Bali / Java – Day 8

Bali / Java – Day 8


Today we flew to Yogyakarta on Java for a 3 days short trip.

Prambanan temple, one of the biggest Hindu temple in the world

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Here we also watched a Hindu ceremony preparing for nyepi (hindu new year)

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Yogakarta

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Some impressions from Marboro street, the main shopping street in yogya

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People having dinner…

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Bali – Day 7

Bali – Day 7


Today we did a tour to west central bali with our local guide Manfred 😉

At butterfly park. This butterfly has about 20cm.

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Cocoons

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Rice terraces in central bali

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People are preparing their ogo ogo’s for nyepi parade tomorrow.

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Bratan temple at bratan lake

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Tanah Lot temple on a small island. You can only reach it with dry feet during low tide.

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Sunset at Tanah Lot temple. Very beautiful an romatic!

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Tomorrow morning we are going to fly to Java.

Bali – Day 6

Bali – Day 6


On the way to our next dive site at an island near Padang Bai.

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Mantas!!! Wow, wow, wow, simply wow! See for yourself…

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Just imagine, each of them is about 5m wide!!!

While waiting for the next dive we went to a small laguna.

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Our last dive was along a beautiful reef. Probably one of the most beautiful ones we’ve seen on bali.

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So this was our diving trip. Tomorrow we’re gonna make a trip to west central bali and then we are flying to Java for 3 days.

Bali – Day 5

Bali – Day 5


Today we did two more dives at two different locations around Padang Bai. Sadly a large part of the Coral Reef around here has been destroyed by some big waves last autumn (or spring around here). Nevertheless we were able to see some interesting stuff.

I can’t remember their name, but these are really rare, and we did see three of them…

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A blue dotted sting ray.

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This fire fish is nicely posing after some motivation with a little bit of current 😉

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Do you see him?

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Now you do 😉

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Finding Nemo 😉

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Btw. did you see the small crab? If not look again 😉

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No comment 🙂

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After diving we did walk a bit around town and towards the beach we were diving in the morning

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Bali – Day 4

Bali – Day 4


Today we went straight to Amed for our next two dives at two nice steep faces.

Guess what it is…

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… a slug (about 2cm in size)

In comparison look at the size of that thing.

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Can you see it?

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There is a small see horse (about 1cm in size) dead center of the picture.

Our dive spot in Amed.

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After diving, on the way to our next hotel, we did a small detour to an old balinesian water palace. Really nice.

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Sunset in Padagn Bai where our next hotel is.

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When leaving the hotel for a short walk (mainly looking for an ATM) by chance we walked into a strange balinesian ceremony at a temple nearby.

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We were told they are preparing for Nyepi the balinesian New Year, which is going to be next Tuesday while we’re on Java (because no one is allowed to leave his house on this day, not even tourists, so we are escaping to Java).

Two more dives coming up tomorrow (hopefully with turtles and sharks 😉 ).Tthe day after that we are going to head for manta point to dive with some manta rays 🙂