Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Fish and a volcano.

5th and 6th of June, Bali
So the place that I was staying in Lovina turned out to be quite nice.
Every morning the fishing boats would arrive after fishing through the night.
The women would go out to meet the boat and carry the buckets of fish up the beach on their heads. Then the women would stand around the buckets and sort out the buisness end of things, who get what and prices etc.
The beach is crowded with traditional fishing boats, chickens a tethered pig and there's even a monkey tied to a tree. With so few tourists the hawkers are desperate for a sale and hassel the few there are alot.
I ended up spending alot of time talking to middle aged french people.

Then back on the moped along the coast and up to the Batur volcano.
The tourist that the town had were me another Irish guy and a Scotish guy and in the evening we sat around the coconut fire.
I climbed the Batur volcano the next morning.
The route that I took was tough enough with loose volcanic sand and gravel under foot most of the time and alot of really steep bits. It was hot too, the sun above and steam coming from below. There were a few cool steaming surpherous bits.
Got back to Ubud by the evening.

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