Bali – Day 13


Today we did our last trip and did a tour around the eastern part of bali.

We started with the monkey forrest and the respective temple.

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Next we went to a duo of an old hindu and an old—but destroyed— buddhistic temple.

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Then we visited the old court hall in klungkung.

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Afterwards we went to Pelinggih Meru temple. One of the biggest hindu temple in the world and the most important one on bali. Unfortunately weather was not the best…

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Finally, we watched a really beautiful sunset in kuta.

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That’s it… Tomorrow we are gonna relax and then fly home in the late afternoon. Cu soon.

Bali – Day 12

Bali – Day 12


Today we did a trip to east central bali.

We started with a dance performance showing the fight between good an evil and how good always wins

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Afterwards we went to a beautiful waterfall in the middle of the jungle

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Later I tried some Luwak coffee. You know, that expensive coffee made of coffee beans eaten and digested by animals. These little buggers make it…

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Next we went to one of the most active volcanos on Bali. Sadly the weather wasn’t the best…

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… and to the market in Ubud. No as interesting as the in yogyakarta, but not bad either.

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Finally, we visited one of the local houses, and saw how balinese people lived or even live.

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Bali – Day 11

Bali – Day 11


Today we took a day off ;). Besides staying at the pool we did a nice walk to jimbaran and along the beach and had dinner in the sunset.

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Some ogo gog’s survived nyepi …

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A man cleaning his game cock (though officially forbidden still a famous game in bali…)

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Sunset at the beach with some kids playing football

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Simply amazing, isn’t?

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Bali / Java – Day 10


Today we went to Merapi volcano, one of the most active volcanos in Indonesia and the world (last eruptions 2010 and 2006). Here we visited the region most destroyed by the last eruption

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After the volcano tour we went to the historic market close to our hotel. Very interesting and nice to see though only few tourists find there way here. So, again tourists are the main attraction, especially if they are white and tall ;), but everybody is very kind.

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Finally, we went to the local Zoo to see some Komodo Dragon while we are in vicinity

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Now we’re flying back to Bali…

Bali / Java – Day 9

Bali / Java – Day 9


Today we had to get up really early (like 3:30 am) to drive to Brombodur temple for sunrise but it was well worth it…

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Beautiful, isn’t it?

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Another smaller temple nearby brombodur temple.

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Sultans palace in yogyakarta

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Sultan’s old water palace (i.e., bathing house), with one pool for the kids, one for the wives an mistresses and one for the sultan 😉

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An old underground mosque nearby

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Birds market in yogya

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Visiting a Batic factory (no we didn’t buy anything…)

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On the way to our restaurant of the day we did quite a detour through some not so touristic parts of the city. Here the tourist are the actual attraction ;), but everybody is very kind!

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