Bali, Sanur

G'day Mates,

Lets make of 2015 a good and healthy year so first of all I and my husband Fred, wish you all a very happy but most important, a healthy New Year.

Around us, amongst family, friends, acquaintances and neighbours we have been confronted with terrible diseases especially cancer and some will/did survive, others didn't/won't. But let us always try to be optimistic and positive and hope for the miracle to come. At once stage that terrible illness will be beaten and will only be a disease that passes. Lets hope that moment will be coming very soon.

But we also have to keep living so, here we go again! Lets go to Bali;


Well, we are back from Bali and I can tell you, it's quite different then Australia. But not the weather, you can compare that with Queensland in summer and Gee, we had some serious rain too!

We started at Sanur, a lovely place on the beach approx. 30 k's from Denpasar and the airport. The trip with the taxi to our Bed & Breakfast called Tari, was Rp. 150.000 which is approx. $ 15.00.

Our view from our balcony....

I wouldn't dare to stand on this ladder....(have a good look)

 Sanur is very busy but it is not annoying as when you are on the beach, there is a nice path along with little shops and restaurants and no traffic except for some bikes. 

Cheers!

funny boats....

A Merry Christmas, bottle tree!

The Main Street of Sanur is very busy but there you also can find good restaurants and shops! We had a good time in Sanur especially because we had a good home. The Tari family were very nice, good room and a suburb breakfast with lots of fresh fruit.

We arrived on the 12th and the 13 th was our anniversary. Of course we went for a nice lunch on the beach.....

 and at night we had a great meal at Restaurant Costa Rica....

Lovely Balinese food.....

later an Irish coffee at the Irish Restaurant/pub.....

and when we came home, we found this on our table on our balcony!!

OK, lets stop the eating stuff, I'm getting hungry, OK OK, just one more;

In our younger days we have eaten from stalls like this but now we're a little older, you have to be more careful. Nevertheless, round the corner of our B&B there was a market where we have been eating from such stalls the first day, there were mostly only locals and we had a very tasteful meal, very spicy too but we like that, and we didn't get sick at all!!

just some pictures of Sanur;

A wall of coral.....

(I hope they got it off the beach and didn't take it out of the sea)

here you can see the path along the beach....

little shops......

two fishermen.....

Father Tari; Elly, is also a tour guide and his little business is named "Bali secret tour". Unfortunately he hasn't got a website yet otherwise I would have mentioned it. But if you stay at their Bed & Breakfast he will immediately tell you where he can take you for a tour. We also did a tour with him so come with us and enjoy.....

First we drove from Sanur through some little villages and passed Ubud to Tegenungan Village where we visited a beautiful Watersfall...

During the trip we regularly stopped to see some nice, beautiful or strange things, like this tree.

Elly told us that the tree walks. The roots you see hanging down, dig into the ground to become a new tree other parts die and so the tree changes place a bit. It takes of course hundreds of years to see the tree has "walked" a step haha. 

Cruising our way through the country side....

its movie time;

Then we drove to the Temple; Tirtha Empul, which is built around the Holy Geyser of Tampaksiring.

Movie time;

Here in the front you can see the geyser, it was boiling ......

Women in Indonesia put everything on their head, in some of the next Bali stories you can see that they also can carry extreme weights on their heads, its amazing!

Big hey Fred!! It's Jackfruit!

 The jackfruit tree is well suited to tropical lowlands, and its fruit is the largest tree-borne fruit, reaching as much as 80 pounds (36 kg) in weight, 36 inches (90 cm) in length, and 20 inches (50 cm) in diameter.

I liked it!

Right, we are not finished yet with this day tour but this story will be too long so I finish it now.  Next time we go further and then you will learn all about some very special coffee!!

See you then!

Cheers!