Indonesia

Of ghosts and demons

January 9, 2010

I met a lovely Calgarian couple (Rita and Ken) yesterday on my cycle tour and like so many other Canadians I’ve met on my travels, they’ve done enough miles to circumvent the globe.  It’s always nice to talk to other travelers about traveling.  Usually they’ve learned the same tips and tricks and have garnered insight […]






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Back from the back villages

January 8, 2010

It’s nearly 5pm and I’m ready to go to bed!  =)  I did a cycling excursion today, from the top of Gunung Batur volcano aaaallllll the way down through the back villages and into Ubud.  Though I don’t think I could bike my way through Laos for 3 weeks straight like some people I know, […]






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Oh romance and oooboood and jungle rain showers

January 7, 2010

At around noon today, it started to pour jungle rain here.  And pour it did for about 1.5 hours straight.  The skies haven’t really recovered since.  The village is damp and humid and I feel like we’re in a moist bio dome that smells of banana leaves and incense. To shelter from the storm, I […]






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Ubud

January 7, 2010

Don’t you love how that sounds?!  OOOOBOOOOD! I arrived last night at midnight and didn’t get to the hotel until about 1 AM.  The place I’m staying at provides transfer service from Denpasar into Ubud (which takes about an hour), and from the minute I landed, I knew I was going to love this place. […]






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