Back in Bali, I stay in Ubud for two days. Following a recommendation, my bus driver drops me off at a place called "Dewi Ayu" at Monkey Forest Road. Friends from back home stay in Ubud for a few days as well. I hired a driver to meet them, but had to walk a short distance anyway, because the motorbike run out of gasoline. The driver bought gasoline at the next corner - one PET-bottle of 1.5 liter. Lucky I could manage to find them in a hotel. The next...

Gili Islands - three small islands northwest of Lombok. By fast boat, only two or three hours away from Bali Kuta area, depending on the weather conditions. A heavy sea made the journey quite bumpy on the day I was on the boat to Gili Trawangan.The afternoon sun is burning and I have to walk half around the island with my backpack to find a place to stay for a reasonable price. It became very touristic here in the last years, there are even bungalows with AC and ...

Bali, my next destination is just about a two hours flight from Singapore. It is close to midnight when I get out of Denpasar airport to find a taxi. Even though we agreed on half of the price for driving me to Kuta, I guess it was still way too much. That is how you pay for your first lesson, "getting in touch with another country"...lesson learned: always bargain, bargain ;) The place I stayed in Kuta wasnt really too fantastic, but I was lucky to fi...