Hotel 1000 Dream Lovina

... head out to the Island together. As we were motoring out we could see the two Javanese volcanos (one called Krakatau ) towering over Menjangan Island as a backdrop.

Our first dive was at Coral Garden where we lowered ourselves into the water, only about 2m deep on a sandy clearing, we swam over to the coral about 10m away where the reef drops over a cliff, we dove along side the cliff at about 15m. there was tones of healthy reef and small fish, I saw a sea snake or eel in ...

... cooled two story bungalow right on the beach (170,000 rp). The Villa has a nice restaurant, is 300 meters set back from the road so it's REALLY quiet--heard the gentle waves lap against the shore all night long.

The staff are terrific. Nyoman is the go-to guy, his wife is the cook, and Annie waitresses and cleans the rooms. There is a really nice reading room above the restaurant where ...

... in the afternoon and left first thing in the morning, and didn’t really do anything noteworthy while there.

The Accident

We were keen to escape the heat of Lovina, and getting weary of travelling these bumpy roads in our tin-can-on-wheels that lacks any sort of suspension, we wanted to get the travelling part of our day out of the way! Because of the generally bad road conditions we are lucky to ever travel over 40km/hour so ...

Day 129

Today I spent the day wandering around Lovina, I went onto the beach and was hassled by some sellers, one even asking me to please buy a t-shirt as business is bad for her and she has to support her 3 kids since her husband died 3 months ago (i wasn't sure whether this was true or not but I didn't have the money to spend and there wasn't any t-shirts that i liked). I then met a german girl on the beach called Sara, about the only other ...

... and there was a big traffic jam meaning everything was progressing at a snails pace, however whilst we trundled along I got lots of ways and smiles and calls of "Hello" from the children as I passed by, It was really nice and naturally I waved and replied, I must have said hello to about 50 kids or so. Then we arrived in Singaraja and he said I now had to go with his friend to Lovina on his bike, I reluctantly said Ok ...

Morning Friends, Between sweating and drinking, life is tough! 1. It was Brent's 31st birthday yesterday. I guess there could be worse places to spend it...... Brent loves a swim and he was able to have 5 of them yesterday. Not even sure why he bother getting out at all. He did have a lovely birthday though, what with the swimming, the Hawks winning(Yes Kamil, your right ...

... his words not ours, at monkey forest. They bit a Kiwi and stole Laura's water bottle, opened it and finished it! Glad we'd had our jabs. Last stop was Tanah Lot the temple on the sea, we stayed until sunset. Chris got collared by an English teacher from Java who videoed us talking to show his students. They all came over, nervously and had to ask us questions. Then they wanted loads of photos ...

... I don't go to nightclubs much and when I do it doesn't take long for me to remember why I don't like them. Everyone is doing so much posturing wearing their expensive clothes and holding their expensive drinks. The looks of uber coolness being cast around the room are just laughable. In the end it all just seems so juvenile. I eventually spotted what I assumed were two local girls sitting a few seats down from me at the bar. They looked to be in their twenties and unaccompanied so ...

... we'd like to move with him, so we tucked ourselves even further under his wing and duly followed! After 5/6 days of boredom, frustration, cabin fever and fighting the urge to eat my own hands, the foot seemed to be on the mend (I'll save you the details of all the 'side effects' of my recovery, although strangely a LOT of toilet roll was used despite the fact I had an appetite smaller than a supermodel with a belly ache) so we headed back to the hospital. The doctor said he ...

... naming convention for the babies born in Ubud, it's pretty unique. And Eddie is an even more unique incarnation.) The temple is a sacred place, so you have to wear a sarong to enter (men too!). They have a bunch avail for all the foreigners who didn't know the rules. Not me, I rode a motorbike in a sarong. Aww yeah.... I've bought three new ones since I've been here, a tank top, sarong and my Teva's is now my daily routine. Ohh and lots of pretty ...