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Remember 3 months ago, when I was saying how there should be more services that provide video blogging?  That it should be easier to upload and play back videos in a blog?  At that point, I had already been using www.YouTube.com for 2 months, and was trying out VideoEgg from Typepad. Is it just me, [...]

There was some really good diving in northwest Bali, at Menjangan Island.  It’s where I saw my first shark!  No pictures of it though.  The underwater pictures were taken with a disposable underwater camera, so the quality’s not the best. The boat ride to the dive site. Ras’ fin

Since I’ve got my computer back, I can now post more pictures of my trip in Bali.  These are pictures from Lovina, where Ras and I used as a base for our first dives in Bali. "Lovina is a convienient base for trips around the north coast or the central mountians.  The beaches are made [...]

This is Kuta Beach, Bali during a sunset.  During the day, you wouldn’t see too many Balinese locals around the beach.  Then around 5:00 or 5:30 pm, locals descend upon Kuta Beach in hordes.  There are at least as many locals as there are tourists to watch the sunset.  And what pretty sunsets they were…

The day started out with the Inn?s free breakfast of banana pancakes, fruit salad, and tea.  The banana pancakes at this place were really good ? different than the 10 cent variety found in Thailand.  banana pancake for breakfast Afterwards, we went to the nearby Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary. "This cool and dense swathe of [...]

Tampaksiring is a small town north of Ubud with a large and important temple and the most impressive ancient monument in Bali.  We used the scooter and drove to see this monument ? Gunung Kawi.  On the road there, there are so many workshops and stores selling all kinds of arts and crafts.  Gunung Kawi [...]

From the Lonely Planet: "Perched on the gentle slopes leading up towards the central mountains, Ubud is the other half of Bali ?s tourism duopoly.   Unlike Kuta, however, Ubud maintains it?s identity as the center of ?cultural tourism? on Bali. It?s not surprising that many people come to Ubud for a day or two and [...]

We rented a scooter today and decided to try and go to Tanah Lot.  From the Lonely Planet: "The brilliantly located Pura Tanah Lot is possibly the best known and most photographed temple on Bali.  It’s an obligatory stop on many tours from South Bali, very commercialized, and especially crowded at sunset.  For the Balinese, [...]

We did a lot of walking today – from Kuta to Seminyak, which is the area north of Kuta.  It was a little cloudy today, and the beach in that area didn’t look too impressive.  According to the Lonely Planet, "Seminyak is the most exciting part of South Bali .  It’s the home of the [...]