Blogs from Bali, Indonesia, Asia - page 231

Our time in Bali will soon be over. Tomorrow we're leaving for Sydney. The past few days have been very relaxing. We spent most time reading by the pool. Today we went to exchange seven books, that we'd read during the last couple of days. We did some walking along the beach and we did quite a lot of shopping these days. Especially Philipp found some decent cloth in a huge store called Matahari. Things here are just so incredibly cheap. He bought 3 shirts, matching pants and ties. When he paid by credit card, the shop assistant would look at the credit card and go "thank you, Mr. Philipp, please come again". It was so funny to see. Every time the same show: "Thank you, Mr. Philipp." What other things are worth mentioning? A ... read more

Hi, it's Jamil. My birthday is coming up and I get to pick the hotel, the thing to do and mom will buy me one thing and will give me 20 dollars. What I want to do on my birthday is to take a glass bottom boat through the ocean to see all the fish. We have been in Ubud for eight days. One day in Ubud we rented a car and drove up to a volcano. It is an active one and the second we got to the top it started to pour, so we plopped ourselves inside a restaurant that I think would've had nice view if it was a nice day! When we left the place, there was a group of people outside trying to sell stuff in the pouring rain. I ... read more

We've now spent 8 days in Bali, as we arrived here on the 10th of April. We were picked up by an old friend of ours, who used to be married to someone in Canada and moved back to Indonesia about five years ago, Tata. He greatfully showed us a few hotels around Ubud untill we picked a nice one (well Jamil, Samir and I think it's good because it has a swimming pool, that's about all we look for). Our first full day in Indonesia was a great one, we went to a monkey forest, you wouldn't believe how many monkeys we saw! Another day, we went on this long, long walk with a view of Ubud and lots of rice fields. Thursday we rented a car and drove to a volcano which apparently ... read more

We've in Bali for a week now. It's been a rather lazy week. We went on a single excursion to see some sights of the island. We saw several temples, a waterfall, black beaches, lakes and beautiful rice terraces. Most of the other days we were reading at the pool, sleeping and watching DVDs. After the first week we got kinda bored in our hotel. Even though their slogan was "there's always something new at Garden View" (the name of the hotel) things didn't really change. So we moved just 200m up the street. The new place is called Legian Village Hotel. The pool is not as nice, but it's closer to the important things such as supermarket and Internet cafe. This week hasn't really happened that much. Yesterday we went shopping. All we came home ... read more

Nach dem wir das Hotel Ibis verlassen haben, fanden wir sogleich eine angenehme und saubere Unterkunft, welche sich ebenfalls im Zentrum von Jogyakarta. Von dort aus haben wir verschiedene Ausfluege unternommen (Borobudur und andere Sehenswuerdigkeiten). Wir haben uns dann entschlossen nicht per Flugzeug nach Bali zu reisen, sondern mit Minibusen ueber den Mont Bromo (Vulkangebiet). Was sich spaeter als Fehler herausstellte. Am ersten Tag waren wir mit dem Minibus 12 Stunden unterwegs. Es reisten noch ein Deutscher, ein Belgier und drei Franzosen mit uns. D.h. der Bus war ziehmlich voll (Reisedauer 12 Stunden !!!) So nach ca. 10 Stunden Fahrt war unser Fahrer auch nicht mehr so fit und er hat dummerweise ein Motorrad, auf welchem zwei Frauen fuhren, gerammt. Anstatt anzuhalten und nach den Frauen zu schauen, fuhr er seelenruhig weiter, als waehre nichts ... read more