Blogs from Nusa Lembongan, Bali, Indonesia, Asia - page 4

Current Mood: Overwhelmed Well where did i leave off? Ahh yes sipping Bintang and eating some sort of Goerang. It was tasty but i had to move on. Last Wednesday which would have been the 10th or so we left Kuta in search of tranquility and oh my Buddha did we find it. Jumping on your typical hot, Asian, sweat fest Bus we made for Sanur where we were to catch our Ferry to my newest destination, Nusa Lembongan. Nusa Lembongan is set just to the south west of Bali and is a lovely 1 hour boat ride across. the boat was a type of Catamaran but no Lumpraya that many of my friends know well. This is a wooden version with all of the features you expect in South Eastern Asian Travel (pigs, Chickens and ... read more

Hello, So, after leaving Singapore, and upon the recommendation of numerous Aussies, I headed down to Bali. Due to delays, I ended up arriving at about 1 in the morning, which is obviously not ideal. I ended up getting a taxi into Kuta for the night with another couple off the plane. Once there, we spent ages looking for a cheap, available hotel, as it was late, so everyone was either just saying "full" and going back to sleep, or trying to charge us around 200,000 Rupiah. Eventually we found one for 150,000 which was still a lot, but by that time we didn't care so much. After chucking down our bags, we did what was expected of us (being in Kuta) and went out to buy some beers before hitting the beach. This turned out ... read more

(Wouldn’t it be nice to think that I was still in Indonesia? Instead, thanks to a combined lack of motivation and rupiah, this entry is coming to you post-jetlag, from a public library in Salamanca. But for the sake of this final post, I invite you to imagine I’m still in dreamy, honey-scented, dripping-in-green Bali - god knows I am.) Early one drizzly morning, I packed up my things and bid Ubud an affectionate farewell, promising to return sooner rather than later, especially since according to some of the locals, I missed visiting the finer sights in the city - “Forget the centuries-old temples, I want to see the café where Julia Roberts took her banana smoothies!” After a short ride to Sanur and a hop, skip and a wave across the Badung straight, I arrived ... read more

After all of the diving that Scott had been doing in the Philippines, we decided that I had to get some dives under my belt before attempting the famously current-filled diving at Komodo. After a day of running errands in Kuta and catching up with friends from a prior trip over a cool sunset Bintang, we headed north on Bali to Lovina. Our Perama bus climbed over the beautiful green mountain scenery and stopped for a short break in a mountain village which was a lovely 10 degrees cooler than the coast. I even had to put a sweatshirt on for a few minutes! On the way back down the mountains, our bus suddenly stopped unexpectedly. The driver pulled out and inspected all of the fuses and then opened the engine and hammered around a bit. ... read more

Nos cogimos un barco hasta la isla de Lembongan a pasar el día. Al llegar al puerto contratamos 2 motoristas que nos llevaran a la isla mas bonita que conocieran y así hicieron, pasamos el día entero en “the Dream Beach” y si que era una playa de ensueño. Cuando llegamos por la mañana había aun neblina de las hola que explotaban a los lados. Arena blanca , agua transparente y plantas tropicales, no se nos ocurría mejor manera de pasar un día perdidos en una isla de Indonesia. Y ya disfrutamos al día siguiente de nuestro ultimo día en la playa de Kuta y de nuestro bungalow que le cogimos mucho cariño (al igual que al restaurante), debieron terminar de nosotros hasta los... porque íbamos siempre a horas super raras, a las 5 de la ... read more