Sideman to Mt Batur

The hotel in Sidemen is nice, great pool looking up to the highest mountain in Bali, Dunung Agung – 3142m. Room to is good, and it has a partly outdoor bathroom, fresh.

After a good night sleep are we going for a hike true Sideman. Having a good 4 hours hike true the rise fields and a loot of other fields of farming”stuff”, big areas of farmland, and it is all worked by hand, no machines, quite impressive. The people we meet on our way, or most of them say “hallo” even before we do it. It is not the richest people in the world, but it seams not to be the worst place to have little if you have land to farm. We also have a stop at a weavery in the village of Sideman that does not seams like the best place to work for me, and some of the girls sitting there an work looks very young, and are maybe destine to sit there for the rest of their life. On the hike are we also passing an injured dog, most likely hit by a car. Our tour leader ask around for a veterinary and if someone cold help, but no such luck. Even if it is many dogs around, and someone own most of them they will not use money on them, expect maybe against rabies. Sad.



We finish our trip having lunch packed in bananaleaf and eating it with our fingers, Indonesian style, tastes fantastic!

After some pool time we drive further up the mountain to get to Kedisan, where we will do a volcano top – Mt Batur 1717 meter - hike from the next morning. Not any fancy hotel here, but it works. I am buying some paintings from a guy hanging by the restaurant. He have his gallery in a box at his scooter, say he he have made them, but I do not know if it is true. Nice picture, and I like them, and they are cheap. they will go on my wall, original or not.


Very early start of the day, 3 am, an on the way to the top 1 hour later. Dark off course, so we need to use flash lights, and it is raining most of the way to the top. Not optimistic about the sunrise, and we don't get to see any either even if the sun rises as always this day too. The hike is not very hard, just a little.First time i wear shoes in 5 weeks, and that is a bit hard. The trip back down is a bit slippery, but not dangerous.

Foggy camera

Left Kedisan at 10 am for Lovina where we gonna have the 2 next nights.