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I'm still fretting and faffing. When will I relax? I'm driving myself crazy with worry that I'm out of my depth over here, not planning my travelling well enough or watching my budget closely enough....
Anyway, I jumped on the shuttle bus upto Ubud to escape the mad-touristyness of Kuta and am settled in a nice-ish hostel (losman), "Brata 2". Quite why I've been given a double bed and a single I don't know, but for 3pounds per night I shouldn't complain.
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Ricklivesey2006-08-31 11:07:20
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I'm still fretting and faffing. When will I relax? I'm driving myself crazy with worry that I'm out of my depth over here, not planning my travelling well enough or watching my budget closely enough....
Anyway, I jumped on the shuttle bus upto Ubud to escape the mad-touristyness of Kuta and am settled in a nice-ish hostel (losman), "Brata 2". Quite why I've been given a double bed and a single I don't know, but for 3pounds per night I shouldn't complain.
That's another thing - the money here is driving me up the wall! I can't get my head around the currency at all and every time I go to pay for something I spill out a wad of notes from my wallet - the combined total of which is never enough (and we're talking thousands here!).
Managed to post home a kilo of books, (Lonely Planet really should publish a lightweight Oz and Nz guide), but I still need to lighten my bag if I'm to make travelling any easier. Thinking about ditching my sleeping bag and rollmat, but I'm such a hoarder it's hard!
After wandering the gallery-infested streets for hours I managed to get directions off a lovely gay couple to a local walk - (it's odd, I expected it to be very quiet on the scene, but the Pink Pound, or rather Pink Rupiah is definately flowing here). Some 45mins and 50 locals later I found the track and had a good few hours wander: "Campuan Ridge Walk" wound up a steep, narrow hill with rivers either side and offered beautiful views of the layered rice terraces. The route is oddly dotted with silversmiths and yet more galleries exhibiting local artists' work, completely incongruous to the junglesque trail. I put the pictures on the previous blog and it's not easy to transfer them here.
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I've still not sorted out what I'm doing, although I would like to get to two temples west of Ubud:
Pura Tanah Lot
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See photographs from:
Indonesia Gallery
