Padang Bai Bali

Maaf maaf, komm her jetzt!

Enthusiastisch ging es für uns schon früh morgens auf den Weg in den Waterbom Park. Voller Vorfreude auf den bevorstehenden Spaßtag mit seinem Lieblingsmädchen Piepenhoe ist Jimbo mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit vorrausgeheizt. Weil er auch so gut den Weg kannte. NOT.
Piepenhoe hat kaum wütend 45 Minuten vor dem …

Amsterdam - Bali

Yes! Daar zitten we dan! Na lang wachten zitten we eindelijk in het vliegtuig naar Singapore en vervolgens Denpasar te Bali (Indonesia). Super spannend om iedereen voor zo lang achter te laten en het onbekende in te gaan.
En pfff... wát een lange reis zeg! 12 uur als een sardientje opgesloten is best vermoeiend. …

... September, and, along with Eric, a French guy we met at Ankermi, hired a taxi to take us to Padang Bai, a small port town on the east coast of Bali and the departure point for ferries to Lombok. Rich was kind of dreading the return to busy-busy Bali, ...

On Monday afternoon (26 September), after a great day's motorbiking among the volcanoes and paddy fields of eastern Bali, we sped back to Padang Bai to catch the shuttle bus to the airport. We arrived at about 8.30pm with plenty of time to spare - our ...

Ready at 8:00AM, Mark picked me up for the drive to Padang Bai. We arrived within an hour and a half, suited up and went for our first dive. The area where we dove is called Blue Lagoon and although pretty it was more about me managing my buoyancy than ...

... heading inland and when I spoke to the bus driver I found out that we are going to ubud before kuta, not that this is on the way from padang bai to kuta at all, but a total diversion. The bus driver said we'd get to kuta at 7.30, I told him we left Gili ...

... and no waiting around!!! Not the best way to do it but we made it. Not too long and we were pulled up in.padang bai port in Bali, where all the bags were unloaded for us, into a truck, we walked to a restaurant nearby waited minutes maybe and then we ...

... squashy but all our stuff was safe (and not lost!) and we got to see so much out the window. Place after place of Bali furniture workshops were flashing by - exactly what I'd love to decorate a house. The main highway was interesting - took a while to ...

... quite delicious I might add.     The day before yesterday we bought our tickets for 120,000idr per person from Lovina to Padang Bai, although when we went to dinner right after and saw it on the happy hour street for 110,000. Oh well.. We ...

... warmer in the day and comfortable at night. Perfection if you ask me, not too cold like Candikuning or too hot at night like Padang Bai. We got dropped off at a recommended homestay but it, and one down the street was full. A lady across the street ...

... not think too hard about for fear of realizing what it is that you are smelling…. If you catch my drift….. So, with the alarm set, ticket to Padang Bai purchased we went to bed ready for tomorrow’s adventure! 　 　 ...

... them with new friends, Annette and her two daughters,  Ketut (our local friend) with Louise joining us for the first one to Padang Bai. We visited the Blue Lagoon which I must admit at first did not measure up to my lofty expectations. I think we ...