venture into the South-East Asian countryside, and you will inevitably see some rice paddies. Bali is the same. Drive 30 minutes out of Denpasar and you will be surrounded by sawah (the Indonesian word for ‘rice paddies’).

Drive further into the foothills, and the sawah get positively scenic.

They are places that are full of life. My hotel in Ubud was next to a sawah and every morning I watched the ducks feed.

Those tourists who don’t venture outside of their resorts in Bali are certainly missing out.