Day 5 in Bali - Eat - Prey -Blog

5th day on Bali. After a slow start we finally managed to drag our bones out of what Lourd now refers to as the 'Hacienda'. Don't get us wrong - the villa is still lovely and everything is just fine. But when you travel a lot (and we do), you do start to take a biassed view on things. But more after the holidays in my debriefing and rant. Suffice it to say that Europe is not that bad either...

So we went to Padand Pandang beach - as made famous by Eat-Prey-Love. I have not seen the move so I have no clue on how the beach ties into the movie. But as it is a small beach it must have had a minor role. Or it is the same story as James Bond Beach in Thailand, which is a small strip of Krabi coast. Nice beach though, t too many hawkers and some decent (yet expensive) food stalls. Plus the person running our food joint needed a personality transplant. She must have been one of the few people around here not able to smile. At all.

Afterwards I set off to the temples of Uluwatur (Lourd and Max were not motivated). Nice. Bali as you expect it from the postcards. Usual apartheid going on with the entrance prices - Locals pay half. Imagine the uproar if in Europe we would apply this too. Here everyone is cool with it....

Anyway nice temple, nice sunset nice scenery. And once again the travel blogs were wrong. The monkeys wer tame. See for yourself. What you DO want to do when you get here is leave early, as after sunset is done, all the hire cars set of in one HUGE traffic jam. So get a car, cause a car will get you far. And do not listen to travel blogs who tell you that driving here is lethal. It isnt't.

One thing I found mad though is that I saw the same kind of architecture and design back in Angkor Wat. Freaky - when you think that there is about 700 years between those temples. But for a moment I thought I was back in Cambodia (no - not quoting Kim Wild here, even though the whole trip has been one trip down memory lane of songs of the 80ies.

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