Trying Freedom

Back on a boat but thankfully only for about 30 minutes this time and off to Nusa Lembongan, I didn’t know anything about this island and from what I’d seen most people seem to only go to its neighbour called Nusa Penida, which I was also going to see afterwards. After the boat dropped us…

As you can probably tell from the past posts I’ve been moving around quite a lot which meant a lot of single night stays in hotels, I decided that I needed to relax and stay in one place for a couple of nights at least so that’s what I did. I spent the morning at…

So far the expectation had very much been the reality of Canggu, it feels so far detached from somewhere like Ubud which still has a very local feel depending on where you go, but that’s why they call it the cultural centre. When you’re driving in, you’ll almost certainly be stuck in the traffic at…

After a quick stay in Ubud which included my first Balinese style massage, which was incredible by the way although it involved a lot of touching of the feet which was incredibly ticklish, I decided that I was going to give Canggu a chance, as I’d mentioned earlier I’d heard it was just an expat…

We’ll get back to the title shortly… starting the day by getting back onto a fast boat first, this time armed with a travel sickness tablet and sat on the top of the deck with a beer in hand, I had a moment while looking around that this is exactly what I’m supposed to be…

I was woken up the next day at around 5am by my surprise to the sound of something being played very loudly out of speakers which I later found out were dotted all around the island. So, after speaking to some locals it turns out that although Bali is predominantly Hindu, the Gili islands are…