Shopping, kultur och svårt avsked

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Efter tva dagar av ren avslappning vid poolen traffade vi pa Chris och Richard igen.
De hade vandrat upp for vulkanen Gunung Agung och var ratt moera i benen efter 12 timmars utflykt.
Vi bestamde oss iaf for att ata middag tillsammans pa kvallen, och det blev nere pa stranden i Jimbaran.
Det var fullt med restauranger dar och alla serverade fisk och skaldjur.
A-M slog till med att testa hummern (som hon fick valja ut fran ett akvarium) och det var ingen liten krabat. 1,2 kg vagde den, men som de flesta vet ar det mesta skal. 🙂
Richard och jag delade pa en ”red snapper” samt nagra stora rakor.
Det var underbart gott, samt att det var himla mysigt att sitta nere vid havet och se de stora vagorna dundra in.
Som om det inte var nog kom det ett gang musiker och spelade for oss. Den ena killen var val inte det vackraste jag sett (det fattades ett antal tander i den munnen :p) men han var sa himla charmig. Han sjong for allt vad han orkade och spexade till det. Lagger upp bilder sa fort jag har mojlighet och tid.

Pa lordagen var A-M och Chris och dok, och da passade Camilla och jag pa. Vi gick till ett spa dar jag klippte mig (ca 38 kr) och Camilla gjorde inpackning samt fick huvudmassage. 🙂

Pa kvallen blev det middag pa Ninety Degrees med grabbarna samt Laura, en kompis till Richard.
Efter det blev det Fuel dar vi testade pa nagra nya cocktails och sen Paddys dar de som ville dansade loss.
Det blev ganska tidig hemgang for mig. Klockan var nog inte mer an 2.
Camilla, som gatt hem en timme tidigare, var fortfarande vaken sa vi snackade en stund innan vi sen somnade.

Kl 9 knackar det pa dorren och dar star en morgonpigg Chris. *suck* :p
Det var den stora shoppingdagen eftersom bade han och Camilla skulle hem pa mandagen.
Vi hasade oss ur sangarna och borjade promenera. Ga en bit, stanna och kolla i affar, ga en bit, stanna och kolla i affar, ga en bit….Ja, ni fattar, 🙂
Pa kvallen gick vi till Hard Rock Cafe’ och provade deras enorma desserter. Som tur var delade A-M och jag pa en Hot Fudge Brownie, och vi orkade inte ens ata upp den.
Efter att de spelat en del videos med bl.a U2, Linkin Park, blev det live-upptradande med DB-8, Hard Rocks hemmaband. En tjej och en kille stod for sjungandet och jaklar vilken rost hon hade.
Pa vagen hem fick A-M Chris att springa ut i havet och ta ett avskedsdopp. Weehaa!

Sa var det da dax for var ”lilla-syster” att resa ifran oss…Vi har spenderat 3 veckor ihop och har kommit varandra nara. Det var valdigt, valdigt jobbigt att behova saga adjo till henne. Hoppas att vi far chans att traffa henne igen innan hon aker hem till Norge i augusti (hon flyger nog fran Bangkok samma dag som vi flyger till Au darifran).
Att skiljas fran Chris var inte heller enkelt. Han ar en rolig, mycket trevlig och omtanksam manniska som har gett oss manga skratt under den ganska korta tid vi anda spenderat ihop. Tillsammans med Richard sa var vi ett glatt gang som funkade mycket bra.
Som jag skrivit innan ar detta det svaraste med att resa sa haer( forutom att man saknar familj och vanner). Men livet ska ju inte bara vara en dans pa rosor, for da vet man inte hur bra man har det.

Richard hangde med oss pa trost-shopping. A-M bokade ocksa trekking pa onsdag uppfor vulkanen som Chris och Richard gjorde forra veckan.
Jag star over, eftersom jag vet att jag inte kommer att fixa att ga upp hela vagen, och da kanns det inte lont.
Efter en heldag ute i Kuta var vi helt slut och vandrade tillbaka till vart hostel.
Dar var det valdigt tomt, nu nar inte Camilla och extrasangen var dar langre…

Igar akte vi med buss till Ubud. Med oss var tva svenska killar, Krille och Martin, som jag och Camilla snackat med pa stan i lordags.
Vi traffade aven dem nar A-M bokade sin trekking, och Krille verkade lite intresserad av att gora det ocksa. Vi far val se. 🙂
Grabbarna har jobbat pa fiskebat i Darwin, AU, och spenderar nu en vecka pa Bali innan hemfarden pa fredag.

Jag shoppade presenter som jag ska skicka hem fran Kuala Lumpur (det ar valdigt mycket billigare att posta grejer dar) och sen lunchade vi med grabbarna.
De akte vidare till Denpasar vid 3 och vi akte for att se hur de tillverkar traskulpturer.
Vilka konstverk! De gors av ett stort stycke trad och vissa av traskulpturerna ar sa detaljerade att man bara undrar hur de lyckas.
Ubud ar center for tillverkning av bade tavlor och tra-skulpturer, sa det var skoj att fa se det dar.

Nar vi gick mot King’s palace, dar vi skulle se den traditionella dansen lite senare, traffade vi pa Inga, fran Tyskland. Hon var med pa bussen fran Padangbai till Kuta nar vi akte fran Gili. Hennes andranamn ar forresten Malmo, sa hon fnittrade till nar jag sa var jag bor. 😀
Vi tog en fika med henne och gick sen in for att ta plats pa King’s Palace.
Vid detta laget var det morkt ute (7.30 pa kvallen) och de hade taent ljus. Det var valdigt stamningsfullt och det kandes som om man var pa teater. Mycket riktigt sa var det agerande i dansen. Den handlade om en prinsessa som blev kidnappad och sen fick man se hur hennes bror och vaen raddade henne. Allt detta gjorde utan ett ord fran de som dansade, utan de visade med haender och ogon vad som hande i ”pjasen”.
Det var vart varenda Rupiah (50 000) att se detta.

Idag har vi varit pa Dreamland-stranden (Sam, Richard, Krille, A-M och jag). Vi kom dit med moped. A-M korde och jag satt som vilken annan utsmyckning som helst dar bak. 🙂
Det var ca 30 minuters korning ner dit. Det ar en strand dar det finns en hel del surfare, vilket betyder hoga vagor. Det var inte hoga vagor hela tiden idag dock. ”Det gar i vagor” som A-M uttryckte sig. :p
Vi fick iaf lekt lite i vattnet och jisses va slut man var efter det. Ibland kom det dubbelvagor sa nar man tittade upp efter att ha dykt igenom den ena, sa fick man nasta rakt i fejjan. Halva havet upp i nasan, vilket ar dagens i-landsproblem. :p
Pa vagen hem blev vi av med de andra, sa vi fick fraga oss fram for att kunna hitta tillbaka till Kuta.
Tyvarr sa fragade vi en polis och han tog hand om A-Ms internationella korkort, samt registreringsbeviset till mopeden, samt bad henne folja med till baset.
Han pastod att hon hade gjort fel vid korsningen och ville att hon skulle betala boter annars blev det fangelse…
Detta ar den korruption som man bara hort om innan, for inte gjorde hon nagot fel. Han hotade med fangelse for att fa henne radd nog sa hon skulle betala dem kontant dar.
Jag gick in och forsokte prata med dem, men om vi inte betalade dar direkt sa skulle de behalla hennes korkort, och det ville vi inte. Vi kom undan med 50 000 Rupiah och en skramselhicka som heter duga.
Som tur var hittade vi tillbaka till Kuta utan nagra fler incidenter…

Det blev middag med Richard och sen akte A-M och Krille ivag for att promenera upp for vulkanen. De ar tillbaka vid 3 imorgon eftermiddag igen.

Nu ar det bara 2 dagar kvar har pa Bali, och det kanns jattetrakigt. VI har sa roligt har och det finns sa mycket mer att se, men det far bli nasta gang.
Det enda man ar trott pa ar alla ”hello daaaaaaling, braiiid your haaaaaiiiir?” ”pineapppllllleeee” ”sexyyyy bum, manicure?”, men det kan man leva med :p

Har iaf fatt hora att Oscar (min vovve) mar bra och har fatt en ny kompis. En katt!
De sover t.o.m tillsammans ibland.
Lustigt att han ratar tva tikar for en katt, men sa lange han ar lycklig sa. 🙂
Hej Lena och tack for att du hjalper mig med detta!

Nu ska jag ladda upp lite mer bilder.
Kram pa er alla!

English version:
(sorry for all spelling-a and grammarerrors :p)

Update on my photoalbum:
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After two days of relaxing at the pool, we met Chris and Richard again.
They have been walking up the vulcano Gunung Agung and was pretty tender in their legs after a 12 hour trip.
We decided to have dinner together that evening, and we went to the beach in Jimbaran.
It was filled with restaurants and everyone served fish and seafood.
A-M decided to try the lobster (she chose it from an aquarium) and it wasn’t a small little fellow. He weighed 1,2 kg, but as most people know it’s mostly shell. 🙂
Richard and I shared a red snapper and a few prawns.
It was delicious, and it was very cosy to sit there close to the sea and see the big waves come in.
As if that wasn’t enough a gang of musicians came to play for us. One of the guys wasn’t the most beautiful I seen (he lacked a few teeth :p) but he was very charming. He sang for all that he could and joked around. Will put up pictures asap.

On Saturday A-M and Chris went diving, and Camilla and me went to a spa. I got a haircut (50 000 Rupiah) and Camilla got head massage and some repair creme in her hair.

In the evening we went to Ninety Degrees with the guys and Laura, a friend of Richards.
After that we tried a few new cocktails on Fuel and then Paddy’s, a dance place.
I went home quite early, at 2. Camilla, that went home an hour earlier, was still awake, so we talked for a while before falling asleep.

At 9 there is someone knocking on the door, and there is a very morning-early person called Chris. *sigh* :p
It was the big shopping day since both he and Camilla was leaving the day after.
We got out of our beds and started to walk. Walk for a while, stop and look in a shop, walk for a while, stop to look in a shop, walk for a while….well you get the picture. 🙂
In the evening we went to Hard Rock Cafe and tried their huge deserts. Fortunately A-M and me shared a Hot Fudge Brownie, and we didn’t even finish that one.
After they played some videos with U2, Linkin Park amongst others, a live-band started to play. It was DB-8, Hard Rocks own house-band, I guess.
There was one girl and one guy singin, and darn what a voice that girl had.
On the way home A-m got Chris to take a goodbye-swim in the ocean. Heehaw!

On Monday it was time for our ”lil-sister” to leave us…We have spent 3 weeks together and we got really close. It was very very hard to have to say goodbye to her. I hope we get a chance to meet her again before she goes back to Norway in August (I think she flies out from Bangkok the same day as we fly to Brisbane, AU the 2nd of August).
To part from Chris was not a walk in the park either. He is a funny, very nice and thoughtfull person that has given us many laughs during this still short time we spent together.
Together with Richard we where a happy gang that worked really well!
As I wrote before this is the hardest part of this way of traveling (except that you miss the family, friends at home so much). But the life shouldn’t be too easy I guess.
Richard went with us on some comforting shopping. A-M also booked trekking on Wednesday up the volcano, the same as Chris and Richard did last week.
I pass, since I know I wont be able to walk all the way up, and I feel it’s not worth it.
After a whole day outside in Kuta we where all done and walked back to our hostel.
It was very empty there now, with no Camilla and no extra bed…

Yesterday we took the bus to Ubud. With us we had two Swedish guys, Krille and Martin, which Camilla and me talked to out in town on Saturday.
We also met them when A-M booked her trekking and Krille seemed interested in tagging along. We will see.
The guys have been working in Darwin, AU on a fishing boat and is now spending a week at Bali before returning home to Sweden.

I shopped a lot of gifts that I will send home to Sweden from Kuala Lumpur (it is very much cheaper and faster from there) and then we had lunch with the guys.
They went on to Denpasar at 3 and we went to see how they make the wood-caving.
Pieces of art! They are made from one big piece of wood and some of the sculptures are so detailed that you wonder how they succeed.
Ubud is center for production of paintings and wood-carving so I was nice to be able to see it there.

Wehn we went towards King’s Palace, where we were to see the traditional dance later on, we met Inga, from Germany. She was on the bus from Pandangbai to Kuta, when we went from Gili. Her second name is Malmo, so she giggled some when I told her where I live. :p
We took a soft drink with her and then went to take a seat at King’s Palace.
At this time (7.30 pm) it was dark outside and they had lit candles in there, which made the atmosphere really cosy.
It felt like going to the theater and soon we where aware it was kind of a theater.
It was about a princess that was kidnapped and then you got to see how her brother and friend saved her. All of this without one word from the dancing actors, they showed with their hands and eyes what was happening in the play.
It was worth every Rupiah (50 000) to experience this

Today we (Sam, Richard, Krille, A-M and me) went to the beach at Dreamland. We got there with rented mopeds. A-M drove and I sat in the back like a piece of jewellery. 🙂
It was about 30 minutes drive there. It’s a beach with a whole bunch of surfers there, which means high waves.
There wasn’t high waves all the time today to. ”It goes in waves” like A-M expressed it. :p
We got t play a bit in the waves though and I was so worn out after that. Sometimes there was double waves so when you looked up after diving trough one wave you got the next one right in your face. half the sea up my nose, which is this days Industrial Country-problem. :p
On the way home we lost the others, so we had to ask our way back to Kuta.
Unfortunately we asked a cop and he took A-Ms international driving-licens and the registration paper for the moped, and asked her to go with him to the police-booth.
He stated that she did something wrong at the crossing and wanted her to pay a fine otherwise she might go to jail…
This is the corruption you only heard about before, because she did nothing wrong. He treathen her with jail to get her scared enough to pay them in cash there.
I went in to try to talk to them, but if we didn’t pay there they would keep her driving license, and we didn’t want that.
We got away with losing 50 000 Rupiah, but got really scared after this. Luckily the rest of the trip back to Kuta went smooth without any more incidents.

We had dinner with Richard and then A-M and Krille went to walk up to vulcano. They will be back at about 3 tomorrow afternoon again.

Now it’s only 2 days left here on Bali, and that is really sad. We are having such a good time here (except for the police-incident today :p) and ther eis so much more to see, but that has to be next time.
The only thing that I am tired at is all the ”hello daaaaaaling, braiiid your haaaaaiiiir?” ”pineapppllllleeee” ”sexyyyy bum, manicure?”, but I can live with that :p

I got info that my dog Oscar is alright and he got a new friend. A cat!
They even sleep close to each other sometimes.
Funny that he chooses a cat instead of one of the female dogs that is there also, but as long as he is happy. 🙂
Hi Lena and thank you for helping me out!

Now I’m gonna upload some more pictures.
Hugs to you all!