Generally, admitting yourself to hospital during a trip isn't something you look back on with fondness but it's not often you get your own room with AC and a reliably hot shower, decent WiFi and three meals a day which you select off a menu delivered to your bed whilst you watch movies on HBO. [...]
There's this water temple just north of Ubud that I'd really wanted to see but by the time we got to the area during our Big Bali Scooter Tour it was too late, but now I'm out of hospital and my lungs are behaving themselves we figured we could just nip up there from Padang [...]
By the time you make it from one side of Bali to the other you'll have built anti-scam defences to rival Fort Knox and you'll be so used to getting ripped off you don't even blink when someone tries to triple charge you for a bemo. Rp40,000 for lunch? Seems reasonable, here, take my wallet. [...]
For what is essentially a relatively small chunk of rock sticking out above sea level Bali has a lot of shit going on for it, predominantly in the form of Hindu temples. Everywhere you look there's a temple. Strolling through a forest? There'll be a temple. In a homestay? There'll be a temple. If there's [...]
We headed to Ubud with Candi and John, two humans staying in our hotel in Lovina who we'd befriended, and when you first arrive in Ubud after you've been relaxing on the beach or in the hills, all of your basic motor functions get scared and suddenly you don't want to stay in a hostel [...]
When you want to get a super early start so you can watch the sunrise over some UNESCO rice terraces but the guy at the homestay won't stop feeding you, though to be fair driving round the hills in the dark with no headlight probably wasn't the best plan ever so he might have saved [...]
Buoyed by my apparent newfound ability to ride a scooter with a passenger without crashing, having a nervous breakdown or generally terrorising the general public, we kept hold of the little Honda Vario for a couple more days. I mean, we asked and paid Rp50,000 per day for it. We didn't just nick off with [...]
Lovina Beach is more of a backpacker haunt than Pemuteran and the former can be reached from the latter by bemo, local mini van plying a set route, which you flag down on the side of the road. We were told at our guest house that we were looking at Rp50,000 each to get there [...]
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