Shanghai Pudong airport, 1:05am departure time, hanging in there but tired. Kayl and Carly would end up watching several movies on the 6 1/2 hour flight to Bali. Basil and Ryan tried sleeping and were moderately successful. when i invent a more comfortable airplane neck pillow, i will fly you all to Bali for a party!
kids love pools, hell i love pools, bali's hot - better have a great beach or a pool or you're staying indoors during the middle of the day.
loved eating breakfast on the beach - just a 5 minute walk from the Balangan Sea View Resort - simple, delicious fare, excellent coffee, killer views of the morning surf break and the crazies who surf it. my hat's off to those who've braved it here - Balangan Beach is not for beginners.
O mysterious, powerful, beautiful ocean, i see, hear, smell, and feel you - do you know i am here?
pocked rocky shoreline, only beach we've seen like this - very interesting. basil enjoyed sitting in the holes…until a wave would surprise him, sending him springing up and retreating for cover. kayl got surprised once also, slipped, and lost his glasses in the retreating tumult. fortunately one of us used supreme optimism to go look for them before the next wave and voila! 3 or 4 meters away, inside one of the holes - we wondered if the hole "caught" his glasses, keeping them from being fully claimed by the sea.
you can get a cheap room with a fan and padlock on the door for about $10/night. great vibe.
pretty quiet beach - definitely an advanced surfer's destination. they even have photographers with cannon style telephoto lenses if you want your picture taken while you're battling the break.
could've done without the "taksi" driver's recommendation to take us to a "friend's restaurant" in Jimbaran. "only 15-20 minutes away" turned into 45 minutes as he drove us right back to the Denpasar airport! we could see the planes landing from our table! at first i thought, "hey great, this reminds me of a beach restaurant in Costa Rica Carly and i went to in Montezuma. that place was awesome." however, the prices at Sri Ganga were outrageous and i felt like a total shmuck "right off the boat" tourist who was being taken advantage of. so we had some drinks, and after a few conversations with management and our driver, paid the bill and got the hell out of dodge. back at the "resort" we ordered some fried rice and fried noodles and settled into a satisfying meal. lesson learned.
day 1 and 2, down...
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