If you have only been in the Nusa Dua area (beach and 5 star resorts and shops), and if you have enough time, come up to Ubud (pronounced "oo-bood"). How much time is enough? Well, it takes about 1 hour each way by car. What would you see that's different from Nusa Dua? Terraced rice paddies (a healing, relaxing green), hills & trees, Balinese villages.
Different villages specialize in different arts - jewelry (gold & silver), wood carving, paintings (at least 7 different styles in 7 different villages), batik & ikat fabric making, basket weaving, carving & painting masks used in traditional dance and religious performances - and much, much more.
If the free afternoon includes evening, you could have dinner up here, too. Maybe try a Balinese specialty - bebek betutu (steamed spice duck - or you can get chicken prepared the same way), or grilled crispy duck. Or babi guling - roast pig.
If you want to stay near Nusa Dua, 2 favorite tourist sunset locations are the temple at Ulu Watu on the cliffs. And dinner at a fresh seafood restaurant at Jimbaran Bay; we've gone to "Aroma" several times. They usually offer at least 2 types of fish, shrimp / prawns, sometimes lobsters. And a choice of cooking methods and chili-spice levels. We usually go for grilled.
There's almost always a music (gamelan) or dance performance somewhere. While there are no major Balinese Hindu ceremonies Dec 10-15, there may be a village celebrating the "birthday" of its temple.
The head priest and 2 assistants - Nyoman's mother is farthest from the camera.
And here is the view that guests in the 2nd floor rooms will have! You see additional offerings for the ceremony in the foreground. And on the right-hand side, there is construction for another villa.
You get to meet farmers and see how the irrigation system works. The Balinese “subak” have operated for hundreds of years.
Crossing from one property to another is where some of the Trekking part of the excursion comes into play.
Good balance helps when crossing a bridge of 2 bamboo poles!
A rest break at a balé.
Looks like they’re having fun! 
Tired of walking? Climb a coconut tree
Even big sister takes a turn. (Climbing a regular vertical tree takes an entirely different technique!)
Back to the beginning – the driveway into Bhanuswari Resort & Spa, with adjoining rice paddies.
These folks (lower right corner) are taking a well deserved break - the Balinese version of resting in the shade of haystack.
Note the woman in the center - carrying probably at least 25 kilos / 50 pounds on her head. It could even be more! The smoke on the left is from burning rice stalks. When I was growing up, this type of burning was also done - even for people's lawns. I think the practice has almost died out in the USA now.
And those ducks were not just any ducks. Here are more of the other "rice field workers" - the trained ducks! (And more smoke from the burning rice straw.)
They line up on the edge of the flooded paddies, and jump in at the duck-herder's signal to go to work.
Here some are grooming and resting.
Just to add a little more "color" - some flowers for your viewing pleasure.
Cutting the rice plants.
A collection of heavily loaded rice plants.
To separate the grains of rice, the harvesters beat clumps against a wooden board.
Here you see flying grains of rice (against the dark pants) and collected grains on the woodend board.
Collecting the rice straw.
A well-deserved rest break.
A farmer collecting grass for his cows. The thing on the ground is a pole with an open basket at each end. When full, he will balance the pole on his shoulders to carry it.
A field almost ready for harvest in the foreground, and one that is being harvested in the background.
