Behind the tons upon tons of rice export­ed by South­east Asia is an unpre­dictably stun­ning rur­al topography—imagine stacked pad­dies glow­ing green, cre­at­ing mes­mer­iz­ing designs in the hill­sides of Bali, Indone­sia. These scenes occur all around the island, in the Tegalalang vil­lage north of Ubud, in east­ern Bal­i’s Side­men, and Jatiluwih (where they’re largest) in the west. UNESCO added Bal­i’s rice ter­races to the World Her­itage list in 2012 due to the ninth-cen­­tu­ry “water tem­ples” that act as a coop­er­a­tive water man­age­ment sys­tem for farm­ing.