Villa Asante Bali
Travel Blogs from Canggu
First Full Wave at Echo Beach
... it. Last night’s bails are distant memory. The wave takes me. I have a second to pop up onto my feet. I do and ride right down the face and out in front of the liquid beast behind me. Elation, joy, adrenaline...whatever it is it feels 'effing good. I just rode a wave at Echo Beach. I think I might be an intermediate surfer now. Then the sets coming in smash me and remind me to know my place and respect the ocean. 30 minutes later the sets feel and look like ...
A Month and a Bit in Bali
... equally intimidating when you are out past the break and paddle for a wave and look down to realize you will actually be riding the thing. I’d like to share a quote from a recently new friend I made. He’s a friend of Danny Boy’s and hails from Quebec. I’ll call him The French Canadian. A few weeks ago he and I got caught on the inside during a morning surf. Being caught on the inside means you are in between the shoreline and the point where the waves are ...
Canggu
... the drivers handsomely and gave them a couple of Bintang (Local Beer) for their patience as we figured out what we should do next. One of the locals at the Green Room ended up taking us to his Grandmother’s Guesthouse where he knew there was room for us. Simple, clean but gorgeous rooms, we made ourselves at home quickly. They ended up bringing us three scooters so we could venture the ...
Gunung Batur y paseo por Ubud
... ce matin on s'est levé à 1h30! Et on appelle ça des vacances? On a pu admirer le lever de soleil depuis le Gunung Batur aprés 2 heures de montée àa la frontale au milieu des roches volcaniques. Après 3 petits déjeuners on s'est reposé un peu, on a practiqué notre art du marchandage au marché (on maîtrise désormais les numéros en Bahasa...) et on a vu un spectacle de Wayang Kulit (ombres ...
More than Twelve Monkeys
This is the last of my Bali trip over Christmas and as I said in my first entry about this trip it reminded me of the movie Twelve Monkeys with the animals running wild in the city. I think its mostly in the mornings that the monkeys venture outside their preserve.
So it was my last day in Bali and we all woke up early (Lauren, Helen and I) and did a ...