So 5 years later we're about to head off to China and found that the final blog installment of our India trip was never posted.
So here's just a super quick summary: we went to Bali, spent much of the time with a Bulungula friend in Ubud, we traveled round the island on a scooter and did some incredible snorkeling. We also saw some amazing festivals (go checkout the videos at the bottom of this page) and climbed a volcano.
A wonderful month to end a wonderful year :)
So here's just a super quick summary: we went to Bali, spent much of the time with a Bulungula friend in Ubud, we traveled round the island on a scooter and did some incredible snorkeling. We also saw some amazing festivals (go checkout the videos at the bottom of this page) and climbed a volcano.
A wonderful month to end a wonderful year :)
The view from Dale's (our friend) house in Ubud - overlooking the rice paddies.
Water Temple
Rice paddies
Water temple - Balinese temples are much less garish than some of the Indian temples.
Another friend's epic Bamboo house on the Bali coast.
All the streets were adorned with festival decorations - there seems to be a different festival every 2 weeks in Bali.
Crazy Bali decorations!
A particularly crazy festival which involved 2 teams of worshippers fighting to get a bamboo bed-like structure inside their particular temple.
Festival food.
Hot volcanic steaming springs.
Top of the volcano.
Cooking an egg in the scorching volcanic earth.
Gili Islands - no cars, salty showers, snorkeling with turtles, beach music.
Donkey transport around the Gili Islands
Cool, crazy ceremonies.
More crazy ceremonies.
And so ended an epic year. We promised ourselves that we would do a long trip every 5 years, and so it is that in a few days time we will leave for China and Central Asia. We will not be able to blog on this website in China as Blogspot/Blogger is blocked in China. We will post our new blog address on this blog soon.
