Our last day in Bali :(. It's been really beautiful here, very peaceful, great weather, food and people and of course very cheap. We made the most of our last full day yesterday and took a tour of the northern part of the island. We drove to a place where they do traditional Balinese dancing (which you can imagine rich loved) whihc was more like a pantomime really, lots of different costumes and a story to go with it. From there we went to a silver smiths to ...

We're in the forests of Bali surrounded by Monkeys. It's really beautiful up here, we're about an hours drive from Kuta in the middle of the island. We're surrounded by forests and Rice paddy fields and it's so peaceful and relaxing, not that we need much help in that department. We have been exploring our surroundings though, we took a moped out yesterday and today we've been to the monkey forest. There are about 250 monkeys living there and they sit on the path...

We finally made it to Kuta about 1pm saturday to find our hotel did not have the booking - always a good start!! We have STA travel to thank for that one!!! With much wrangling from Rich did they agree to give us a room but not the one we had originally paid for. We weren't too bothered just glad to have a place to stay but when we got up there ( 3 flights stairs + rucksack = not good) it was so nasty we had to come out again!! We made the decision to try somethi...

The Clement's luck strikes again!!! Despite being only 7 days into our intrepid adventure we have already sorted our next holiday. We were the "lucky" winners of a weeks holiday just by being toursits in Bali. Our name was pulled from Immigration and we were one of 12 winners!! All we had to do was go to a neighbouring resort to pick up our "prize". Yeah right I hear you say!! - well we did have to sit through a sales pitch by a travel club guy, (which we di...

Arrived in Bali late on Sunday night, managed to survive the trip from the Airport to our hotel, luck must have been on our side as the Taxi driver didn't care which lane he was in and I think all other vehicles were invisible ( for those who know it was like driving with Max!!). There are about 20 mopeds here for every car and you take your life in your hands crossing the road!! Our hotel is really good, very quiet and clean, good pool and nice staff only prob...