Indonesia

We arrived in Bali Seminyak, our last destination. Looking out the window of the taxi from the airport to the hotel, I could immediately tell that indonesia was much more developed then our previous countries vietnam and cambodia. The shops were built up and the roads were paved. Our first day in bali we went to check out seminyak beach. Now...we have been lucky enough to see some beautiful beaches on our travels and therefore our standards had risen. This may be why we wasn't too impressed with seminyak beach... we walked along it ... and watched surfers try to surf the big waves but other then that... we did not indulge. However bali did offer some great little cafes and we definitely ate well! And I even tried their coffee which was very strong and smooth. Most our time was spent at the hotel swimming pool lounging around and of course swimming! Now..we had planned to head to Gili island the second week in bali however news of a potential tsunami in the philipines and indonesia scared us right of that idea! The thought of being on a island surrounded by water with that looming possibility did not sit well with us. And tbh... it did us a favour. As we still went to gili island but just for the day. And boy what a day it was. We basically travelled three hours there on a horrible jumpy speed boat which left ya stomach feeling like it was gonna come out of either end! Just to spend about 40 minutes on the actual island! And to be fair... that was probably all we would want to spend. The island was congested, dirty and smelly and they used poor horses to cart everyone around. And to top it off it started to rain while we was there. So our short time there was spent eating potato wedges and drinking orange juice then standing under shelter from the rain while we await our boat back. And the ride back was even worse then the ride there. But yes...we are thankful we didn't end up staying more time there like originally planned in gili. Overall bali was a good end to the trip.Read more