Weekend trip to East Bali

It has been a long time that I haven’t updated this blog, and I would like to continue with a short episode that has just passed and that left a lasting impression and memory on us. It was after months of lots of work with long hours at office (with the exception of a beautiful but also tiring holiday to Germany) I felt the need to go and explore a bit again. I have never been to the far east of Bali beyond Candidasa, and so we decided to spend a weekend that area, sleeping in the fishing village of Amed. A whole Friday on the road, with lot of sights to see, also such ones that we offer to our guests on round trips in the company. Thus, the trip was of educational and of explorative nature at the same time. With a night in a beautiful wooden bungalow and the Saturday morning spent on the black volcanic beach, it felt also like a beach holiday. Waking up in the morning, the smell of the Alang Alang roof in combination with the salty breeze from the ocean and the sound of waves just meters away reminded me my first trip to Thailand as a backpacker. Now, 13 years later, we do such trips as a family. It was just a short trip, and we’ve not been travelling far, but it felt like a great journey. Here some impressions from the road:

Kerta Gosa, the old court in Klungkung

 

the boys playing the Gamelan

visiting a salina at the small fishing village Kusamba along the East Coast, buying sea salt for the kitchen…

…and testing the salt upon our picknick lunch…

…getting ready to continue our road trip

stopping by at Goa Lawah – the bat cave

So nice to be on the road in our little family van … here on a small dirt path through the coconut grove at Jasri Beach...

... arriving at Charly’s Chocolate Factory ...

... at the secluded Jasri Beach, owned by a real escapist who created this little paradise with it’s funny buildings, we bought chocolate bread spread and handmade soaps.

Mahina the Gürk at Jasri Beach

Hang and the boys testing the swing

Visit at the Taman Ujung Water Palace

The coastal road to Amed via Seririt, driving through small villages and past the cliffs, one hour in first and second gear only.

View over one of Amed’s bays with Mount Agung, Mount Abang and Mount Batur in the background.

Our bungalow at The Good Karma ...

... reminded me so much of my first trip to Asia.

Wake up in the morning with Ocean View

East Bali Roadside Views

Tirta Gangga Water Palace ...

... with its fish ponds.

Be with a snake

Visiting the traditional weaving village of Tenganan Pegringsingan, which was one of my research areas during my Master’s thesis. Having met back one of the interviewees who was waiting at the gate when he had heard I am in the village. So nice. Will meet him soon for a trekking from Kastela to Tenganan.

It is almost two years I haven’t updated this blog and more than two years of new life content. Simply because I was too busy. Much has happened and changed in life, and I will update the missing periods to fill the gap between today’s and the last post prior to thos one here, in the next weeks and months. Yeah, I am blogging again!