Taxi, you want taxi?

Is a question you get a lot of times when you are out walking around in Ubud at Bali. And my answer is all the time “no thank you, I walk”, “ no thank you are also used in a lot of other situations whenever someone is trying to sell me something, t-shirts, Rolex, massage a

About taxies, I did take a taxi from the airport till Ubud, lots of traffic and it took around 1,5 hour, and the price was 195 000 IRM (130 NOK), not bad comparing to Norway. The scooter traffic reminds me about Vietnam, not quite as many, but more than enough to make it a bit difficult to cross the street.

The Hostel, or the homestay is great, but that you can read about under.


Ubud, I like this town, it is small town, good to walk around in, lots of shops, galleries and small restaurants, and if you just take a small stroll down one smaller side street you all of a sudden find yourself surrounded by rise fields. Like it, and that is good since I will come back here 2 more times when I am here in Indonesia. Since I will meet my Intrepid group here in Ubud haven’t I stressed to much about seeing that much, have walked around, palace, shopped, Monkey forest, eaten to much, not drinked enough, sweated a lot, enjoyed it.




Tried to get together some CS’rs the night I arrived, but there was absolutely no interest at all, sorry about that. But are meeting up again with Valverena from Kuching at my last night for now in Ubud, looking forward to that. Good to get some company again of  an“old” friend.

Update Friday: We met at the Laughing Buddha, my favorite place in Ubud. It had live music, which I new, but not what kind. It turned out to me great jazz with vocal this time. A Balinese woman with a great voice, loved it. It was also open for guest to join  in, and it was some very good singers among them, and a drummer. Had an amazing evening, great music and good company by Valvanera and some others at the table, even the food was good today, and that have only been average the other times. Have, by the way, had all my dinners at this place in Ubud.

Have also forgotten to mension that it is Balinese new year on Friday, and that I am missing it, sorry for that, but the downside is that they have silient day tomorrow, Saturday March 5th, which mean that one are not allowed to go outside, everything is closed, even the airport at Bali, not enough time to have an indoor day.

At the writing (updating moment) am I at Gili Trawangan, and it is very very hot, sweating just by sitting down. Will go diving tomorrow, 2 dives for sure. Got a good price, -25 % because I am an owsi, so to all that say that you should not use your black card, think about it again. Have btw always had good experiences with showing the black one.

See you:)