Indonesia Bali

5 Hours bus ride to reach the ferry port in Java to cross the sea to reach Bali. My previous toughts have always been shattered by tourists and simply too much. But as we reached the north coast of bali our impressions were positively surprised. Everywhere on the road one could see little hindu shriners decorated with flowers to worship the gods. Surrounded by gigantic green mountains the north coast was everything but mediocre. Destination 1 Lovina.
The first exploration tour was with a motorbike. No dont worry mum, I wasnt driving it. Nor was Jan. Here you can cheaply hire drivers to take you from a to b without causing any accidents. A buddist temple was our first destination which was distributed to 3 floors. We had to put on a saron, which is a textile that you bind arround your waist. The last floor was where the big temple was found, which was surrounded by water and sea flowers. Everywhere were lotus trees aromatizing the entire area. Simply fabolous.From there wer went to hot springs in the middle of the jungle were dragons were spitting the water on top of our heads.

Ubud, the apparent cultural highlight of Asia was pretty much a tourist accumulation. But when walking outside of Ubud, the real treasure got discovered. Passing rice field, we got to know a local called Gusti who in the end invited us to his house for some coffee and lead us all the way trough little streets and rice paddies to the Elephant cave and some other local sights.
Another local sight was the monkey forest. Yeah I know. Imagining nothing but a zoo. but truth is around 300 monkeys were running around freely in a national park in ubud. . . and of course they were nothing but fluffy and cute. I got attacked 2 times. THe first time a cute little monkey tought my water bottle was some food and from behind he jumped onto me and attacked me. shock shock i tell you. 20 minutes later an even smaller monkey started haunting my feet, so in the end i started running around in circles around jan, who was laughing his ass of for my monkey friendly appearance.