Matahari Tulamben Resort Bali

... for me to go snorkelling today. One thing I noticed about Tulamben today was the change in the weather, the whole of the south is feeling the effects of the rainy season, whereas because Tulamben is located behind Gunung Agung the rainclouds cannot get to Tulamben, meaning within 30 minutes you can go from miserable drizzle to gorgeous,scorching hot sun and clear blue skies. The thing I love about Tulamben is how it is like the real Bali as I imagined it ...

... across to the island, discover that Shazza has traded me in for 3 blond Norwegian male supermodels, *****, I hate Shazza. Shazza comes over and talks to me later with the 3 supermodels types, I am hanging with the blond supermodels. Shazza and I are like B.F.F. Decide that Shazza is high maintenance and a bit of a loony, so slip away "Call you! You like ...complete me". On boat (another one), getting chatting to Adam, Adam is from ...

... option, not too loud, not too quiet; when we arrived at 6pm it was hard to imagine things getting any quieter. The horse and cart (cidomo) jingled its way toward us and took us to our bungalows, on the ten minute ride we saw about four people. But, this is partly the reason why we came, the islands (except Trawangan) don't really embrace all that comes with tourism, or at least haven't succumbed to the lures of taxis or mopeds. I think it gives them a real charm ...

So while in bali i met this irish girl who told me about these amazing islands with clear blue water no traffic and a really laid back feel to it. Closet thing to paradise I've ever encountered. The islands are tiny peaceful with no road traffic except for horse caridges that lazy tourists take and run sorta outa control. The 12 hour slow boat was long hot and sweaty, but i saved a fair amount of money, i may ...

... by white sandy beaches and crystal clear blue water. we enede up finding a really nice little bungaloo right across the street from the beach for cheap! thre are lots of tourists here and lots of fun restaurants and cafes. all the people working here really strive to make the feel of the isaldn really relaxed.... there is no pressure to buy anyhing from the vendor and no stress. its great! did some snorkeling today and just relaxed on the ...

... looking to entertain any of the women visitors to the island. This contrasts rather heavily with certain places in Thailand where there are lots of young women looking to entertain the men. The island seems to be run by these young men and they are happy to hook any of the male tourists with any party supplies that they may need. Of course anybody reading this that knows me would know that I would never do anything illegal, even if there are not any police on the ...

... place, a bit manky but it was only for one night. We walked to the bombing memorial Ground Zero, so sad, so many people died there, 50% of them were Australians! We enjoyed some of the nightlife in Kuta, you could buy a cocktail bucket for about 2euro.. mad! All tourists were taking full advantage of the offer and singing Karaoke...badly!! We enjoyed a relaxing day at the surfers beach before catching a flight to Perth in Australia.

... him, we could hardly see him! We saw a couple of bumphead parrot fish which are these huge grey things with bumps on their heads and white 'beaks' which, from far away look like a massive row of white teeth! Luckily they are harmless but it was enough to make my heart race!! There were quite a few other divers around on this dive which was actually a bit offputting - I thought it would put my mind at ease to be surrounded by other people but I kept catching sight of them in the ...

... right down to the floor (about three meters) and the instructor hurried over to pick me up. His name was Darta, and he was very teachery, but also fun, so we all had a good time. He really liked big fish. As Travis was navigating a line, he spotted a huge barracuda. We swam right over it a couple times. The remainder of the dive we explored the wall, which was very beautiful and full of pretty fish and corals and some odd clams that I ...

... temples, elephant cave, spring water a great view of the volcano and lake and the most important temple in Bali, in reality a collection of about 20 beautiful temples almost on top of the mountain. By 6 pm we were in Tulamben, half sleep since it was a long journey not as much for the distance but it is all mountain terrain with narrow curves left and right which makes the trip take quite some time. Once at the guesthouse which was very ...