Not making it to Denpasar!
Trip Start
Apr 16, 2006
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40
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Trip End
Ongoing
Gillimanuk-Lovina,
Indonesia
Saturday, August 19, 2006
We eventually left at 12.30pm,and jumped on the back seat of a nice big air con bus,thinking ah this aint gonna be too bad the guy had said it was only 7hours and I'd be in Denpasar....NO CHANCE!
After an hour on the nice bus,they kick us off at a different stationand we get on the back of this crappy local bus,obviously wed paid over the odds to book the journey all in one go and all they were doing was taking our money and using public transport!
So we get on the back of the bus,and get kicked out of our seats on the back seat while 3 blokes fill the back of the bus with sacks of rice and bundles of grass and make us sit in the tiny cramped seats further down.Then after an hour we stop while the driver goes and gets his dinner at the side of the road,and then they decide to change the wheels,while one guy struggles with the massive tyre and another 10stand round watching!
Every 20minutes we stop to let 5 people on who cram the bus walking up and down selling drinks,rice crackers,knives,anything you can think of,and young lads with a tiny guitar give a quick blast of a song and then walk round with hands out asking for money!
So were crammed up on the bus and its getting dark and were stopping every 20minutes for no other reason but to let the sellers on while me and Si sit there with our heads in our hands.After about 5guitar players jump on and off the bus,a guy gets on in a burberry fake suit and hat,with a microphone and speaker and stands in the aisle and sqwarks away karaoke to this crap song,hilarious!Can you imagine it happening while your on a bus in England!?
Were really starting to get pee'd off and after being up since 4am its dark and cramped on the local bus,and we seem to be going round this place called "Bangywangy" for 2hours alone!9 hours later,when the guy reckoned Id be in Bali were still nowhere near the ferry and Si's sat next to me nearly crying saying I want my mom!haha so uncomfy crammed in the back of this bus with our knees up our ears sat on bags of rice.
Eventually we pull onto the ferry to cross to Gillimanuk which only takes an hour,but realising its another 4hour drive to Denpasar down south and its already 11pm and thinking Im not going to get anywhere open to sleep when I eventually get there,and none of us could bear to get back on the bus from hell,we decide to just forget the rest of the ticket and just stay over in Gillimanuk,the ferry port with nothing there but after getting on the back of 2 motorbikes and crashing into a shared room we just wanted to get our heads down after a 11hour nightmare journey and I still wasnt where I had booked to be!
Got up the next morning and realised I had plenty of time to kill and so decided to head onto Lovina, a quiet beach resort in north bali with Si and we get a bemo at 10am the next morning.
