Today I caught a ride with Lisa to Ubud. They were going to see a healer who massages you in a way that makes you glow and looks like you have had the best sex in your life when you come out.... I have not tried it (yet) but obviously I am very curious.....
Unfortunately there is a waiting list of 3 months before you can see him.....;(
I will add some pictures later of the temple like buildings where he is doing his healings......the "masages " he gives high up in a tower overlooking Ubud.
Ubud is great, about an hour inland from Sanur and not as hot as the coast. Lots of things to do and a really artsy atmosphere with lots of funny art galleries, museums and shops. Great restaurants and bars, i´am sitting in one right now using their wifi.
I have left Lisa and her mother in law with the healer at 9 this morning and found myself a little bungalow for 10 euros a night breakfast included. Let´s see if they still glow when i come back on monday or tuesday to the house....;)
Sabtu, 04 Desember 2010
Kamis, 02 Desember 2010
Bike ride to Kuta
Today i biked to Kuta ( Bali´s surf Beach) in 42 degrees celcius....was quite hot ....;). I biked by a Bikram Yoga studio ( = yoga at temperatures above 45 degrees in sauna like rooms) but i think they just have to switch of the airco here and they have Bikram yoga everywhere, they probably invented it here....i was so glad to get there that i parked my bike next to what looked like a little white temple entrance door with a public toilet on the right hand side for easy reference. Jumped in the sea and went for a long walk to watch the surfers and came back to realize that the whole beach front had these "little white temple entrances", there must have been 200 of them and yesssss almost all with public toilets to their right. Well to make a long story short , i became the joke of the Balinese vendors who helped me look 2 hours for my bike....up and down the beach .....they showed up with all kind of bikes but i had to disappoint them...mine was grey with a basket and a bunch of flowers in an offering plate in the basket ......a gift from one of the maids that morning...but i found it next to little white temple entrance number 286.....
I forgot my camera otherwise i would have taken pictures of a few beautiful statues i have seen in an art gallery, a wonderful little house of teak which i would love to put in the garden of the masia, an amazing temple I passed where they doing a ceremony and some amazingly fat australians who were getting tatoos done at their bellies at the beach.....they probably did not have any intention ever losing weight as these tatoos would probably look quite horrible after they would lose 50 kilos.....anyway this couple looked pretty happy with their roses and dolfins on their pot bellies....so let them enjoy it.
Came home had a shower and went to the beach for my daily massage by Nauama ( i think that is her name, will ask again tomorrow). She is a little old lady with hands of iron and a beautiful smile. She is very happy i come to her everyday her daughter confirmed me, now the family has a bit more money these days.....the massage costs 40.000 roepies which is 4 euro for 1,5 hour in heaven.....even i can afford that every day...;) , the daughter will do my finger nails for free tomorrow as she is so happy i give here mum some work.
Nauama was sad today though and worried as her daughter went to the village because her husband was getting his teeth cut of ( appearently a hindu tradition that you do when you are around 25 or 30).....she did it herself as well but they have grown a bit again. She assured me almost every Hindu in Bali does it ( I will look more at peoples teeth from now on) and ask someone who knows more about these things , why the hell you would want to cut off your teeth at age 25.....
My Indian friends (one of them is the principal of a local school) where not there today but i will accept their invitation to come to the school tomorrow and will try to find it on my bike. I also promised to help Martin with his letter though....busy busy here ....and you guys thought i was relaxing here....;)?????
On my way back i went to Hardy´s the biggest local supermarket in town and gazed again at all the great spices, fruits and things they sell there. Mangos for 40 cents a kilo.....!!! papaya, pineapple, ripe bananas...and ginger tea, bali coffee, tofu, tempe, satay sauce and all the "boemboes" i miss so much in Spain....and incense for 17 cents a kilo
Tonight i will force myself to go to bed early to finally get out of the stupid jetlag.....last night i went to bed at 4 am because i fell asleep from 5 pm untill 9 pm and then was fresh awake and could not sleep all night. I misses a trip with Lisa to Denpassar this morning as a result of it....
So off to bed now and hopefully i will wake up early so i can go and do yoga at the little temple on the beach at 6 am at sunrise..... another wonderful day in Bali......;)
I forgot my camera otherwise i would have taken pictures of a few beautiful statues i have seen in an art gallery, a wonderful little house of teak which i would love to put in the garden of the masia, an amazing temple I passed where they doing a ceremony and some amazingly fat australians who were getting tatoos done at their bellies at the beach.....they probably did not have any intention ever losing weight as these tatoos would probably look quite horrible after they would lose 50 kilos.....anyway this couple looked pretty happy with their roses and dolfins on their pot bellies....so let them enjoy it.
Came home had a shower and went to the beach for my daily massage by Nauama ( i think that is her name, will ask again tomorrow). She is a little old lady with hands of iron and a beautiful smile. She is very happy i come to her everyday her daughter confirmed me, now the family has a bit more money these days.....the massage costs 40.000 roepies which is 4 euro for 1,5 hour in heaven.....even i can afford that every day...;) , the daughter will do my finger nails for free tomorrow as she is so happy i give here mum some work.
Nauama was sad today though and worried as her daughter went to the village because her husband was getting his teeth cut of ( appearently a hindu tradition that you do when you are around 25 or 30).....she did it herself as well but they have grown a bit again. She assured me almost every Hindu in Bali does it ( I will look more at peoples teeth from now on) and ask someone who knows more about these things , why the hell you would want to cut off your teeth at age 25.....
My Indian friends (one of them is the principal of a local school) where not there today but i will accept their invitation to come to the school tomorrow and will try to find it on my bike. I also promised to help Martin with his letter though....busy busy here ....and you guys thought i was relaxing here....;)?????
On my way back i went to Hardy´s the biggest local supermarket in town and gazed again at all the great spices, fruits and things they sell there. Mangos for 40 cents a kilo.....!!! papaya, pineapple, ripe bananas...and ginger tea, bali coffee, tofu, tempe, satay sauce and all the "boemboes" i miss so much in Spain....and incense for 17 cents a kilo
Tonight i will force myself to go to bed early to finally get out of the stupid jetlag.....last night i went to bed at 4 am because i fell asleep from 5 pm untill 9 pm and then was fresh awake and could not sleep all night. I misses a trip with Lisa to Denpassar this morning as a result of it....
So off to bed now and hopefully i will wake up early so i can go and do yoga at the little temple on the beach at 6 am at sunrise..... another wonderful day in Bali......;)
Rabu, 01 Desember 2010
martin .....one of the odd birds of paradise
This is Martin the brother in law of a friend of mine in Barcelona. I knew he lived here but ran into him by coincidence here at the beach. Martin makes incredibly beautiful drawings on toilet paper and napkins and has hundreds, maybe thousands of them. I will ask him if i can photograph a few of his pieces of art tomorrow because i think he should find someone who can help him to set up an exhibition. His drawings are amazing and intrigue me. I bought him a sketch book and some drawing pens and he promised to make me one.
He reminds me of Joris, my ex on a bad hair day.....;)
He reminds me of Joris, my ex on a bad hair day.....;)
Senin, 29 November 2010
Massage!!!!!!
I just had a 2 hour massage by the person that comes here to the house a few times a week to give a massage to the owner and the other people living here. It was the best massage I ever had in my life! Muscles i did not even know i had were massaged and i have the feeling i had a total workout. Not an inch of my body was missed ...well actually a couple of inches were obviously not touched .....;), the rest of my body was squeezed, moved, folded, stretched, and turned. The masseur learned it from his mother in Java. What a great gift and tradition to pass on from parents to children. It reminded me of the 70 plus years old aunties of my first boyfriend who was half Indonesian who were always massaging us after we had sateh, rendang, gado gado and rice there at the big table in the livingroom. Now i am going to the beach before the monsoons come in at the end of the afternoon.
Minggu, 28 November 2010
Photos from my weekend trip to Bedugul
I just got back from my weekend trip to Bedugul (http://www.balistarisland.com/Bali-Interesting-Place/Bedugul-Garden-Yard.htm) about 2 hours north from Sanur where i am staying now. Here are some pictures of the views i had when i woke up this morning:
This was the botanical garden on Saturday:
My toe nails after a 1,5 hour Balinese pedicure including tiny flowers.......
Me with my host here, Lisa.
Later on i will figure out how to upload the videos i took of the people meditating and afterwards walking 3 meters on fire.....without any sign of burns on their feet.....it looked so easy i almost wanted to try it!
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| Lisa and her kids |
This was the botanical garden on Saturday:
My toe nails after a 1,5 hour Balinese pedicure including tiny flowers.......
Me with my host here, Lisa.
Later on i will figure out how to upload the videos i took of the people meditating and afterwards walking 3 meters on fire.....without any sign of burns on their feet.....it looked so easy i almost wanted to try it!
Jumat, 26 November 2010
A LIFE OF LEISURE......
Despite my plans to wake up early today and try to get into Bali time , i woke up at 1.30 pm today.....so half a day past before i even saw the daylight....and i need to be fit and ready to go tomorrow morning at 7 to go to Bali treetops and botanical gardens with Lisa some friends and their kids. This is just a couple of hours after my regular bedtime or no falling asleep time here.....and my body will probably think it will be an afternoon nap when i go to bed at 9pm.
I had a very relaxing day today: went to the beach and had another 1,5 hour full body Balinese massage with my new Balinese friend Nawang, after which i had a fresh fruit juice, a manicure and a pedicure by her daughter and a Gado Gado (vegetable dish with sate sauce).
Met a very nice english school teacher who used to be an IT consultant before he moved to Bali one year ago. So we chatted about Baan, ERP systems and our past lives in the real world but by the time the sun set and the cafes on the beach lit their candles, concluded teaching english and running a casa rural provide for a much richer life style then running the rat race....;)
Came home to find my house all cleaned up , with fresh flowers everywhere from Putu ( no, not Puta...!!) the cleaning lady. In the altar in the living room she every day puts baskets with donations of food and flowers with a candle and incense for the Gods and spirits around. Maybe that is why i feel so good here......;)
Now i ´am going to put candles and incense all over my Joglo and prepare my bag for my weekend trip with some nice music and will do my yoga and meditation to prepare my body to go to sleep.
Still did not take any pictures but they will come i promise.....
I had a very relaxing day today: went to the beach and had another 1,5 hour full body Balinese massage with my new Balinese friend Nawang, after which i had a fresh fruit juice, a manicure and a pedicure by her daughter and a Gado Gado (vegetable dish with sate sauce).
Met a very nice english school teacher who used to be an IT consultant before he moved to Bali one year ago. So we chatted about Baan, ERP systems and our past lives in the real world but by the time the sun set and the cafes on the beach lit their candles, concluded teaching english and running a casa rural provide for a much richer life style then running the rat race....;)
Came home to find my house all cleaned up , with fresh flowers everywhere from Putu ( no, not Puta...!!) the cleaning lady. In the altar in the living room she every day puts baskets with donations of food and flowers with a candle and incense for the Gods and spirits around. Maybe that is why i feel so good here......;)
Now i ´am going to put candles and incense all over my Joglo and prepare my bag for my weekend trip with some nice music and will do my yoga and meditation to prepare my body to go to sleep.
Still did not take any pictures but they will come i promise.....
Kamis, 25 November 2010
Saturday to Bali Treetops....
WELCOME TO MY TRAVEL BLOG
Instead of writing travel notes in one of my tiny notebooks i decided to write directly in my blog this time.....during my last big trip to this region of the world i had to collect physical snail mail letters "poste restante" at American Express offices. Whether this shows how fast the world is changing or how i am turning into a dinosaur is up to you to decide...;).....
Anyway since i have to be online so once in a while anyway to respond to reservation requests for the summer season 2011, although I do not understand these people that plan their vacations almost a year in advance....some are already reserving for 2012......anyway that is the reason why i am online quite a lot instead of hanging out at Bali´s beaches....
I am here now since Monday evening. Arrived as a total zombie and fell asleep 3 minutes after arriving to the house at 9pm to wake up at 3 am and be totally awake....tried to get back to sleep but impossible because i was starving from hunger and only had a chocolate letter which the people who take care of my house gave me, so I went for a walk around Sanur (http://www.sanur.com) the town i stay in and had breakfast at a local market with a women with a bicycle and nasi goreng with all kind of little dishes to chose from. The locals seemed to stop at her stand as well to pick up a newspaper full of nasi to either take home or eat on the spot in the street with your hands ( i did the last since i was starving..;). I had to pay 5000 roepies and at that time had not figured out the exchange rate so did not know whether i was paying a fortune for a bowl of rice or not. .....but all the locals seemed to pay the same amount as well so i decided to gamble it ....( later in the day i found out i had had breakfast for around 45 eurocents....;)
I am staying in a traditional Joglo (http://www.joglowoodenhouse.com) from Java of over a hundred years old. Mine has a facade but no walls or anything in the back . There it is totally open into a small garden with toads.....anyone or anything can just walk into this house ...so far i had thiefs (long story will find some time later) , toads, cats, gekkoos, very large salamander type animal, ants, dogs, kids, cleaning ladies, airco repair men and a beautiful multi-coloured bird and probably more given the weird noises i heard sometimes of animals in the night. Evenhough i am in the village, at night it sounds like a jungle here.....have enjoyed it every single night so far around 4 am....;)
Here are some pics of the house i am staying in ( sorry for the fact some are 90 degrees off....i am dealing with a Blogsite in Indonesian here ...it keeps putting all instructions in Indonesian so it is quite a miracle that there are pictures inserted at all...;):
The house is amazing and doing yoga here or meditation in the middle of the night in the open space living room with the full moon shining through the palm trees with the frogs and otehr animals making their strange noises is just magic.....
Here are some pictures of the big house ( i am in my joglo in a separate part of the garden of the property):
Anyway since i have to be online so once in a while anyway to respond to reservation requests for the summer season 2011, although I do not understand these people that plan their vacations almost a year in advance....some are already reserving for 2012......anyway that is the reason why i am online quite a lot instead of hanging out at Bali´s beaches....
I am here now since Monday evening. Arrived as a total zombie and fell asleep 3 minutes after arriving to the house at 9pm to wake up at 3 am and be totally awake....tried to get back to sleep but impossible because i was starving from hunger and only had a chocolate letter which the people who take care of my house gave me, so I went for a walk around Sanur (http://www.sanur.com) the town i stay in and had breakfast at a local market with a women with a bicycle and nasi goreng with all kind of little dishes to chose from. The locals seemed to stop at her stand as well to pick up a newspaper full of nasi to either take home or eat on the spot in the street with your hands ( i did the last since i was starving..;). I had to pay 5000 roepies and at that time had not figured out the exchange rate so did not know whether i was paying a fortune for a bowl of rice or not. .....but all the locals seemed to pay the same amount as well so i decided to gamble it ....( later in the day i found out i had had breakfast for around 45 eurocents....;)
I am staying in a traditional Joglo (http://www.joglowoodenhouse.com) from Java of over a hundred years old. Mine has a facade but no walls or anything in the back . There it is totally open into a small garden with toads.....anyone or anything can just walk into this house ...so far i had thiefs (long story will find some time later) , toads, cats, gekkoos, very large salamander type animal, ants, dogs, kids, cleaning ladies, airco repair men and a beautiful multi-coloured bird and probably more given the weird noises i heard sometimes of animals in the night. Evenhough i am in the village, at night it sounds like a jungle here.....have enjoyed it every single night so far around 4 am....;)
The house is amazing and doing yoga here or meditation in the middle of the night in the open space living room with the full moon shining through the palm trees with the frogs and otehr animals making their strange noises is just magic.....
Here are some pictures of the big house ( i am in my joglo in a separate part of the garden of the property):
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