Blogs from Bali, Indonesia, Asia - page 258

HI, We have been having an awsome time with our friends Lisa Ben and their children Olivia and Daniel. The place we are staying in is a beautiful house with staff to cook and help look after the children, and a pool. We are swimming everyday, eating well and having massages ! The weather is hot, so the water is lovely. Have had a few rides on the back of the moterbikes that ben and John have hired, but I am not letting Jetson on then as the drivers are crazy. We are about 15 minutes crazy bike ride from Kuta, in amongst the rice fields with the cows and chickens. Will send more news in a couple of days. xx Hope everyone is well. Lou P.s. The photo attached to this is huge. If it ... read more

Happy New Year everyone! Christmas this year was spent on the idyllic island of Bali this year. We left Bangkok 23Dec and returned 30Dec. Travel was via Singapore on Singapore Airlines. They have me completely spoiled now. The boys were in heaven with nintendo games and kids movies on their own personal entertainment device in their seats. I was quite content and got to watch "The 40 Year Old Virgin" which was one of the funniest movies I have ever, ever seen. The food was okay, C. was pretty tickled with his child's meals which consisted of hot dogs on one flight and spaghett and meatballs on the second. The main objective of the trip was for Jim and I to complete our Christmas present to each other......scuba certification!!!! We have both been wanting to get ... read more

Bali is one of beautiful islands in Indonesia. One of my sisters lives in Bali and I have many times went to there. ... read more

After a very long bus ride right into Jarkarta I found myself with little motivation of exploring this big city. So I took another very long bus ride right across all of Java and with the ferry to Bali. The touristic centre of Bali is Kuta, a beach town on a peninsular south of the capital Denpasar. Between the main street and the beach a maze of alleys offers every kind of accomodation, food, and souveniers a backpacker might think of, a bit like Bangkoks Khao Sarn Road relocated at a beach. But most of the places were pretty deserted. A local shop owner told me that several bombings, the last one in October 2005, scared away the masses of beach bums and surfers that are generally heading for the place. On the last incident two ... read more

Hi all, I know, I know. I wasn't supposed to go traveling again for a good long while. But after no minutes of convincing by my dear friend, Michelle, we planned a trip to Bali around my 30th birthday. We spent about 10 days there and it was, by far, the most luxurious vacation ever! What do you expect when one hour long massages only cost $10!?! Anyway, here some pictures. I apologize if you have dial-up access cause there are a lot and it will probably take a few years to load this page. And not that it was really a site seeing tour since we spent most of our non-napping daylight hours in the ocean or shopping. So the pictures aren't that great but thought I'd share nonetheless. I also have some short little ... read more