Puri Mesari Sanur

... are Hindus and there lies the connection. The hotel was really a large tropical garden dotted with small brick built rooms, each with a veranda and wicker furniture. Some buildings were larger with 2 floors. Our room was on the 1st floor overlooking one of the two pools. The en-suite room had no roof over and was set in its own small garden (if you ran out of loo roll you could reach out and pick a leaf).<br>The small town of Sanur is set on the eastern ...

... pretty much living like royalty.) A meal for two that won't leave you hungry is going to run you about $5. A cold beer is $1. And, for some reason, we've suddenly become addicted to Mentos (The Freshmaker) which we drop 30 cents a roll on from time to time.<br><br>Anyway, we hope you enjoy this small set of pictures. We promise more are on the way!<br><br>Until next time,<br>Jon and Liz<br>

... appeals to all the senses: constant incense wafting, colorful offerings to the Gods placed in tiny banana leaf baskets in the temples and on the streets, lush gardens fiilled with fragrant frangipani and champaka, the Balinese people and their special temple dress with sarong and sash. It's very special to be in a place where it's socially acceptable for men to wear flowers behind their ears ...

... There were 7 of us guests, with 9 staff. This included 3 gorgeous girls who were always making sure we had a drink in hand. 3 guys who were the maintenance and room service guys. Plus they did our daily laudering, I saw one of them ironing my bonds undies! A chef, a secuirty gaurd and our driver! Slightly excessive one might think.... but it was amazing! I'd even go as far to say it may be the most amazing place I stay in my life! Now in Bangkok... had a nice ...

Fradicio, infreddolito, completamente perso. Mi fermo di nuovo e chiedo all'ennesimo tizio a bordo strada la solita domanda: "Ubud?". Ricevo l'ennesima risposta a gesti, sempre uguale: devo tornare indietro e girare a destra alla prossima strada. Ho l'impressione che mi stiano pigliando tutti per il culo: saro' tornato indietro ed avro' girato a destra almeno dieci volte. Magari e' un passatempo dei locali, guardare lo straniero in moto che si perde in giro per l ...

... hlen Wind genossen. Leider hat es dann zum Nieseln angefangen und ich hab mich ins Cafe Bonsai verzogen (da haben wir an einem unserer ersten Abende mit den anderen Volontären schon gegessen). Hab dort bissl gelernt, meine besten gebratenen Nudeln bisher gegessen, einen Advokadosaft getrunken und bin wieder zurückgefahren. Diesmal hab ich die andere Richtung genommen und da war ich ziemlich fix wieder daheim.

... night club it was closer to thirty. I had assumed that the girls were Balinese and I had been right. The Balinese tended to have darker skin than most other Southeast Asians I had seen. Dhilla, 26, was the name of the girl I asked to dance and her friend's name was Febby who was 25. I discovered this through the standard shout-talking that a night club requires. At some point, while I was talking to Dhilla, two French guys came up and started talking with Febby. Eventually Dhilla ...

... attraction is. It may be the fabulously nice people, which Bali has in spades. We decided to get out of Kuta and see the rest of Bali before we moved on. Bali island is a big and very beautiful place. It's peppered with giant volcanic peaks and is home to more exquisite wood carvers then I've ever seen - workshops line the lush country roads. We saw most of this on a bus from Kuta to Padang Bai (a port ...

... at numerous meals some of which were at his own family's restaurants including a great lunch at the Kopi Bali Café and a fun night of dinner and live entertainment at the Jazz Cafe. We've had such amazing hosts on our trip, but Harry really takes the cake with his almost devotional concentration on being a host and his extreme generosity. So now that we've introduced Harry we can get on with monkey poop coffee. Ever since we had started relating that we were going to Bali we ...

... to the restaurant. we are not used to that kind of service at all. but the diving was good. we saw an octopus, a cuttle fish, a giant clam and a white tipped reef shark as well as tons of coral and brightly colored fish. i tried my hand at underwater photography and decided i didn't like being so distracted. here is where it gets interesting. in the evening after dinner, the cook suggested we go to the temple in town for the barong dance. unlike the one we ...