Leaving Bali - to Nusa Penida

Close to Mt. Agung's summit is the Pura Pasar Agung Sebudi temple, known as Bali's highest tempel. On my way to Padangbai, where all the ferries to the east are departing, I decided the weather looks nice enough to make another try to get up into the mountains. Mt. Aung, Bali's highest mountain, was looking so stunning from Amed, that I wanted to go up as far as I can go by scooter. Hiking wasn't an option, as the hike is rough and very likely rainy, my Ijen-experience showed clearly that I've to be careful about hard hikes. 🙈
So Bali's highest temple was a nice destination to have a nice view from the mountain and to see an impressive temple. At least the second part worked out well. 😅
The ride upon Mt. Agung was really nice, steep and curvy roads with some nice views, here and there, but at a certain point, there were no proper roads to go. 🙈 As no GPS shows you road quality, it's always a guess, this time I ended up on a real destroyed dirt road for around 4 kilometers. 😯 Nevertheless, Cepi, my scooter, and me, did it, slowly but steadily, last kilometers to the temple were nice again, but bad weather came up. So the temple was completely in the clouds, when I arrived, some light rain started. Nevertheless the misty weather put a nice and interesting atmosphere onto the whole sight, visited it with Mike, a guy from the US, going around by bike, too, I'd just met at the parking area.
On my way down heavy rain started, too suddenly to find a roof, so went on fully soaked. 🙈
Luckily down at the coast the weather was nice, again, so when I arrived at Padangbai my clothes were dry again and I had a nice evening at Padangbai and at a hostel Téa had recommended, a very nice place. Ferry to Nusa Penida was relaxed, as usual, a short but nice ride to that beautiful tiny little island. 😍Read more