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Début du voyage
22 novembre 2024
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Pre-travel planning
14 novembre 2024, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 5 °C
While we wish we could travel light, it's not happening. We sorted and weighed our dive bags and gear and our necessities are 20kg each. I suspect we will end up traveling with a total of 60 kg, accounting for clothes, camera gear, carryons, etc.En savoir plus
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VoyageurIm begining to think ill have the same issue with my patagonia backpacking trip
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VoyageurWe are having to pay for extra weight but no other choice. It's a trade off since we want to dive with our own gear. I brought hardly much besides dive gear, swimsuits, a few pair shorts and tank tops.
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Packing dive gear
17 novembre 2024, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Somehow it all fits, with room left for clothing!
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VoyageurFully packed, extra regulator (Sage's) weighs 24kg 😱
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Voyageur So organized!
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Out Of Office!
22 novembre 2024, États Unis ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
I guess my OOO message makes it official!
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DIA overnight
22 novembre 2024, États Unis ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Pikes Peak and Denver sunset
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Headed to Bali
25 novembre 2024, Hong Kong ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Checked out of the hotel at 5 am and navigated check-in and a shuttle bus to our flight to Bali. Starbucks was the only place open at 6 am. No plastic cups, lids, or straws🌎
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Voyageur Let the adventure begin!
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Driving from Denpasar to Pemuteran
25 novembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
We got to see the busy scooter traffic of Denpasar and then up through the mountains. We drove from the south to the north across the island of Bali
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Voyageur Yum
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Voyageur Beautiful people!
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Voyageur Time for a nap?
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LAX to HKG, 14 hr 51 min
24 novembre 2024, États Unis ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
We made it to Hong Kong!
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Bali
25 novembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
The hardest thing about traveling has been the lack of caffeine to try and counteract jetlag. I've had only 2 coffees since Friday morning.
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Day 1-3
25 novembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Finally made it to the hotel! Only 30+ hours of travel later. My highlights of the first few days were the privilege of getting to fly Polaris and the brief stop at a coffee plantation. The plantation even had a irl lowak which made me jump.En savoir plus
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VoyageurHow was the coffee??
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VoyageurHad a smoky flavor. It was kind of underwhelming but still yummy
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Voyageur Pure joy!
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First day of diving
27 novembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
We did our first three dives of the trip out of Pemuteran. They were three dives and the water is 30c/86f. Really too warm for diving when the air temp is 32/90. They served us a typical Indonesian lunch on the beach between our second and third dive, and it was nasi goreng and mei goreng, and they always offer hot tea and hot Balinese coffee. It rained at the end of the third dive, and the temp is a bit more comfortable than yesterday.En savoir plus
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Sri Ganeshan Menjangan Temple
28 novembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Checking out the temple from our boat during our dive surface interval
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Bali Hinduism
29 novembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
The island of Bali is majority Hindu, and we have seen a lot of Bali Hindu religious expressions. Most homes and businesses have their own temples and light incense in palm baskets filled with flowers and sometimes candy. The statues are wrapped in cloth to keep the spirit within. The umbrella symbolizes protectionEn savoir plus
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Muck diving
30 novembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
The dive company drove us to a muck site, Puri Jati, about 45 minutes East of Pemuteran. We did two really long dives, 110 min and 80 minutes. We saw all kinds of macro critters and will try and post some video..we saw mimic octopus, cuttlefish, nudibranch, eel, flounder, shrimp (several kind), teddy bear crab....
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Last day of diving
1 décembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Heavy rain delayed our dives but we managed to get our last two dives.
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Last morning in Pemuteran
2 décembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Checking out of our lodging and headed to Ubud, Bali
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Voyageur Repacking is going to take some work!
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Drive to Ubud from Permuteran
2 décembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
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Welcome to Ubud
2 décembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
We took a ride over the mountains and thru the middle of Bali, with a stop for coffee and a view of some twin lakes. We are now in Ubud, which is a tourist destination and very different from Pemuteran in terms of business and western influence. The best news is our hotel has the perfect drying space for all our wet dive gear. Plus a trundle bed!En savoir plus
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Ubud Monkey Forest
2 décembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ 🌩️ 30 °C
We have arrived in Ubud! We are letting our gear dry in the hotel (it’s a little musty). We then grabbed lunch before we headed to the monkey forest. There, we saw a temple, a few monkeys, and I faced my fear of caves (it was actually a tunnel so doesn’t really count). Peep the baby monkey too!En savoir plus
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Monkey Park
2 décembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ 🌩️ 29 °C
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A Day of Sightseeing in Ubud
3 décembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
HOT TO GO! Sun is out.and it is warm 🥵.

We visited the Royal Palace, walked through the side streets, stopped for cold drinks and air con when we could find it, and then wandered up to some farmland just on the edge of town. One of the most interesting things we did was purchase a fresh coconut from a farmer, Nyoman, "the coconut man". He told us how he prepares his fielda by composting the older rice stalks, and uses burnt coconut husk ash as fertilizer. He uses the coconut shells as fuel instead of wood.He grows rice, and also has coconuts, vanilla beans, pineapple, lemongrass, and citronella. I stole a photo of him off Instagram and you can see a video here https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6SZCeopHC9/?igs…En savoir plus
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Bali to Jakarta
3 décembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ 🌧 27 °C
The hardest part of today was saying goodbye to Sage. She is staying on in Ubud for a few more days before flying home to go back to work 🥺. We are so lucky to be able to travel and dive as a family ❤️❤️❤️❤️.

We had a short flight from Denpasar DPS to Jakarta CGK on Garuda Air. Spacious Airbus 330-900.En savoir plus
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Voyageur Hope your Garuda experience was better this time!
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VoyageurYes it was actually really good!
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Layover in Jakarta
3 décembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
2 hrs in the CGK Jakarta airport and then we board our flight to Sorong SOQ. They have these amazing loungers in the "rest area". My new favorite airport.
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Flying into Sorong, West Papua, Indonesi
4 décembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Slept most of the 4 hour flight. Window seat was a good choice for this flight with the sunrise and descent into Sorong We flew right over many dive boats that can be seen in the video
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Arrival in Sorong
4 décembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Landed after the over night flight. We were waiting in line to check into the hotel behind an Australian who had the 2018 skipping championship China backpack!
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A visit to the mall
4 décembre 2024, Indonésie ⋅ 🌧 30 °C
We are spending today and tonight at a hotel in Sorong and get on the dive boat tomorrow. Sorong is a port city and quite industrial. Most of the tourist top 10 recommendations have just 1 recommendation, which is to go diving in Raja Ampat 😆. So we went to the SAGA mall instead for lunch with air con, and we bought a few supplies. (I did not buy the corn candy or lickables, but always fun to see what the rest of the world is snacking on)En savoir plus
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