Hi - we've made it to Ubud! we're at the Bali Spirit hotel....ahhh....it is built cascading down a steep slope to the Wos River so it is lush and green and tropical. Very different from Tulamben where we were on the beach and woke up each morning to the sunrise which we watched from our bed!
We dove and dove in Tulamben and neighboring Amed, both from the shore and from boats, we saw the Liberty wreck twice, and also, we went to see the Besakih temple about 1000m up the side of a 3000m volcano (Gunung Agung), and a huge, beautiful lake at the base of another large volcano (Gunung Batur), and had a few great dinners in the funny town of Tulamben (about 2 blocks long and largely deserted...we got great attention and service from everybody!). The roads here are hysterical and don't have a lot of traffic, but what traffic there is is dangerously close to each other, scooters seamlessly (and amazingly unscathed) zipping around moving cars, around parked cars, around people, children, dogs and chickens walking down the road...just hysterical. And people carry everything you can imagine on their scooters! construction supplies, huge bags of rice, motor oil, gas cans, sticks, full families of 4!! it's great. I can't watch most of the time so I close my eyes and Brent tells me when there is a pretty mountain, beautiful temple, or lush rice field, and I look at those. :-) it's terrifying, but they all seem to get along just fine driving like that.
We dove and dove in Tulamben and neighboring Amed, both from the shore and from boats, we saw the Liberty wreck twice, and also, we went to see the Besakih temple about 1000m up the side of a 3000m volcano (Gunung Agung), and a huge, beautiful lake at the base of another large volcano (Gunung Batur), and had a few great dinners in the funny town of Tulamben (about 2 blocks long and largely deserted...we got great attention and service from everybody!). The roads here are hysterical and don't have a lot of traffic, but what traffic there is is dangerously close to each other, scooters seamlessly (and amazingly unscathed) zipping around moving cars, around parked cars, around people, children, dogs and chickens walking down the road...just hysterical. And people carry everything you can imagine on their scooters! construction supplies, huge bags of rice, motor oil, gas cans, sticks, full families of 4!! it's great. I can't watch most of the time so I close my eyes and Brent tells me when there is a pretty mountain, beautiful temple, or lush rice field, and I look at those. :-) it's terrifying, but they all seem to get along just fine driving like that.
We just got to Ubud and found that they missed part of our communication and thought that we weren't coming at all - whoops - but the Tantra suite is still available for the next two nights so we're in. We're just waiting for them to clean it and checking in with the world because this is the first computer we've really seen so far! It's been wonderfully remote, quiet and relaxing so far. I've had so many massages at our spa in Tulamben (including one couple's massage at the pool...ahhh again...) that I actually got sore! haha. what a life. I got a body scrub, body mask, 4 full body massages, head massages, foot reflexology, floral bath...really going crazy!! and loving it. :-)
Last night we took in a very funny, but very cultural shadow puppet play in Ubud. It took place in a small local museum (think BMOCA, Boulderites) and had amazingly loud music and singing to accompany the story of a kingdom being threatened by an evil demon who wanted a human sacrifice. The son of the queen offered himself up for sacrifice, but he was able to fend off the evil demon with his goodness (or, as Brent calls it - bad ass shadow puppet action!) and they all live happily ever after, free forever of the evil demon.
Now, back to the spa for more massages and a walking tour around Ubud to see monkeys, artwork, more singing, and dancing.
Check in here for a few photos if we ever get them uploaded on this slow connection.
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