Delfiner och vattenfall

Uppdatering: Nu kan ni se en film fran delfin-turen pa denna adressen
http://www.varedalageten.nu/movies/delfiner.html (ca 1.2 MB stor)

Dagarna efter att vi anlant lag vi en del pa stranden, men trottnade ganska snabbt pa alla forsaljarna som inte later en vara ifred. De vill salja allt ”for good luck for me” (dem sjalva alltsa).
Ann-Marie hittade ett hotell som tar 25 000 Rupiah for att ligga dar och anvanda poolen, sa det gjorde vi fredag och lordag.
Dar larde vi kanna 4 st engelskmaen, Johnny, Maz, Richard och Matthew. De har varit i Australien innan Bali, sa vi har fatt en del tips av dem.

Pa sondagen hyrde vi chauffor (han hette Komang) och bil for 400 000 Rupiah om dagen.
Matt bestamde sig att folja med oss, for hans kompisar var inte sa sugna pa att se norra delen av Bali.
Vi startade kl 8 och stannade forst vid Tanah Lot tempel ( http://www.bali-travelnet.com/tanah_lot.htm ).
Eftersom vi var dar tidigt pa morgonen kunde vi vandra ut anda fram till templet, men man far inte ga upp dar.
Det var fantastiskt fint dar, och vagorna slog upp mot klipporna. Valdigt effektfullt.
Det fanns ocksa en enorm fladdermus vid en av affarerna dar. Killen hade haft den sen den var liten, sa den stannade kvar av fri vilja.
Laddar upp bilder pa allt sen.
Efter templet var det dax for Monkey Forest. Jag hade ingen mat med mig ut, for de har sakert ett enormt luktsinne.
Mycket riktigt sa tog de tag i A-Ms kjol eftersom hon hade ett paket kex i vaskan. Guiden vi hade skrek ”no no!” nar hon plockade fram paketet. Helt hysteriskt. 🙂
Guiden plockade fram nagra enstaka kex och gav oss bitar i handerna som aporna plockade.
Det var flera apor som hangde i A-Ms kjol och hander vid olika tillfallen och de ville inte lamna henne fastan vi lockade med kex. De drog med henne bort till oss istallet.
Som tur ar har de inga klor, for da hade hon nog varit illa ute. :p
Vi fick aven se fladdermoss hangandes i traden i skogen, men vi hade ju redan sett en pa nara hall vid templet.

Efter aporna blev det lunch hogt uppe i bergen. Vi hade underbar utsikt och det var mycket god mat.
Matta och belatna akte vi vidare forbi nagra sjoar och sen stannade vi till vid en marknad (Tjandi Kuning). Dar inhandlade jag ett topp och ett par Billabong-shorts for 20 000 Rupiah var (ca 15 kr styck alltsa). Man kan ju inte fatta hur billigt det ar!
En sarong kan man fa for halva det priset. Men, nu ar det ju det har med utrymmet i ryggsacken. Det finns inget! Jag maste skicka hem grejer eller avverka saker om jag ska fa ner en sak till. 🙂

Efter marknaden akte vi till Git Git Waterfall. Vi har haft lite daliga erfarenheter av vattenfall innan, att de var sma och inte sa imponerande alltsa.
Detta var inte en besvikelse. Det var hogt och massor med vatten kom forsande ner. Man kunde inte ga for nara for da blev man dygnsur av vattenstanket.
Pa vagen ner dit fick vi se tva valdigt stora spindlar sittandes i sina spindelvav. De var ca 1 dm, och kroppen var kanske en tredjedel av det. Som tur var fanns det bara de tva pa vagen ner som jag kunde se iaf. :p
Vi sag aven tobakstrad och kaffebuskar, samt en massa tomma ris-falt. De hade redan skordat dem och nu maste de vanta nagra manader innan de satter nytt ris.
Pa vagen ner fanns det massor med affarer sa klart. Det finns det pa alla attraktioner pa Bali.
Det basta ar att man alltid kan pruta har. De t.o.m. foreslar det sjalva. 🙂

Nar vi lamnat vattenfallet akte vi slingriga vagar ner for berget mot Balis andra storsta stad, Singaraja. VI korde bara igenom for att na vart slutmal den dagen, Lovina.
Vi tittade forst pa ett hotell, men mannen dar hade ratt taskig attityd sa vi bestamde oss for att kolla vidare. Vi skulle boka delfin-turen sa Komang tog oss till ett trestjarnigt hotell dar de hade den turen. Matt gick och pratade med dem i receptionen for att forsoka fa ner priset och helt plotsligt hade han fatt pris pa tva rum ocksa. 600 000 Rupiah for alla oss fyra.
Visst, det ar mycker mer an vad vi brukar bo for, men eftersom det bara gallde en natt kunde det vara vart det (ca 116 kr per person).
For detta fick vi jattefint hotellrum, AC, handdukar, rena lakan, fin altan, frukost samt tillgang till en underbar pool.
Lite lyx far man ju unna sig.:)
Stallet heter Aditya Beach Resort.

Vi checkade in och sen rusade vi och bytade om till bikini och slangde oss i poolen. Det var redan morkt da, men vattnet var varmt och skont.
Efter en ol vid baren i poolen (man behovde inte lamna vattnet som tur var 😀 ), samt nagra vattenbomber gjorda av mig och A-M (The double Swedish bomb) gick vi och duschade och sen blev det middag.
Vid kl 10 och tva ol till (en ol kostade ca 5,50 dar pa Happy Hour) kande man sig ganska trott efter en sadan handelserik dag. Dessutom skulle vi upp kl 5.30 for att sen aka pa delfin-turen, sa det blev sangen.
Det tog nog inte mer an 1 minut for mig att somna efter att jag lagt ner huvudet pa kudden.

Vaknade av telefonvackningen kl 5.30 och kl 6 var det dax att aka ut med baten. Det var en langsmal bat med ”stodben” pa varje sida om den.
Det tog ca 20 minuter att kora ut och sen fick vi se delfiner! Det var flockar av dem, men de flesta sag vi bara pa langt hall. Det var ca 30 batar som ”jagade” efter dem, vilket inte kandes sa bra. Iofs kan de simma ivag om de inte tycker om det, men det kandes iaf.
Var forare holl sig lite i bakgrunden vilket jag tyckte var jattebra. Delfinerna kom ju forbi oss anda fastan vi inte jagade.
Tog en film pa dem, samt nagra bilder. Fick bara en bra bild pa nar en delfin hoppar, och A-M fick en valdigt bra bild pa det.
Det var svart att parera nar man skulle trycka pa knappen.
Vi horde aven en av dem lata. Vi var nog dar ute i ca 30 minuter och sen var det dax att aka in igen.
Fantastisk upplevelse!

Vi at av frukost och sen blev det poolen igen. Vi hade bestamt dagen innan att vi skulle stanna kvar till sista utchecknings-tid, vilket var kl 12.
Jag gick ner till stranden och plockade en massa snackor. Ska se om jag kan gora ett halsband till mig sjalv. Det hade ju definitivt varit ett minne fran Bali.

Efter att vi mast lamna detta underbara hotel korde vi upp for Mont Batur, dar det finns en vulkan. Bilen borjade krangla sa vi fick stanna lite da och da och lata den svalna.
Vi stannade till vid en restaurang dar man som utsikt hade vulkanen med Lake Batur precis nedanfor.
Vi hade tankt att traska upp for vulkanen nasta dag, men nar vi horde att det inte var en promenad i parken samt att det fanns massor med blodiglar dar, backade iaf jag.
Vi traffade pa Matts kompisar ocksa. De hade bestamt sig for att ta tva dagsturer och de korde forbi precis nar vi lamnade bilen for att ga in i restaurangen. Snacka om tillfallighet. 🙂
De akte vidare pa sitt hall och vi at lite lunch.

Nasta stopp var Tegalalang som har Balis storsta risfalt, samt mycket trahantverk.
Jag borjade undra vad det kostar att hyra en contaner, for jag sag massor med grejer som jag latt hade kunnat handla om jag hade haft mojlighet att skicka hem det. :p
Vi stannade till i Ubuds utkant vid Nbud Village for att titta pa konst. Jag hittade en oljetavla med pirajor (ja, det later konstigt, men den ar valdig frack 🙂 ) och fragade mest pa skoj vad den kostade.
Han sa 500 000 men att jag kunde pruta. Jag drog till med 200 000 (ca 155 kr) och trodde aldrig att han skulle ga med pa det.
Helt plotsligt hade jag kopt en tavla. Hoppla…
Jag angrar inte mitt kop, men nu maste jag fixa med frakt hem. Naja, det ordnar sig. :p

Nu var det fardighandlat for min del iaf och jag var duktig hos silversmeden i Celuk.
Fick lart mig lite Balinesiska medans Matt forhandlade om nagra armband. Matt handlar med bilar i UK, sa han har formagan att pruta vill jag lova. Det tog lite tid ocksa, sa jag fick grepp om en hel del uttryck. Jag larde dem ”inga pengar” pa svenska och kan nu detsamma pa Balinesiska. Det ar ganska bra att kunna. 🙂

Det var meningen att vi skulle sovit over nara vulkanen, men eftersom vi skippade trekkingen upp till vulkanen sa korde vi tillbaka till Kuta igen.
Vi lamnade av Matt vid hans hotell, Seaview, och checkade sen in pa Palm Garden igen.
Efter en valbehovd dusch gick vi till en restaurang som heter Ninety Degrees. Den ligger pa Poppy’s Road 2 och ar kanonbra. Billiga priser, god mat och mycket trevlig personal.

Det blev laggning innan kl 12 och dagen efter vid 9 akte vi 4 med Komang igen.
Vi korde nerat for att aka till Turtle Island, men nar vi fick reda pa att de inte ar fria var det inte sa intressant. De har dem i stora bambu-burar och det sag inte alls trevligt ut.
Jag ville ju ateruppleva det vi sag i Oman for ca 18 ar sedan, men det far bli nagon annanstans istallet.

Vi korde in till BaliHilton ( http://www.balihilton.com/ ) i Nusa Dua och tog en massa bilder. Vilket hotell!
De har en enorm vattenfontan pa framsidan och en stor sjo pa baksidan. Foajen ar enorm med utskurna drakar uppe i taket m.m. Valdigt imponerande, och tydligen inte sarskillt dyrt om man mater med svenska maett (ca 720 kr per natt for det billigaste rummet).
Efter det korde vi till GerGer Beach vid sidan om. Dit ska vi defintivt nagon dag och bada. Vattnet var kristallklart och det basta av allt var att det inte fanns nara forsaljare dar. 🙂

Vi fortsatte var resan till Ubud Center dar vi hade lunch. Efter det gick vi in till Kings House dar vi fick ta bilder tillsammans med en gammal man. Det var givetvis inte gratis, men det var inte manga kronor han ville ha for det. 🙂
Sen blev det marknad igen. Jag kopte endast en stor vattenflaska och holl mig alltsa i skinnet igen. 🙂
Vi stannade dar ca 1 timme och sen bar det av till Goa Gajah (Elephant Cave) som ar ett tempel.
Vi fick lana saronger och ha pa oss eftersom vi alla bar shorts.
Jag gick lite fore de andra och traffade pa en gammal kvinna som visade mig hur jag kudne offra blommor och pengar till gudarna, sa det gjorde jag. Nej, jag har inte konverterat till hinduismen, men det var en intressant upplevelse. 🙂
Hon visade mig aven hur de gjorde med riset efter det torkat och lat mig ta nagra bilder pa henne.

Nu var iaf jag ganska mattad pa kultur och att kora runt, sa vi bestamde oss for att bara stanna till pa ett stalle till och det var Wooden Village.
Matt, A-M och Camilla hittade lampor som de ville ha, sa de prutade i nan timme eller natt. Till slut fick de lamporna till ett bra pris och packade in dem i bilen. Nu hade vi lyckats att dubbla var packning i bilen, men jag var iaf inte orsaken denna gangen. 🙂

Trotta och mycket belatna akte vi tillbaka till Kuta. En dusch senare traskade vi till Ninety Degrees dar vi traffade killarna. Vi at middag och lite senare gick jag hit till Internetcafeet dar jag fick lana webcamera.
Min mamma var online sa hon fick se mig ”Live” for forsta gangen pa ca 83 dagar. Efter en stund kom aven brorsan (samt Lotte, Tilde och Maja) online sa att vi kunde se varandra (de har webcam).
Det var kanonroligt, och nu har jag foreslagit till mamma att de kanske ocksa skulle skaffa en webcam.
Visst, det ar inte som att se varandra i verkligheten men det ar iaf det narmsta man kan komma sa har. 🙂

Idag blir det sol och bad vid Seaviews hotell och pa fredag kommer vi antagligen att resa till Gili Trawangan, som ligger nordvast om oen Lombock, precis oster om Bali.

Kram pa er alla!

English version!

Update: Now you can see a movie from the Dolphin-tour at http://www.varedalageten.nu/movies/delfiner.html (about 1.2 MB large)

The days after we arrived we lay at the beach, but got tired of it pretty soon due to all the sales guys not leaving us alone. They wanted to sell everything for ”good luck for me”. For them that is…
Ann-Marie found a hotel that charges 25000 Rupiah for using the pool and the sunbeds, so we did that Friday and Saturday.
We got to know 4 English guys there, Johnny, Maz, Richard and Matthew. They visited Australia before Bali so we got some good tips from them.

On Sunday we rented a chauffeur (his name is Komang) and his car for 400 000 Rupiah a day.
Matt decided to come with us, because his friends wasn’t that interested in going to northern Bali.
We started at 8 and did our first stop at Tanah Lot Temple ( http://www.bali-travelnet.com/tanah_lot.htm ).
Since we where there early in the morning we could walk all the way to the temple, but you are not allowed to go up there.
It looked fantastic, and the waves hit the cliffs on the sides of it. Very effect full.
There was also a big bat at one of the stores close by. The guy had it since it was small, so it stayed there of free will.

After the temple it was time for Monkey Forest. I had no food with me out, because I bet they have great sense of smell.
That was correct because as soon as we entered, the monkeys started grabbing A-Ms skirt since she had a packet of biscuits in her bag. The guide yelled ”no, no!” when A-M wanted to take out the package from her bag. Totally hysterical. 🙂

The guide took out a few biscuits and gave us pieces of it to have in our hands and let the monkeys take it.
Several monkeys hanged on to A-Ms skirt and hands at different occasions and they didn’t want to leave her even tho we had biscuits in our hands. They dragged her to us instead.
Lucky enough they don’t have claws, or else she would have been in big trouble. :p
We also got to see bats hanging in the trees in the jungle, but we had already seen one up close at Tanah Lot, and that was more fun. 🙂

After the monkeys we went for lunch high up in the mountains. We had a great view and it was terrific food.
Filled of food and very happy we went past a few lakes and then we stopped at a market (Tjandi Kuning).
I bought a top and a pair of Billabong-shorts for 20 000 Ruphiah each. I can’t believe how cheap it is here.
You can get a sarong for half that price..
But, there is this thing about having space in the backpack. I don’t! I have to throw things or send them home to be able to fit one more thing in it. :p

After the market we went t Git Git Waterfall. We had a few bad experiences of waterfalls before, but this was no disappointment.
It was big and lots of water coming down from it. You can’t get close to it without being soaked.
On the way we got to see two very big spiders sitting in their webs. They were about 1 dm and the body was about one third of that. Lucky enough there was only two of them there that I could see at least. :p
We also saw tobacco trees, coffebean-bushes and lots of empty rice-fields.
They already harvested them and have to wait a few months to put new rice there.

On the way there was tons of shops of course. It’s the same thing at all of the attractions on Bali.
The best thing is that you can bargain a lot here. They even suggest it themselves. 🙂

When we left the waterfall we drove down on twisting roads towards Bali’s second biggest town, Singaraja, We only drove through to get to our final destination, Lovina.
First we had a look on one hotel, but the man there had a pretty nasty attitude, so we decided to look further. We wanted to book the dolphin-tour so Komang took us to a 3-star hotel where they had that. Matt went to the reception desk to try to bargain on the tour-price and all of a sudden he got a good price for two rooms.. 600 000 Rupiah for the 4 of us.
Sure, it’s a bit more than I usually want to charge for a room, but since this was for only one night it could be worth it.
For that kind of money we got a very nice hotel room, AC, clean sheet, towels, nice porch, breakfast and access to a wonderful swimming pool.
Have to get a little luxury sometimes. The place is called Aditya Beach Resort.
We checked in, ran to the room to change to bikini and ran to the pool. It was already dark by then, but the water was warm and nice. 🙂
After a beer from the bar at/in the pool ( we didn’t even have to leave the pool lucky us 😀 ), a few water bombs made by A-M and me ( called The Double Swedish Bomb) we went for a shower and then for dinner.

At ten and after two more beers (one beer was 7000 Rupiah on Happy Hour) I felt very tired after an exciting day.
The fact that we had to go up at 5.30 the next morning for the Dolphin-tour made me go to bed then.
I don’t think it took more than a minute for me to fall asleep after I put down my head on the pillow.

I woke up by the wake up-call at 5.30 and at 6 it was time to go out with the boat. It was a long and narrow boat with some kind of supporting sticks on the sides.
It took about 20 minutes to drive out and then we got to see dolphins! There were plenty of them, but most of them we saw from a distance.
There was about 30 boats that ”chased” the dolphins, which didn’t feel that good. I know that they can swim off if they don’t like it, but I felt bad about it anyways
Our driver kept a bit in the background, which I felt was really good. The dolphins came past us anyways even tho we didn’t chase them.
I made a movie of them and also pictures. I only got one good picture of a dolphin jumping, and A-M got a very good one.
It was not easy knowing when to press the button on the camera…
We also heard the sound from one of them. We stayed for about 30 minutes and then we headed back to the resort again.
It was an amazing experience!
We had a great breakfast and then we headed for the pool again. We decided the day before that we would stay until last check-out time at 12.
I went down to the beach and picked some seashells. I will try to make a necklace to myself as a memory from Bali

After we had to leave this wonderful hotel, we drove up to Mont Batur, where there is a volcano. The car started to get warm, so we had to stay here and there to let it cool off.
We stopped at a restaurant where you have the view of the volcano and the Lake Batur just below it.
We had plans of trekking up the volcano the next day, but when we heard that it’s not a walk in the park, and that there are lots of leeches, I changed my mind. :p
We met Matt’s friends also. They had decided to take two day trips and drove by just when we went out from the car to enter the restaurant. Talk about coincident. 🙂
They went again and we had some lunch.

Next stop was Tegalalang, where the biggest rice field in Bali is, and a lot of wood-craft.
I started to wonder what it costs to rent a container, because I saw lots of stuff I could have shopped if I had the possibility to send it home. :p
We stopped in the outskirts of Ubud in Nbud Village to look at art. I found a oil painting with piranhas (yes, It sounds strange, but it’s a really cool painting. 🙂 ) and asked mostly for fun how much it was.
He said 500 000 Rupiah, but told me I could bargain. I told him 200 000 and thought he would never agree.
All of a sudden I bought a painting. Oopsie daisy…
I don’t regret buying it, but now I have to send it home. Well it will be no problem :p

Enough shopping for me, and I was really good keeping that promise at the silversmith in Celuk.
I got to know a bit of Balinese while Matt bargained about a few bracelets. Matt is dealing with cars in UK, and he has the bargain-skill I can tell you.
It also took time, so I got to know lots of expressions. I taught them ”no money” in Swedish and now I know those words in Balinese.
It’s very good to know down here. 🙂

We where meant to stay close to the volcano overnight, but since we skipped the trekking up the volcano, we went back to Kuta instead.
We left Matt at his hotel, Seaview, and then checked in to Palm Garden again.
After a shower, well needed, we went to a restaurant named Ninety Degrees. It’s on Poppy’s Road 2 and is perfect.
Cheap, good food and very nice people there.

It was bedtime before 12 and the day after, at 9, the 4 of us went with Komang again.
We went south of Kuta to got o Turtle Island, but when we found out they weren’t free it wasn’t interesting.
They where captured and living in big bamboo-cages and it didn’t look pleasant.
I wanted to re-live what we saw in Oman 18 years ago, but that has to be somewhere else instead.

We drove in to BaliHiltons area ( http://www.balihilton.com/ ) in Nusa Dua and took a lot of pictures. What a hotel!
They had an enormous fountain in the front and a big lake in the back. The lobby is huge with wood-dragons in the ceiling amongst other things.
Very impressive place and not too expensive if you think of the prices for hotels in Sweden.
After that we went to Ger Ger Beach next to Hilton. We are definitely going there to swim one day. The water was crystal clear and the best of all – no sales guys!

We continued our trip to Ubud where we had lunch. After that we went to King’s House and took a lot of pics, one with an old man. It was not for free to make a picture with him, but it was small change for us.
Then another market! I behaved and only bought a big bottle of water there. 🙂
We stayed there for about an hour and then we headed for Goa Gajah (Elephant Cave) which is a temple.
We had to borrow sarongs, since we all had shorts on.
I walked a bit in front of the others and met an old woman that showed me how I could sacrifice flowers and money to the Gods, so i did that. No I haven’t converted to Hinduism, but it was an interesting experience. 🙂
She also showed me how the handle the rice after it dried and let me take a few pictures of her.

At this point I kind off had enough culture for one day, so we decided to only stop at one more place and that was Wooden Village.
Matt, A-M and Camilla found garden lamps they wanted, so they bargained for an hour or so. Finally they got the lamps for a really good price and packed them in to the car. We had now succeeded to double the packing in the car, but at least I wasn’t the source to it. 🙂
Tired and very happy we went back to Kuta.
A shower later we went to Ninety Degrees where we met the guys. We had dinner and a little later I went to this Internet cafe and I got the chance to borrow a web cam.
My mom was on line so she got to see me ”live” for the first time in 83 days. After a while also my brother (his wife, and the kids too) came on line so we could see each other (they already have a web cam).
It was lots of fun and I proposed to my mom to get a web cam too.
Of course it’s not like seeing each other in real life, but it’s the closest we can get to it. 🙂

Today it’s gonna be sunbathing at Seaviews hotel and on Friday we will probably go to Gili Trawangan, which is northwest of the island Lombock, east of Bali.

Hugs to you all!