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    • Elizabeth WardReizigerIndonesia

      Gili T day 1

      30 juli 2024, Indonesië ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

      We woke up at 3am when the call go prayer was played across the island and tried to get a few more hours of sleep. We had some breakfast in our hostel- undercooked pancakes and garlic egg fried rice- not what we wanted at all!
      We rented two of the most battered bikes we’ve ever seen from the hostel. Both of them had flat tyres and Sam’s handles totally spun as he was riding. We still rode down to the beach on them anyway.
      We headed down to the beach to do some paddle boarding. Despite the water looking very flat it was actually really difficult. There was a really strong current and every time a boat went past we were hit with huge waves. Sam fell off quite a few times and lost his sunglasses in the sea.
      We then cycled further round the island to Turtle point. We hired snorkels and flippers and went turtle spotting. As we were getting into the sea the heavens opened! We were hit with monsoon level rain and by the time we got to the reef couldn’t see the beach. We carried on, besides we were already in the water so what did it matter. We saw 4 turtles, some cool fish and a shear drop off the edge of the reef into the deep sea. After struggling against the current we decided to return to the beach. We totally misjudged our landing spot and the waves dumped us on some seriously sharp rocks. After cutting the bottom of our feet and our bums we made it out only to realised that the guys that hired us the snorkels had really enjoyed the show.
      At this point it was still raining and the road our bikes were on had flooded. We shoved all our stuff in the dry bag and tried to cycle in the brown water to somewhere for lunch.
      We sat on at a table on the beach while it rained! A Sun umbrella trying to keep us dry. Had chicken sandwiches and waited until the rain stopped.
      We then cycled round to the top of the island to investigate more snorkelling spots for tomorrow.
      We decided to go play mini golf, Sam won by 2 shots and the worst part was the water hadn’t drained from the holes! We then played some pool before heading back to the hostel to shower and change for dinner!
      We cycled to dinner, Sam had butter chicken and I had Thai peanut curry! Both very very nice. We then headed to the beach front cinema and watched challenges with some cocktails before heading for some ice cream and looking at the stars.      Meer informatie

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    • Elizabeth WardReizigerIndonesia

      Travel ftom uluwatu to Gili

      29 juli 2024, Indonesië ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

      A 6 am wake up and our taxi man picked us up at 6:30 and we drove 2 hours to the ferry port. We grabbed some toast and coffee before boarding our fast boat to Gili and had all our bags carried for us.
      We travelled 2 hours on what was actually an okay journey across the Bali sea, I slept the whole car journey and the whole ferry journey. Sam didn’t, I think it’s starting to annoy him. We got to Gili and headed straight to our hostel - our most expensive accommodation yet! We arrived and were shown out under ground hole of a room which smells like damp rotting wood and has the hardest mattress in the world.
      We headed to find some lunch on the front, ate terrible nasi goreng and Mie goreng and then got charged twice for it. We had another mulch in the surf shops and then tried to find a spot to go in the sea.
      We ended up on the windiest stretch of beach which also had a the sharpest coral sand ever! Do we gave up on our sea swim even tho the water was the warmest we have ever experienced and headed back to the hostel for a swim in the pool.
      We got then got ready for tea and headed out for some dinner, Sam had pizza and I had spaghetti bolonaise.
      We then went to beach bar that was showing some of the olympics and watched the mountain bike race. Then we headed to a reggae bar to listen to some reggae before heading back to get some sleep.      Meer informatie

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    • Elizabeth WardReizigerIndonesia

      Day 2 uluwatu

      28 juli 2024, Indonesië ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

      Sam picked breakfast this morning seeing as I did a terrible job. I had scrambled eggs on toast and Sam had pancakes. We then headed to the Sunday markets. Filled with lots of tiny stalls selling handmade items, we stopped by in loads of the surf shops too. I got a hat and a t shirt where they printed the design in front of us and Sam got a T-shirt and a handmade shirt.
      We continued mulching around the shops and the market stalls before heading for a quick beer and then headed home to get ready for the evening.
      We had a quick dip in the pool and then headed to the temple fire dance. We watched the sunset over the sea and then queued for 2 hours for the fire dance. We watched the fire dance made up of 50 men and 4 women tell an ancient story about a prince and princess. All the sound was from the men themselves and it was quite similar to a panto.
      We then headed for dinner at a burger bar before heading home and getting an early night in bed before our 6 am wake up!      Meer informatie

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    • Elizabeth WardReizigerIndonesia

      Day 1 Uluwatu

      27 juli 2024, Indonesië ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

      We headed out of our horrible room to find some breakfast. We arrived at what we thought was a nice little breakfast place ordered 2 coffees some avocado on toast and banana pancakes. We waited over an hour for the food to arrive and had finished the coffees by the time the food arrived. It arrived in a horrific form eggs undercooked, wet avocado and stone cold pancakes.
      We then headed to the beach which was being used as Indonesia’s surf competition location. We decided that surfing probably wasn’t the best idea so just did some swimming in front of the waves while trying to avoid being flooded by the incoming tide. Sam got incredibly sunburnt and I got a slight line of burn on my chest but that was it. We had some nasi goreng and mie goreng on the beach while watching the surfers, then headed up to have a mulch round some shops.
      Looked in one shop before Bali belly took hold and we had to very quickly zoom home on the scooters.
      After dealing with the issue we went for a quick dip in the pool.
      We then began to get ready to go out, I dosed up on imodiums and we headed out for pizza. We then went to the bar round the corner played a game of pool and some cards before heading home.      Meer informatie

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    • Elizabeth WardReizigerIndonesia

      Travel from Ubud to Uluwatu

      26 juli 2024, Indonesië ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

      A long and boring day.
      We got up had green pancakes for breakfast and then went for a quick swim. We got packed up and ready for our taxi to uluwatu.
      The taxi should have taken 2 hours.
      An hour after getting into the taxi we were still a 20 minute walk from the villa!
      4 hours later we arrived in Uluwatu! An alright journey that I just slept through and Sam watched a million episodes of the office.
      We arrived at our home stay which is under construction and the photos make it look a lot better than it is.
      We decided to go find some lunch at 4pm and got attacked by fly’s in a cafe down the road.
      We then headed on the really steep walk down to the beach. Did some rock pooling, found crabs, starfish and centipedes. Sam did not like the sand crabs.
      We watched the sunset and then embarked on the steep hike back up the hill. We had a quick dip in the pool and then got ready to go find some dinner.
      We decided on mexican, i had fish tacos and sam had a wet burrito.
      We then stopped off at the pharmacy to get more insect repellent. Took some money out and remembered to pick up the card this time. Then headed home for an early night.      Meer informatie

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    • Elizabeth WardReizigerIndonesia

      Ubud day 3

      25 juli 2024, Indonesië ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C

      An early start after we got too scared to rent a scooter so had to book an organised tour to see some waterfalls. Turns out this tour though was a private tour!
      We were picked up by our driver and set off to our first waterfall. We arrived at what was obviously just an Instagram spot, our driver was very keen on taking the best Instagram photos of us but quickly realised the subjects of the photos were useless at posing. So instead we stood on some rocks and watched everyone else have their Instagram worthy photos.
      We then headed to the next waterfall which was definitely the coolest. A huge tower of water that plummeted into a large pool at the bottom. We swam around but made sure not to swim under the water incase we got hit by falling coconuts. We were the only ones bothered about swimming and everyone else just wanted to take insta pics.
      We then headed to the water temple. The temple is where local Hindus complete a purification ritual, they wash themselves in the water with each fountain washing away specific sins.
      We then headed to the coffee plantation, we saw a Luwak (looks like a mongoose) which eats the coffee beans and then poos them out and then the coffee is used for roasting. We tried 17 different types of tea and coffee and tried the male luwak poo coffee - the most expensive coffee in the world.
      We then headed for a lovely lunch with a great view and we had a club sandwich and Gado Gado.
      Our guide decide we had a enough time for another waterfall and made sure to take us to one we could swim at. We walked down 90 steps to get to the waterfall, posed on a rock for some photos and then swam for a bit until Sam was too cold. We then walked through the jungle to find another waterfall, then waded across the river to get to a cave and a sacred rock.
      Then we headed to the rice terraces where the best thing was the ice cream we got at the shop. It was filled with people wanting to do the classic Bali swing pictures and there wasn’t even any rice because they had just harvested it.
      We then headed back, went for a swim in the pool and then headed out for dinner.
      We decided that this was the perfect opportunity for Sam to try sushi because everything is so cheap. Terrible idea- some of the worst sushi ever eaten, a tuna roll made with tinned tuna not good. We then headed to a bar for drinks with Zoe and her friend where there was a live reggae band on. Super fun and was given shots of margarita from the table next to us. Said our final goodbyes to Zoe and then headed to bed for our final sleep in Ubud!      Meer informatie

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    • Elizabeth WardReizigerIndonesia

      Ubud day 2

      25 juli 2024, Indonesië ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

      A bright and early start watching the Sun appear over the trees while we ate green pancakes and a jaffle for breakfast. We then jumped in our transport and headed to an Indonesian food market. We were shown all the fresh meat, vegetables and spices that we were going to use in our cooking later.
      We then headed to the cooking class, we were given ice tea and shown round the family temple before being shown all the ingredients laid out for us.
      We began by preparing all the ingredients, we used a massive passel and mortar (might be spelt wrong) and mashed up fresh peanuts to make peanut sauce. Sam got to use a huge knife to chop all the ingredients for Bali yellow sauce.
      We made Kare Aram (Yellow Coconut Cream Chicken Curry), Sate Lilit (Chicken Sate), Gado- Gado (Peanut tofu salad), Jukut urab ( Bali Salad), Tempe Manis ( Deep fried tempe in soy sauce), pépés ikan (steamed tuna in banana leaves) and boiled bananas with palm sugar and coconut cream.
      We then had a huge feast on the gorgeous food and headed back to the villa.
      We decided we needed a break after all the cooking and spent the afternoon chilling by the pool before heading on a sunset walk through the rice fields. We grabbed and ice cream and tried to decide what to have for dinner.
      We ordered some pizza to our villa and sat on the terrace playing cards. We then headed for an early night and we’re both asleep for 10 pm.      Meer informatie

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