3/17: Back in Bali

Okay, so I am not quite roughing it anymore. I thought before I arrived in Bali, that I would splurge for my last two days in Indonesia (my visa expires on the 19th, when I fly to Malaysia), and get a guest house with a swimming pool. Well, it turns out that for the same price as I was paying before (about $11 a day), I found this place - beautiful swimming pool, beautiful room among a beautiful garden, even a beautiful bathroom (western toilet and hot water for the first time in three weeks).

View of my porch

My view from my porch

Here is how my day went. I got up at 5AM, and caught a motorcycle taxi to the airport (50 cents). The plane was almost on time. I arrived in Bali at around 10AM. Found a motorcycle taxi to drive me an hour to Ubud ($7). By 11:30AM I was drinking sweet, Balinese coffee on my porch. I went for a swim, then a bit of a walk to my favorite gado gado in Indonesia (The name if the restaurant, or maybe the name of the owner, is Mr Chicken), and it was so worth the walk. Then I walked back to my guest house, went for a swim, spent an hour at an internet cafe trying to catch up on my blog, went back to the guest house, swam again, read my book, swam again, did my wash, and then walked up to the market to buy a kilo (2.2 pounds) of mangosteens, which are sooo good! Then back to the internet cafe to get caught up on my blog. (While walking to the internet cafe, I saw a motorcycle with 4 westerners on it. I am used to seeing 4, or even sometimes 5 Asians on it, but not westerners.) That's it for today.