Jayakarta Beach Resort Legian

Hi everyone, I have come to the internet cafe early and still have sweat running off me. Its worse in here at night, but I think everyone in Bali is hot and sweaty and unable to wear any sort of makeup. There were two girls at the pub the other night with heaps of makeup but they just looked out of place. It is a holiday in Bali today so a lot of people have closed shop and gone back to their villages to go to their temples and celebrate with their families. It should be a ...

... usual set of questions, and he invited me in to take a look around Poppies Cottages and to take some photos. Not sure why I particularly wanted to do this, I obliged, mostly out of curiosity! We carried on chatting for awhile and in the end, he invited me to his younger brother's wedding - in two days time! Wow, I'm really on a roll - and speaking a bit of the bahasa (language) goes a long way around here! I graciously accepted even though it meant staying in Kuta a ...

... Our guide took us into a "compound" of where a local family lived and showed us all the different temples that each compound has. The start of the compound is the huge gated entrance with largely ornate details that are believed to ward off evil spirits. Our guide was Hindu and was telling us about their different beliefs and traditions. So interesting! We leave Kuta tomorrow morning and are heading to a different small town on the other side of the island.

... smack the reef, creating the gaping barrels that g-land is so famous for. there was only one morning when it really turned on, and i took more than a few on the head, which puts the fear in you when the reef is only three feet deep. but i also got a few to remember, although, sorry boys, i did not get any photographic evidence; guess me and the photographer keep different hours. the camp itself is set back a few hundred feet from the beach, and at all ...

Tanah Lot is another beautiful temple on the sea...we went there to see the sunset, which was, of course, absolutely beautiful. We wished that we would have gone earlier because the whole area is a huge park like place with lots of sub-temples and of course TONS of shopping right outside. Maybe next time...

... on the beach. Nyepi itself actually means silence and so we spent the day locked (literally) within the hotel, then come evening we weren't allowed to turn on any lights (quite an experience). The island is completely inactive so when the evil spirits descend they decide that Bali is unihabited & leave the island alone for another year. I was gutted of course to be forced to spend a day by the pool in the sunshine (while poor KT rested indoors).

Jetzt haben wir langsam ziemlich viele suedostasiatische Laender kennengelernt und muessen feststellen, dass uns Kambodscha immer noch mit Abstand am besten gefaellt. Zwar gibt es hier auch Reisfelder, aber auf Bali handelt es sich fast immer um Reisterrassen, die zwar wunderbar sind, aber trotzdem irgendwie nicht mit Kambodscha konkurrieren koennen. Aber durch die indonesische Hochzeit und einen Fahrer, der uns einen Tag auf der Insel herumgefahren hat, haben wir sehr viel ...