Our flight back to Bali was quick, smooth and smoking free!
We headed to the sleepy tourist town of Sanur where we walked the long beach boardwalk and sat for several hours people watching as it was a Sunday and locals were out with their families. We had a great streak of luck and stumbled upon a Sunday food market that served up a great lunch and we discovered the joys of Indonesian sweets most involving some kind of mixture of coconut, rice and palm sugar.
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| Apparently fishing here is a dangerous sport... |
From Sanur we made the slow and windy trip to the mountain town of Munduk.
Munduk is situated high up on a mountain top with views one way over the rice paddies and the ocean to the other.
There are only a couple hotels and just a scattering of tourists and we enjoyed experiencing the town that survives mainly on its farming of things such as rice, cloves and fruit.
We visited a great waterfall down a slippery path and on our second day hired a guide who navigated us through the rice paddies and hundreds of little paths to a tree that reminded us both of the Home Tree from Avatar, it was over 700 years old and families used to live in it.
It never fails that when Colin and I are huffing and puffing, hunched over, sweat getting into our eyes every time we blink, the local guides just walk along as if they’re just out for a leisurely stroll and almost board with our slow pace, our apologies to the board hiking guides around the world.
We really enjoyed the quietness of Munduk and its refreshing cool mountain air.
Seeing as we have just over a week left in Indonesia we decided to start making our way to Java.
We left quiet Munduck and spent the next 13hrs enroute to Bromo National Park.
Our travels included a car, a ferry (that traveled the first half of the trip at 4km/hr and must have thought that was way too fast as we slowed to a good 1km/hr for the second half) a bus and a mini bus.
While our trip was long we met lots of fun locals, mainly those our age who wanted to know all about our travels and gave us helpful advice and tips for travel.
We arrived pretty tired at Bromo at 9pm and the got up at 3am in the morning to catch the sunrise over the volcanoes around.
Only one slight problem, clouds and therefore no sunrise, or at least not a very spectacular one, we did however have a great hike and just before we boarded our little bus back to town the skies cleared and we had a fabulous view of the crater within an even larger carter that is Bromo.
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| Always a sign of a good hike |
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| noodles!!!!!!! |
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| Our view at Sunrise |
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| It got a little better |
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| Bromo |
Our flight back to Bali was quick, smooth and smoking free! We headed to the sleepy tourist town of Sanur where we walked the long beach boardwalk and sat for several hours people watching as it was a Sunday and locals were out with their families. We had a great streak of luck and stumbled upon a Sunday food market that served up a great lunch and we discovered the joys of Indonesian sweets most involving some kind of mixture of coconut, rice and palm sugar. 
From Sanur we made the slow and windy trip to the mountain town of Munduk. Munduk is situated high up on a mountain top with views one way over the rice paddies and the ocean to the other. There are only a couple hotels and just a scattering of tourists and we enjoyed experiencing the town that survives mainly on its farming of things such as rice, cloves and fruit. We visited a great waterfall down a slippery path and on our second day hired a guide who navigated us through the rice paddies and hundreds of little paths to a tree that reminded us both of the Home Tree from Avatar, it was over 700 years old and families used to live in it. It never fails that when Colin and I are huffing and puffing, hunched over, sweat getting into our eyes every time we blink, the local guides just walk along as if they’re just out for a leisurely stroll and almost board with our slow pace, our apologies to the board hiking guides around the world. We really enjoyed the quietness of Munduk and its refreshing cool mountain air. 
Seeing as we have just over a week left in Indonesia we decided to start making our way to Java. We left quiet Munduck and spent the next 13hrs enroute to Bromo National Park. Our travels included a car, a ferry (that traveled the first half of the trip at 4km/hr and must have thought that was way too fast as we slowed to a good 1km/hr for the second half) a bus and a mini bus. While our trip was long we met lots of fun locals, mainly those our age who wanted to know all about our travels and gave us helpful advice and tips for travel. We arrived pretty tired at Bromo at 9pm and the got up at 3am in the morning to catch the sunrise over the volcanoes around. Only one slight problem, clouds and therefore no sunrise, or at least not a very spectacular one, we did however have a great hike and just before we boarded our little bus back to town the skies cleared and we had a fabulous view of the crater within an even larger carter that is Bromo.
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