Tuban, Indonesia, Asia I had a great day touring Bali today! My tour guide, Bruce, picked me up at 8:30am, just after I said bye to Esther, and we headed north to see a traditional Barong dance. We arrived in Batubulan at 9:30am and had missed the first act of the dance, but it didn’t really matter. I was given a kind of playbill when I entered so I could recognize where they were in the dance, but I couldn’t…
Tuban, Indonesia, Asia I woke up this morning to a rather disappointing text message. Andrea wasn’t feeling well so she wasn’t up for going to Ubud for the day. The trip is too expensive to go on my own, so I didn’t end up getting to see it today. I did book a private tour of Bali for tomorrow though, and one of the stops is in Ubud to visit the Monkey Forest, so at least I’ll get to see…
Tuban, Indonesia, Asia Good news, I didn’t die in my sleep last night. I don’t know what that headache was all about, but it wasn’t cool. I felt fine this morning. I was meant to move out of my hotel today, and I was going to head up to Ubud until I called a few hotels only to find that they are all booked up. I decided that my better option was just to stay here for a few more…
Tuban, Indonesia, Asia I had the most incredible day diving today! It started with an early morning wake up to be picked up by the tour at 7:30am. I got on the bus and met two of my fellow divers for the day, an Italian couple named Silvia and Gabrielle. They were a very nice couple cardiologists from Genoa who have travelled all over the world together. They were very cool to talk to. We picked up another two guys…
Tuban, Indonesia, Asia I got up today hoping to have breakfast at my hotel, like they said I would last night, but they never came. That was a disappointing start to the day, but hey ho. I set off into Kuta to explore and it turns out my hotel is not that far from there at all. I am only a 10-15 minute walk to Kuta beach, but I’m far enough away that it’s fairly quiet. The only thing that…
Tuban, Indonesia, Asia I called it a night on the train at about 11pm and slept for most of the ride. I woke up a few times to check that my bags were all still where I’d left them. I have locks on all my zippers for my big backpack, but that wouldn’t stop anyone from picking the whole thing up and taking it. Of course, nothing like that happened and all was good when we pulled into KL Sentral…