....and so all the visits were already gone and before we knew it we have 2 weeks left on our little paradise island! We have had a (for what we were used to) busy couple of months with almost constantly friends staying in our house and in the middle of it Rino had to finish his thesis. We had a lot of fun with everyone, have seen and done new things in Bali and seen a lot for the 2nd and 3rd time, which was more than worth it every time! Amazingly we don’t get tired of beautiful rice paddies, Bali jungle and cruising around on the scooter. Because of the seasons of the rice fields it looks different every time and every stage of it is stunning again in different ways. The fields just filled with water, the newly planted baby rice, farmers standing to their knees in the mud planting the rice, the growing green rice, the yellowish rice ready for harvest, the harvest with all the farmers together in the fields and then the fields right after harvest. It all makes the landscape look different and it all has its new beauty!
Pictures of the stages of rice farming :-)
The last visit was from Anneloes and Marloes. There was a lot of partying, scootering and enjoying all aspects of Bali together, beach by day, beach by night, snorkeling, trekking and experiencing the culture.
Weekend trip
In the weekend we went together exploring parts of Bali. We did Ubud and surroundings, went by scooter through beautiful central Bali to the east, where we did a 4 hour trekking route in Tirta Gangga. Seeing the fantastic rice fields, some viewpoints and a perfect route to see some of the real Bali and how people live, outside the tourist areas. Sunday after Tirta Ganga Rino went home to work on Monday. We three girls went further east to Amed to snorkel. We found a bungalow on the beach for a really good price including dinner and breakfast. Snorkeling right out of the beach, Amed is simply fantastic, now in the dry season the water also was incredibly clear. Monday we took the fantastic route to Ujung along the coast and slowly back home again. On the way we stopped for lunch at the beautiful place Kebun Impian , where Rino and I stayed once before. We also stopped on White sand beach for a swim before heading back to Seminyak.
Spa & fun
The girls and I didn’t meet since our unbelievable experience with our thesis last year, winning two money prices. We wanted to spoil ourselves one day and we sure did. I’m spoiled every single day here of course, I am well aware of that. But the girls are hard working nurses and could really use a treat like this. 3 hours spa: body massage, facial and pedicure & foot massage. Ever going to Bali? Take a lot of spa treatments, it is SO cheap! After the spa we walked to Cocoon, a luxury looking club/restaurant down at the beach, with a swimming pool, big comfy beds and gooooood (read: expensive) food and drinks. The beds are free if you have food and drinks, so its not too bad, but you feel like a spoiled rich kid, but hey we actually were this day ;-)
We ended this fantastic day with the best party in Bali: the beach party at La Plancha, which we enjoy every three weeks. And it was a success as usual, as much fun as it could possibly be! :-)
Siv Hege, our friend from Norway stopped by Bali for a couple of days on her 12 months around the world trip. She timed it perfect and could join us for the beach party. Check out her travel blog (its Norwegian) on siviwonder.com.
Friends & fun
We have been partying more than usual the last weeks, because of visits of the party girls Sarah, Marloes and Anneloes ;-) It has been a lot of fun and we have been getting to know more people because of getting out more. Our new favourite, despite that we don’t like Kuta, is Cow bar. Its not so much the bar, but because of Chalie, a friend playing there on Wednesdays with our new friend Roger. And because of the girls, Ella and Yeni, who work there. Within 10 minutes the first time we came there we noticed that these girls are too much fun. Such sweet, genuine and funny Balinese girls, we are so happy to have the pleasure to have met you Asbak & Rekening! ;-)
One more thing: you all should check out Nok La Fiesta, a Thai girl we met here. She is a huge talent with her guitar, rhythm and voice! She travels around playing and saving money to someday be able to go to South America and play her music. We just love her. Check her out on youtube and facebook :-)
Showing posts with label Amed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amed. Show all posts
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Time for friends and travelling
1½ week ago Mailiss & Erling arrived from Norway, for a 2-week holiday on Bali. And they brought the sun and good weather with them. The last 2 weeks before they came it had been raining a lot every day, more than we have seen in the 8 months we live here. Luckily it stopped and Bali shows its very best side to our dear visitors. The first 9 days we spend time together and at the moment they have some romantic days on their own in a beach hotel. Last week we were hanging on different beaches and just relaxing, showing the good, slow Balinese life. Iris also took them on a daytrip to Ubud, showing the foundation she worked at and just to see Ubud, which is our favourite place in Bali. Both Mailiss and Erling practiced a couple of times on driving the scooter in Bali traffic and after a couple of days we drove easily around both to Ubud and to Balangan beach in the south. Especially Mailiss just loved it. After driving scooter for many years in the past, it was a familiar and fun activity for her! For us it is fun to have people over and see Bali through new eyes again. Even though we highly appreciate our blessed everyday life here and enjoy every second. It is good to see how others react when they see things, realizing how easily we actually adapt and get used to things, we almost forget that all this wasn’t to natural when we first came here. We probably get a new culture shock when we come back home to Norway and the Netherlands…
Mailiss & Erling have a camera with a good function for panorama pictures, which we miss a lot, with all the nature and beaches we photograph here on Bali. We are so happy to have some panorama pictures now from this paradise island!
“Our” beach in Seminyak
Beautiful Geger beach with seaweed farming in the water
Weekend trip
We had booked Nyoman, who was our guide once before, to be our guide together with his driver Komang for 3 days in a row this time. Nyoman is a good guide and good company to travel with and Komang is a humble and good driver that makes us feel safe. We wanted to show Mailiss & Erling a variety of the beauty of Bali, a mix of things we had seen before and things we also still wanted to see or do. One of those things was to climb Gunung (mount) Batur and see the sunrise. Saturday at 8am we were picked up and started our journey. The weather was beautiful, we were excited to show Bali we have learned to love so much and
M&E were excited to see so much of Bali’s other beauty after a week enjoying the beaches.
We headed to the north with a waterfall, rice fields and a couple of temples in mind. We visited the royal temple Taman Ayun in Mengwi. When you think you have seen all kind of temples in Bali, you get to see a new one that looks again different than the ones you saw before. Again a beautiful temple to see and to photograph without it looking just like our other pictures. After this we drove to the UNESCO world heritage nominated rice terraces in Jatiluwih. We had been there before and we really want everybody visiting Bali to see this almost artificial landscape and magnificent rice fields. We would like to see it with newly planted rice once, but just like last time the rice was already high now. Beautiful, but the view is probably totally different with young rice, we hope to maybe see this one time before leaving Bali.
Panorama view on Jatiluwih
Close to Jatiluwih the public temple Pura Luhur Batukaru is laying on the foot of Gunung Batukaru. Today there was an important ceremony going on in whole Bali, especially for all school kids and students, Hari Raya Saraswati. A ceremony to thank the Goddess of learning, science, and literature through offerings and prayer. In and around the temple we saw around 1000 children and teenagers in Balinese clothing bringing their own small offering to the temple. We had never seen such a massive ceremony with so many people waiting to make their offering. Teenagers were actually standing in line to get in to the praying area. Just like back home we stand in line for a concert or something else, laughing, talking and just being like teenagers are. It looked and sounded so familiar in one way, but then again so different.
We took of over the mountains and towards Singaraja. On the way down we still had daylight and time to see Gitgit waterfall. A nice short walk towards and a beautiful waterfall, but too many souvenir shops along the path and too much “cheap, cheap”, “1dollar, 1dollar”, “yes, please shopping, shopping?” We stopped in Singaraja to eat some food and watch the sunset from the nice warungs on the old harbour front.
It was getting dark and we were tired and full of impressions from the day. Komang drove us safely to Kintamani, the village in front of Gunung Batur, the mountain we were going to climb at 4am next morning….
After the climb on Batur (see further down) it was still morning and we wanted to take it easy the rest of the day, after a volcano climb you are not taking inn so much more that day. Amed on the east coast was the destination and relaxing and snorkelling was the plan. Nyoman and Komang once again drove us safely and were great company. We booked a nice and clean hotel with swimming pool for the night. After some snorkelling, swimming and beers we were more than satisfied of the day went to bed early.
Monday late morning Nyoman and Komang picked us up and we slowly headed to the west and back home with a couple of destinations on the way. Tirta Gangga water palace is one place to be if you are in Bali, it is a peaceful and beautiful Royal palace and temple and most of all a big garden to explore and admire. The restaurant with view over the garden is slightly expensive, but highly worth the money. The food is fantastic, the service is good and the view is rewarding.
View on Tirta Gangga
Back in the car we made a route through Sidemen road which one of the most beautiful valleys to drive through in Bali. We had a few stops, a small traditional Ikat weaving factory and we also made a visit to the only resort in the area, just to have a look. If you want to experience peace of mind and harmony just by staying at a place, you should stay a night or more at Surya Shanti in Sidemen. We are thinking of it, even though it’s quite above our budget (donations are accepted ;-) ). Combination of the amazing rooms, interior, atmosphere, swimming pool and not to forget the indescribable view, makes it just an oasis in the middle of Bali.
To end our day and long weekend with almost overkill in input we visited Gyanyar evening marked, which is supposed to be very nice and cosy. Erling and Rino tried to eat Babi Guling (suckling pig) and burned their mouth out of the spicy local food and we walked through the marked and just experienced the Balinese roaring marked life. We went home and let the weekend and all the experiences sink in on us.
Gunung Batur
We have been looking forward to climb a volcano already since we came here. But in the rain season its not really recommended and often the passes are even closed. Now the wet season is slowly ending and with all the visits coming up we wanted to finally go for it. Gunung Batur is a 2-hour hike up the 1717m high mountain and you see sunrise from the top. M&E were also excited, none of us had ever seen or climbed a volcano.
After a banana pancake and coffee at 3.30 in the morning, Wayan, the guide picked us up and we started the hike in the dark with flashlights and enthusiasm. Through forests in the beginning, followed by steep and curvy paths up the side of the mountain. We took a few small drinking stops and admired the dark valley of Kintamani and lake Batur beneath us under the stars. Slowly a tiny hint of purple light was coming up on the east horizon and we continued our climb up to the top. Wayan, our guide is a highly experienced senior guide, born and raised in the area. He made us feel safe and always on ease and had a perfect tempo for the 4 of us. Sweaty but not too exhausted we arrived on the top op Gunung Batur and together with a few other groups and guides we could take in the stunning view, while the sun minute by minute made its entrance on the landscape around us. The big crater and all the details of the volcano slowly became visible for us. It was such a rewarding feeling to stand there together the 4 of us at 6.30 and look at the beauty around us and smell, see and feel the volcano we stood on. The steam poring out everywhere, the hot stones we could touch and the fact that we could boil eggs in the steam in the mountainside was so fascinating! Breakfast on a volcano: Mountain steam boiled eggs and mountain steam cooked banana sandwich, yuuummmyyy!! :-)
The sun is entering the landscape :-)
The rest of the journey was to walk around parts of the big crater and then slowly go down on the other side of the mountain, seeing a smaller, but more recently active crater and walking to a point were we would be picked up by our car.
Mailiss and especially Iris were finding parts of walking on the (sometimes narrow) crater edge a bit too exciting, but with lots of adrenaline, positivity and sometimes a steady hand from the guide we all had a trip and experience, which we find hard to describe in words. A tear in the corner of an eye and goosebumps are some of the ways to explain the beauty. It is on top of our experiences and places to be on Bali.
After this trip we have decided to also climb the highest volcano in Bali Gunung Agung (3142m) together with Sarah, which we picked up from the airport yesterday. WELCOME SARAH! We want to climb Agung together with Wayan, the guide we also had for Batur. We are excited about how that is going to be, harder for sure but maybe twice as rewarding…you have to wait and see. We will tell all about it when the time comes.
Gunung Agung in the very back, our next goal :-)
Mailiss & Erling have a camera with a good function for panorama pictures, which we miss a lot, with all the nature and beaches we photograph here on Bali. We are so happy to have some panorama pictures now from this paradise island!
 |
| Van week 16 Bali, Mailiss& Erling |
“Our” beach in Seminyak
 |
| Van week 16 Bali, Mailiss& Erling |
Beautiful Geger beach with seaweed farming in the water
Weekend trip
We had booked Nyoman, who was our guide once before, to be our guide together with his driver Komang for 3 days in a row this time. Nyoman is a good guide and good company to travel with and Komang is a humble and good driver that makes us feel safe. We wanted to show Mailiss & Erling a variety of the beauty of Bali, a mix of things we had seen before and things we also still wanted to see or do. One of those things was to climb Gunung (mount) Batur and see the sunrise. Saturday at 8am we were picked up and started our journey. The weather was beautiful, we were excited to show Bali we have learned to love so much and
M&E were excited to see so much of Bali’s other beauty after a week enjoying the beaches.
We headed to the north with a waterfall, rice fields and a couple of temples in mind. We visited the royal temple Taman Ayun in Mengwi. When you think you have seen all kind of temples in Bali, you get to see a new one that looks again different than the ones you saw before. Again a beautiful temple to see and to photograph without it looking just like our other pictures. After this we drove to the UNESCO world heritage nominated rice terraces in Jatiluwih. We had been there before and we really want everybody visiting Bali to see this almost artificial landscape and magnificent rice fields. We would like to see it with newly planted rice once, but just like last time the rice was already high now. Beautiful, but the view is probably totally different with young rice, we hope to maybe see this one time before leaving Bali.
 |
| Van Week 16-17; Bali; the trip |
Panorama view on Jatiluwih
Close to Jatiluwih the public temple Pura Luhur Batukaru is laying on the foot of Gunung Batukaru. Today there was an important ceremony going on in whole Bali, especially for all school kids and students, Hari Raya Saraswati. A ceremony to thank the Goddess of learning, science, and literature through offerings and prayer. In and around the temple we saw around 1000 children and teenagers in Balinese clothing bringing their own small offering to the temple. We had never seen such a massive ceremony with so many people waiting to make their offering. Teenagers were actually standing in line to get in to the praying area. Just like back home we stand in line for a concert or something else, laughing, talking and just being like teenagers are. It looked and sounded so familiar in one way, but then again so different.
We took of over the mountains and towards Singaraja. On the way down we still had daylight and time to see Gitgit waterfall. A nice short walk towards and a beautiful waterfall, but too many souvenir shops along the path and too much “cheap, cheap”, “1dollar, 1dollar”, “yes, please shopping, shopping?” We stopped in Singaraja to eat some food and watch the sunset from the nice warungs on the old harbour front.
It was getting dark and we were tired and full of impressions from the day. Komang drove us safely to Kintamani, the village in front of Gunung Batur, the mountain we were going to climb at 4am next morning….
After the climb on Batur (see further down) it was still morning and we wanted to take it easy the rest of the day, after a volcano climb you are not taking inn so much more that day. Amed on the east coast was the destination and relaxing and snorkelling was the plan. Nyoman and Komang once again drove us safely and were great company. We booked a nice and clean hotel with swimming pool for the night. After some snorkelling, swimming and beers we were more than satisfied of the day went to bed early.
Monday late morning Nyoman and Komang picked us up and we slowly headed to the west and back home with a couple of destinations on the way. Tirta Gangga water palace is one place to be if you are in Bali, it is a peaceful and beautiful Royal palace and temple and most of all a big garden to explore and admire. The restaurant with view over the garden is slightly expensive, but highly worth the money. The food is fantastic, the service is good and the view is rewarding.
 |
| Van Week 16-17; Bali; the trip |
View on Tirta Gangga
Back in the car we made a route through Sidemen road which one of the most beautiful valleys to drive through in Bali. We had a few stops, a small traditional Ikat weaving factory and we also made a visit to the only resort in the area, just to have a look. If you want to experience peace of mind and harmony just by staying at a place, you should stay a night or more at Surya Shanti in Sidemen. We are thinking of it, even though it’s quite above our budget (donations are accepted ;-) ). Combination of the amazing rooms, interior, atmosphere, swimming pool and not to forget the indescribable view, makes it just an oasis in the middle of Bali.
To end our day and long weekend with almost overkill in input we visited Gyanyar evening marked, which is supposed to be very nice and cosy. Erling and Rino tried to eat Babi Guling (suckling pig) and burned their mouth out of the spicy local food and we walked through the marked and just experienced the Balinese roaring marked life. We went home and let the weekend and all the experiences sink in on us.
Gunung Batur
We have been looking forward to climb a volcano already since we came here. But in the rain season its not really recommended and often the passes are even closed. Now the wet season is slowly ending and with all the visits coming up we wanted to finally go for it. Gunung Batur is a 2-hour hike up the 1717m high mountain and you see sunrise from the top. M&E were also excited, none of us had ever seen or climbed a volcano.
After a banana pancake and coffee at 3.30 in the morning, Wayan, the guide picked us up and we started the hike in the dark with flashlights and enthusiasm. Through forests in the beginning, followed by steep and curvy paths up the side of the mountain. We took a few small drinking stops and admired the dark valley of Kintamani and lake Batur beneath us under the stars. Slowly a tiny hint of purple light was coming up on the east horizon and we continued our climb up to the top. Wayan, our guide is a highly experienced senior guide, born and raised in the area. He made us feel safe and always on ease and had a perfect tempo for the 4 of us. Sweaty but not too exhausted we arrived on the top op Gunung Batur and together with a few other groups and guides we could take in the stunning view, while the sun minute by minute made its entrance on the landscape around us. The big crater and all the details of the volcano slowly became visible for us. It was such a rewarding feeling to stand there together the 4 of us at 6.30 and look at the beauty around us and smell, see and feel the volcano we stood on. The steam poring out everywhere, the hot stones we could touch and the fact that we could boil eggs in the steam in the mountainside was so fascinating! Breakfast on a volcano: Mountain steam boiled eggs and mountain steam cooked banana sandwich, yuuummmyyy!! :-)
 |
| Van Week 16-17; Bali; the trip |
 |
| Van Week 16-17; Bali; the trip |
The sun is entering the landscape :-)
The rest of the journey was to walk around parts of the big crater and then slowly go down on the other side of the mountain, seeing a smaller, but more recently active crater and walking to a point were we would be picked up by our car.
Mailiss and especially Iris were finding parts of walking on the (sometimes narrow) crater edge a bit too exciting, but with lots of adrenaline, positivity and sometimes a steady hand from the guide we all had a trip and experience, which we find hard to describe in words. A tear in the corner of an eye and goosebumps are some of the ways to explain the beauty. It is on top of our experiences and places to be on Bali.
After this trip we have decided to also climb the highest volcano in Bali Gunung Agung (3142m) together with Sarah, which we picked up from the airport yesterday. WELCOME SARAH! We want to climb Agung together with Wayan, the guide we also had for Batur. We are excited about how that is going to be, harder for sure but maybe twice as rewarding…you have to wait and see. We will tell all about it when the time comes.
 |
| Van Week 16-17; Bali; the trip |
Gunung Agung in the very back, our next goal :-)
Monday, January 24, 2011
Ujung & Amed
After buying an underwater case for our camera we hade to take it a bit slow for a couple of weeks. Eating at the cheapest warungs and no beers it is easy to save money around here. We also didn’t do anything special last weekend. But this weekend we had planned a weekend in Amed on the east coast to test our underwater case. In Amed the underwater life is right of shore and supposed to be one of the most beautiful snorkelling spots of Bali. We didn’t explore anything yet of the east of Bali, so from now on we will spend some weekends on traveling the east and east coast of Bali :-)
We knew the drive to Amed was going to be around 3 hours, so on Saturday morning we left early. After one and half hour we had a stop at Goa Lawah, one of the nine directional and important temples of Bali. The temple is at a cave which is supposed to lead all the way to the mother temple of Bali, Pura Besakih 25 km away, but of course you’re not allowed to try that trip. It’s not something we would have wanted either because the cave is full of bats (see pictures in the slide show beneath).
The weather was perfect until now. But after Candidasa we had to drive through some mountain area and it was getting darker and darker. When it started raining we hoped it would stay in the mountains and still decided to take the long road to Amed, which is supposed to be especially beautiful according to our bible ‘The Lonely Planet’. Unfortunately the rain became worse and we found the very last ‘Homestay’, restaurant on this route before the long drive to Amed actually started witch is not touristic at all. We decided to take a break and lunch at this place before continuing to Amed. A lucky and really nice coincidence was that this homestay & restaurant was a very beautiful and idyllic place with friendly staff. It had a beautiful swimming pool overlooking the ocean and an almost private black sand beach.
After lunch we played cards, read and waited for the rain to stop, witch it didn’t do. We decided maybe it was smart to stay the night and we had fallen for this idyllic place. The owner explained to us that the route we wanted to take would be floating anyway because of all the rain and at some points be dangerous and the view of the underwater life in Amed would be bad as well due to all the dirt in the water coming from the mountains. We knocked down the price to Rp 250.000 (± €21 or Kr 175) a bit above our budget but what the heck. It was by far the most beautiful room we had until now and during the day we had some nice and interesting conversations with a Dutch couple travelling through Indonesia with their 10-months old baby. Due to the long rain on that day it was not that warm and after Munduk we finally slept underneath a ‘real’ blanked again, which maybe is the number 1 thing we miss the most here on Bali, having a blanket with some weight on you when you go to bed. ;-)
(see here our review on TripAdvisor)
In the morning it was al dried up and the sun was shining. We had a morning swim in the beautiful swimming pool and dive in the ocean. Our breakfast we enjoyed overlooking the ocean, a place to recommend for sure.
Around 10am we continued our journey around the east coast of Bali and followed the beautiful track from the Lonely Planet towards Amed. Well, what an experience! Not only is the road taking you through one of Bali’s most beautiful areas, we as white people were greeted like we were famous pop stars by all the children and sometimes even by the adults, or maybe like we were aliens from another planet…very funny anyway. When we arrived in Amed we went to a bar rented snorkelling gear and installed our camera in our underwater casing. The underwater life was indeed beautiful and our camera worked perfectly. The second slide show beneath shows some evidence.
When coming out of the water is started raining again and we hoped that it would stop after we had taken lunch. Unfortunately this was not the case and we had to drive through the rain again. Now we took the normal route, which also brought us through beautiful rice fields and nature, but this we will explore more during another weekend :-)
Back home after a tiring 3 hour drive we ended the weekend relaxing with a half an hour shoulder, neck and head massages, just perfect.
Even though we had a lot of rain, the weekend was a success and we saw the beauty of east Bali and we will plan some more trips to this area as there is a lot more to explore.
We knew the drive to Amed was going to be around 3 hours, so on Saturday morning we left early. After one and half hour we had a stop at Goa Lawah, one of the nine directional and important temples of Bali. The temple is at a cave which is supposed to lead all the way to the mother temple of Bali, Pura Besakih 25 km away, but of course you’re not allowed to try that trip. It’s not something we would have wanted either because the cave is full of bats (see pictures in the slide show beneath).
The weather was perfect until now. But after Candidasa we had to drive through some mountain area and it was getting darker and darker. When it started raining we hoped it would stay in the mountains and still decided to take the long road to Amed, which is supposed to be especially beautiful according to our bible ‘The Lonely Planet’. Unfortunately the rain became worse and we found the very last ‘Homestay’, restaurant on this route before the long drive to Amed actually started witch is not touristic at all. We decided to take a break and lunch at this place before continuing to Amed. A lucky and really nice coincidence was that this homestay & restaurant was a very beautiful and idyllic place with friendly staff. It had a beautiful swimming pool overlooking the ocean and an almost private black sand beach.
After lunch we played cards, read and waited for the rain to stop, witch it didn’t do. We decided maybe it was smart to stay the night and we had fallen for this idyllic place. The owner explained to us that the route we wanted to take would be floating anyway because of all the rain and at some points be dangerous and the view of the underwater life in Amed would be bad as well due to all the dirt in the water coming from the mountains. We knocked down the price to Rp 250.000 (± €21 or Kr 175) a bit above our budget but what the heck. It was by far the most beautiful room we had until now and during the day we had some nice and interesting conversations with a Dutch couple travelling through Indonesia with their 10-months old baby. Due to the long rain on that day it was not that warm and after Munduk we finally slept underneath a ‘real’ blanked again, which maybe is the number 1 thing we miss the most here on Bali, having a blanket with some weight on you when you go to bed. ;-)
(see here our review on TripAdvisor)
In the morning it was al dried up and the sun was shining. We had a morning swim in the beautiful swimming pool and dive in the ocean. Our breakfast we enjoyed overlooking the ocean, a place to recommend for sure.
Around 10am we continued our journey around the east coast of Bali and followed the beautiful track from the Lonely Planet towards Amed. Well, what an experience! Not only is the road taking you through one of Bali’s most beautiful areas, we as white people were greeted like we were famous pop stars by all the children and sometimes even by the adults, or maybe like we were aliens from another planet…very funny anyway. When we arrived in Amed we went to a bar rented snorkelling gear and installed our camera in our underwater casing. The underwater life was indeed beautiful and our camera worked perfectly. The second slide show beneath shows some evidence.
When coming out of the water is started raining again and we hoped that it would stop after we had taken lunch. Unfortunately this was not the case and we had to drive through the rain again. Now we took the normal route, which also brought us through beautiful rice fields and nature, but this we will explore more during another weekend :-)
Back home after a tiring 3 hour drive we ended the weekend relaxing with a half an hour shoulder, neck and head massages, just perfect.
Even though we had a lot of rain, the weekend was a success and we saw the beauty of east Bali and we will plan some more trips to this area as there is a lot more to explore.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)