On Sunday I hired Wayan, the driver, to tour me around some bits of Bali. Specifically I wanted to see a non-touristy beach, a lovely waterfall, and some temples. Wayan suggested Bias Tugel. I looked it up and it looked perfect, relatively small and secluded without all the hustle and hype of the popular resort areas like Kuta and Seminyak. It’s about an hour east of Ubud, and I was a little nervous to be going ANY closer to Mount Agung aka the active volcano that almost made me cancel my trip. But it’s still a healthy distance from the…
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Has it really been just three days? Travel has that effect where every day stretches into new dimensions. With no routine to speak of, your sense of a “day” loses its familiar frame of reference, and you’re left baffled by how much or how little time you somehow have left on the clock. On Thursday morning I went for a big long walk away from the buzz of my area of Ubud. I went up the Penestanan stone stairs and followed the road through quiet villas and houses and jungle, explored the little village of Penestanan, had a bite to…
I did it, I did it, I did it. I made it to Bali! It was a surprisingly good flight for being 22+ hours of travel. Got a respectable amount of sleep on the 12-hours Vancouver-Taipei leg (pro tip: the Taipei airport has free massage chairs, if you get a token from the information desk) and the 5-hour hop down to Denpasar felt like a minor jaunt in comparison. EVA Air seems like a pretty civilized airline. I eventually found my driver in a swarm of drivers holding up names, and on the drive from Denpasar to Ubud (another hour…
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