Bali barat
on Really Out There Experience (Indonesia), 24/Mar/2010 13:20, 34 days ago
17– 19 Maret 2010 Travelling the day after Nyepi was not the brightest idea the roads were very busy with people heading home from their villages after the holiday. We encountered four or five broken down lorries which caused absolute chaos with the already dense traffic on the narrow winding road from Denpasar to Gilimanuk. Gilimanuk is the port where ferries leave for Java and little else happens there. I took a local guide to the National Park where we spent three hours walking. He was an excellent bird mimic and managed to bring several males of different species close to us. We heard but never managed to see barking deer– the vegetation is too lush due to the rainy season to see them as they are timid. We did however see a large family of monkeys and lots of insects and an amazing selection of snails. I discovered a great warung near my hotel and spent several hours talking to the proprietor and customers. At one point a soldier left only to come hurrying back about 5 minutes later– he had put his gun on the side at the back of the warung and forgot it when he left!