Despite the Green Day concert, which in my opinion was quite lame during the last two weeks nothing really important happend in Singapore. I spent 14 hours with playing Chinese Poker, went to the Indian gambling in Little India one Sunday, but that's it.

Singapore - Green Day

But the last weekend was really amazing. I went with Nadine on thursday evening to Bali. The first night we slept quite next to the airport in Sanua in a nice hotel with straw tiled cottages. As we didn't want to have an Indonisian driver arround all the time we finally decided to rent a car and drive it by ourselves. First they wanted us to give a very old and crapy Suzuki Jeep with nearly no tires anymore. But as we thought, some tires would be nice at least, they offered us a really huge car called "Toyota Kijang Innova". We took it.
I told the renter that I didn't have a International Licence, but he told us, in case we should just offer the police 50US and we will be fine. (Fortunately we didn't get into any situation where we were forced to grease someones hand).

So we went along the south-east coast towards Amlapura, stopped at some temples and black beaches to turn after that into the heartland to finally reach after hours on narrow winding streets, passing by some rice terraces, really poor villages and a great landscape, a village called Kedisan at Lake Batur. We spent our night there in a really basic hotel with not very clean towels and linen. But we didn't stay that long in bed anyhow because the next morning we startet at 3.30am to climb Mount Batur in order to enjoy the sunrise from there.

It was a really great tour of in summary 3hours walking. We stopped at a mountain shelter to enjoy the sunrise from there and the guide - that cost ten times the price they wrote in Lonely Planet - cooked some eggs and banana toast for us. After the sunrise, we went further to the mountain top to have a great view of the whole caldera with Laka Batur in the middle.

After we came back and enjoyed a second breakfast at the hotel we drove back towards southern Bali to spend our rest of the day and the night in Ubud, the major city for arts and handycraft in Bali. There we had a look at all the tiny shops and in the evening saw one of the typical Bali dance performances, called "Legong". The dance was really nice but the music after a while kind of annoying :-) The hotel there was great, situatet at the slopes of a rainforest covered canyon in "original" Bali-style.

The last day we went to the southern peninsula to spend our time at a small and nearly empty beach and enjoyed the sand, the waves and the surfer's feats.

In summary it was again a really great weekend. Though the people are sometimes kind of annoying. They are trying all the time to sell you there stuff, there service, there skooter, ... But I think it is really worth a travel!

Singapore - Weekend in Bali