So internet access has been total crap. i have no idea how anyone could live blog from indonesia or even come close to keeping a blog up-to-date, granted we’ve been in very isolated spots where good food, internet access and transportation are all at a premium.
Here’s another email sent a few days ago, to our folks:
sorry for not keeping in touch, we’ve been without internet access
since we left Ubud on Saturday. All is well. We left Ubud for a tiny
island east of Bali called Nusa Lembongan. There are several famous
surfing areas here. Unfortunately the surfing season is from june to
september and so there was not a single wave to ride. we rented a
motor scooter and drove around the island’s one solitary road (only a
few light trucks are allowed on the road). Other than surfing,
Lembongan is known for it’s seaweed cultivation and every square meter
of shallow ocean is dedicated to farming seaweed. At the north of the
island there are hundreds of palapa shacks where local families
prepare the seaweed for processing. I took a bunch of photos. it was
so beautiful.We stayed on Lembongan for just one night. We had planned on staying
longer, but it’s very isolated and hard to move around without proper
transportation. the hotel we stayed at was alright, but we had wanted
to move across the island, but there was no way to move our luggage
and there wasn’t much more to do than hang out at the beach.So early sunday we headed to Dreamland Beach, a small sliver of sand
tucked up against a 50 foot rock wall. Dreamland is a wonderful little
collection of restaurants and shared houses for visiting surfers to
enjoy the many surf areas near by. but here there are no waves and
there is no transportation to get to the other surf spots. It also
seems to be a major stop for the package bus tours, yesterday after we
got here a ton of bus looking tourists showed up, all muslim men, from
java with long pants, hanging out at the beach, watching the
australians in bikinis. it was a little weird. but we have been having
a ton of fun doing nothing. reading. enjoying the sun, getting our
fair share of balinese cuisine, fried noodles and rice and vegetables.
this afternoon we rented another motor scooter and went to the temple
at Uluwatu, one fo the most sacred on the island. it’s a gorgeous
temple at the top of a 300 foot cliff, you can’t enter the most
beautiful part of it though, but it made for great pictures, with the
waves crashing heavy against the rock wall below. Marcia doesn’t like
the motor scooter. i think that’s the last one we’ll rent. it’s a tad
too dangerous for both of us to risk.Tomorrow we may move on to seminyak an area just north of Kuta, near
the ocean again, but a little more centrally located. from there we
can go to the beach, but we can also do day trips to other parts of
Bali, whereas here it’s just a bit too isolated.We’re both wanting to move on to Thailand. but we don’t leave until saturday.
we’ll write again soon.
love,
// marcia y mundo
