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Bali / Java – Day 9

By Andreas | March 12, 2013 - 10:20 |March 20, 2013 Vacations

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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…

Beautiful, isn’t it?

Another smaller temple nearby brombodur temple.

Sultans palace in yogyakarta

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 😉

An old underground mosque nearby

Birds market in yogya

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

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!

Bali / Java – Day 8

By Andreas | March 11, 2013 - 10:05 |March 20, 2013 Vacations

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

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

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

Yogakarta

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

People having dinner…

Bali – Day 7

By Andreas | March 10, 2013 - 10:55 |March 20, 2013 Vacations

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

At butterfly park. This butterfly has about 20cm.

Cocoons

Rice terraces in central bali

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

Bratan temple at bratan lake

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

Sunset at Tanah Lot temple. Very beautiful an romatic!

Tomorrow morning we are going to fly to Java.

Bali – Day 6

By Andreas | March 9, 2013 - 14:40 |March 20, 2013 Vacations

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Andreas | March 8, 2013 - 14:26 |March 20, 2013 Vacations

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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…