Ubud (Bali)

Monday 5/11 to Thursday 8/11 - UBUD (Bali)

Goa Gajah: Elephant Cave Temple,

Tampak Siring: Holy Spring Water Temple,

Temen: Coffee Plantation,

Penelokan: view on Mount Batur and Lake Batur,

Besakih: Bali's biggest temple,

Bakut Jambul: Rice Terrace,

Klungkung: Old court of justice of the Klungkung kingdom.

Lost all of the pictures I took, as I lost my father's camera.
Awaiting those of Ksenia now...

Visit to Ubud's Police station.  No camera found...

Changed my hotel to a better place (for wifi and yoga classes),

with a balcony view on the rice fields and on private Hindu temples.

Breakfast is served on the balcony.

The hotel entrance.

The Yoga classroom of the hotel.

Pura Tirta Empul Temple.

Revisit of the temple, 20km Northeast of Umbud.  Holy spring, discovered in 962 and believed to have magical powers.

Decent dress = wearing a sarong.

Making my first prayer, decently dressed.

And a second prayer, and so on.

While skipping some of them for obvious reasons.

Donation please!

After the temple, you must walk an alley with hundreds of souvenir stalls.

In this one I bought a 25 liters jerrycan to transport the Holy Water home (lol)

Carved cocunut wood, 20kRp, about 1.50€

Nice kites.

Gunung Kawi.

One of Bali's oldest and largest ancient monuments: ten rock cut memorials, in the bottom of a lush green river valley.

Rice fields.

Indiana Jones' environment.

Goa Gajah.

Revisit of the Elephant Cave temple.

The Elephant Cave.

Ubud.

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Market place.

The Monkey Forest

Agrandir le plan




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Bira

Thursday 1/11 to Monday 5/11 - BIRA (Sulawesi).

Diving.
Bira Beach

Endless beaches.

Goats climbing a ladder (not a joke, I've seen it)!

Children watching the sunset.

Sunset.

Bira Divers

Chris' briefing at Bira Divers dive center.

www.biradivers.com

Face to face rendez-vous with the sharks guaranteed.

Made six excellent dives with them, spread over three days.

Faced some sharks, turtles, and a lot of colorful fishes, including Napoleon.

The coral however is in poor condition: dynamite fishing, chemical pollution...

In excellent company.

And with time between the dives for a nice lunch and more fun.

YES, all right!

Here for instance our boat awaiting us,

while we are abusing from Bintangs on a small island (Liukang Loe).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bintang_Beer

Tanaberu (25km from Bira).

Shipyards.

Pete-pete (shared taxi).

Old Dutch colonial houses.

Obtained a free guided tour.

And found a local "teamwork" job too (Tanaberu).

Nice handicraft souvenirs!

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