Nothing to report

I'm sorry for being such a lazy blogwriter but it somehow fits the Balinesian life really well. Except for the traffic and the tourist hotspot Kuta everything is really relaxed and laid back over here. Tomorrow university starts for real but I'd actually rather just keep on doing nothing. One good thing about university though is that we will have our first excursion this weekend which will take us to the East of Bali to a diving school to learn about their marketing strategy... and of course this excursion includes some diving as well. I definitely expect that to be awesome.

I will probably post a little more stuff and also some new pics as soon as we get internet back at our place. Right now I always have to go to a cafe down the street to go online and that is kinda annoying.

No more searching

Finally I find the time to update this blog. The last days have been somewhat busy and the internet situation here is not the best. There are plenty of internet cafes around here but I feel a little lazy about going there all the time. The Villa next to ours has an open WiFi network so if we sit in our garage we can acutally use theirs but it’s not really fast enough for more than emails.

I am not in the mood of writing long texts now so just a few pictures:

The entrance and kitchen of one of our two 3 bedroom villas.

Our Pool with the fake jacuzzi. You can sit in it but there are no bubbles...

Toilet and open air shower... sweet.

The preferred mode of transportation around here. Traffic is frantic and there are basically no road rules but once you're flowing in it with the scooter it's actually not that bad. I wouldnt want to drive a car here though. We took our scooters for a ride to the university campus yesterday which is supposed to be only 15 minutes from here... we needed more than an hour and countless stops to ask for the way. Afterwards we drove to the Southern tip of the island to a temple called Uluwatu.

The temple sits on top of these cliffs offering some great views.

Posing on the edge of a 100m cliff...

To enter the temple you have to wear long pants or you will get a sarong to cover your knees. Steffen got lucky on color selection here. Check out the monkey in the background too. The monkeys were pretty smart, they stole stuff from tourists and only gave it back in exchange for some food...


For sunset we drove down to Uluwatu surfer beach. You have to climb down a long flight of stairs to get to a cave filled with white sand and then you can climb back up onto one of the rocks to get this view. This is also one of the prime surf spots on the island...

... so there was a zoo of surfers out catching some really great waves. Nothing for beginners though. I promised myself I will surf this wave before leaving Bali but I definitely need a lot of practice before doing that.

I brought my clothes to the laundry service yesterday and got it back all fresh, ironed and folded today. Cost me 21.000 Rupiah (1,47€).

They put small handwritten tags on each item I handed in. You can see that labor is very very cheap here. Every store has at least twice as many people working there as a store of the same kind in Germany would have. Yesterday we talked to a security guard at the university and he told us that he earns about €70 a month... crazy!

So much for today. Will go for breakfast/lunch now and then to the beach to hit the waves.