Blogs from Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, Asia - page 3

Hello to everyone I said I wouldn't write on here but y ried to compose a message on fb and it was taking ages to add everone. Time is money people :-) But Iwill make this quick because it's bopring for everyone else to read. So, I'm in Kuta 'part capital they tell me'. Everyone here is a surfer from Oz. I'm doing a surfing course. Very fun. I'm learning all the surfing lingo. Going to do canyoning and white water rafting this week hopefully. Then going to ubud. Otherwise I'm exploring, eating and relaxing. It's sooo HOT. p.s. I'm not nearly going to be on this thing as often as everyone else but will try when I can. p.p.s I don't have time to upload photos. Will try next time. sorry :-( muchos love xxxxxxxxxxx ... read more

First post...here I go! :) My plane landed in Denpasar, Bali. It literally flew over the blue (yes, BLUE...not blue-black or polluted blue), sandy beach. I found that surprising since I never flew over a beach. The airport was quite modern. The people were helpful and there were plenty of tour guides all over the place. One thing that bothered me was the visa queue. It was long. LOOOOONG. And time-consuming. So once you get there..be prepared for the wait. Especially if you're arriving in the daytime. Hotels are available, plentifully. Rooms, not really. I saw so many backpackers walking around cluelessly asking for a room. There are other facilities such as laundromats. They're cheaper than the hotel laundry service...but Lord knows what they use for detergent. The beach was SO CLOSE BY. And the weather ... read more

After a couple of days being good and playing guitar on the beach, i met a couple of dredlocked Balenese guys who invited me over for a jam. We played Bob marley songs ( i had to lean these rather quickly) and any other happy songs they knew for hours. Soon we werejoined by a large group of locals all singing along to anything we played. Turns out the best place to start out a night is on a local beach bar. the tourests dont really use them and as a result the beer is half price about 20,000 (about 40 pence). At about midnight the bar owner anounst the we were going out to a Reggae bar in Kuta....... i was ready for bed already and this came as quite a shock to me. David ... read more

Bali It was only a couple of hours from Singapore to fly to Kuta, Bali. We were couchsurfing once again with an American guy called Tai who was living and working in Bali. He advised us to get a taxi to his place from the taxi counter prepay as we would be less likely to be ripped off by the taxi touts – ah here we go again... So he was correct of course as soon as we paid our $25 visa fee and proceeded out of the airport we were accosted by lots of Bali men asking us if we needed transport, “Very cheap mate, very cheap..” So having pre paid for our taxi (80,000Rp - £5.70) we were dropped off outside Tai’s place. There are hardly any road signs or numbers on houses so ... read more

2.3.2012 Bali – Indonesia Airport transfer to Cairns airport, got the flight to Darwin where we had a 5 hour wait before our flight to Bali. So we decided to go to the nearest hotel and have a dip in the pool and relax there until we had to check into our flight. Arrived in Bali and it was Chaos! There was hundreds of people surrounding the airport, trying to take people to their hotels. We got in an airport taxi and we think we were ripped off a little bit. Only by a few pounds. He kept going down narrow streets and felt like we were going round in circles. There doesn’t seem to be any driving standards and if there is no one takes any notice. Hundreds of scooters everywhere pulling out in front ... read more

Monday was my first full day in Bali. Man its hot. I felt really intimidated when I arrived here, the place was not as welcoming as other countries I've been to. Then again where is there an airport where you land and you do feel welcome? It certainly isn't London thats for sure. I was pretty tired when I arrived as I'd been travelling the full day but the next day I went out to have a look around. Kuta is essentially a resort town, big nightlife, shops full of tat all selling the same thing but get away from that and head to the beach and you'll soon know its well worth the trip. In the 2 hours I was walking around (getting lost mainly, looking for the beach) I had hard drugs stuffed into ... read more

The flight into Bali was short and sweet as we arrived on a new continent. We paid for our visas, had our passports checked and then who knows what happened for the next 15 minutes after that....... We were asked so many times, can I carry your bag, where you going, you need a taxi, that the 15 minutes from leaving passport control now seems like a blur of fast moving objects around us. We decided that we were just going to 'wing it' when we arrived and didn't have any where booked to stay, we didn't even have a map or a guide book for help. So Matt haggled with one of the million taxi drivers to take us into Kuta, 50,000 Rupiah (Rp), £1 = 14,000Rp so around £3.50 and so off we went. ... read more