In Reply to: Pt7 On to Sanur posted by Cath on Friday, 8. December 2006 at 01:58 Bali Time:
The village near Ubud you're describing Cath is probably the wooden picture frame carving village of Petulu (a few km's north). Around 6.00, thousands of white herons arrive and perch in trees along the main road.
There are so many of them because no-one is allowed to harm, capture or bother them. It's believed that they are the souls of people killed after the attempted communist coup in 1965. The herons appeared a week after one of the worst massacres.