The tournament was only two days and the rest of the days were just for partying, bungee jumping, spas, surfing and diving for Peter and I.
Ater the tournament and a day after some great parties, we hired a driver and went on a 2.5 hour drive to Tulamben in the northeast of Bali. A couple of our friends Nick and another Peter joined us on our trip. On our way, we saw alot of rice paddy terraces.
My Peter and Nick wanted to chew betelnut so badly, we went on a betelnut hunt. Our driver Nengah got involved which slowed our trip down and I wasn't too happy about because it was taking time away from my dives. Nengah saw some nut trees so we stopped and the 3 of them hiked down in between rice paddies. Nengah ended up climbing the tree while Peter and Nick waited at the bottom of the tree to catch the nuts. I post a picture of that later.
After the nuts, I expressed to everyone on the van that I didn't want anymore stops, I wanted to get to Tulamben already. Nengah drove straight to the Bali Wreck Divers shop because I was so anxious to get in the water in Tulamben, and didn't want to waste another minute of daylight on land. When we arrived, I asked the dive master to get in the water right away and we'll figure out the hotel room later. We suited up immediately and took a 3 minute walk from the dive shop to the beach. Soon, I was in heaven.
The frog fish.
Yes, it was so rich with biodiversity, I wanted to stay there. Peter and I stayed in for about an hour at each dive site. The dive guide had to leave us each time to escort Nick and the other Peter back to shore. On our one night in Tulamben, we met this girl Holly who worked for a nonprofit which she didn't disclose the name of the organization. She was helping residents in Mt. Agung get proper health care. She told us that the Indonesian government had written off the people in Mt. Agung and are considered non-existence. She said it was a very gruesome scene on this mountain. It got us really curious. So when we left Tulamben, we stopped by to take a picture of Mt. Agung, a volcano that last erupted in 1963 and supposedly still active.
After that, we headed out to Ubud. We had no plans of where to stay because Peter says its cool to just find one randomly. Well, Nick knew of a place which is actually called Nick's Hidden Cottages, so we went straight there after the first hotel we went to had no rooms. It was actually pretty nice, I think I'll stay there whenever I go to Ubud.
After we got settled into our lovely hotel, we went for a walk around town.
We went by the soccer field to watch some Balinese kids playing soccer.... they were really good.
We also went for a bite to eat. We found this hidden restaurant, everything seems to be hidden in Ubud. We walked into an art gallery looking for this restaurant. When we found it, we thought it was kinda sketchy since it seem like it was in someone's home. We did sit down and ate a very traditional nasi goreng (see picture), and had some Bintang beer to go with it. The food was definitely amazing.
We met up with Eric and Brian in Ubud. They ended up staying at Nick's Hidden with us, we had dinner, shopped and drove back to together.
After Ubud we went back to the Kuta-Legian-Seminyak area to meet up with our friends for the last day of partying in Bali.
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