Our stay in Kuta on Bali didn't get off to the best of starts. On our first morning when we left our hotel I was crossing the road and got knocked down by a scooter that I didn't see coming. Nose was pouring with blood but luckily wasn't broken just a bit sore and bruised! Then within a couple of days Kerrin had his bank card stolen. Other than that we are having a great time!!
The place we are staying is awsome - room service breakfast and a big pool so we've been spending plenty time chilling around the pool! Kuta beach is really nice and very busy with surfers (something we've still got to try out) and the sunset over the water is really nice! Kuta itself is so busy with cars and motor bikes everywhere and so many people trying to sell you things!
We spent a day at Waterbom, the water park and had a great time (with plenty screams) on all of the flumes. One was called Boomerang - it started like a normal flume but then shot you up vertically so you thought that you might go over the edge and then you came hurtling down again backwards! VERY scary!
Another day was spent doing a tour of Bali. We saw a Barong and Kris Cultural dance; rice fields; a monkey forest where there were monkies EVERYWHERE including jumping onto people they thought had food; visited a stone carving village; and had an amazing view of Lake and Mount Batur - an active volcano. The last stop was at a spice plantation which at first seemed a bit boring but we got to see them making coffee and got a taste. Kerrin couldn't resist trying the most expensive coffee in the world made by feeding coffee beans to civets and waiting for them to come out the other end which makes the coffee a lot smoother! Apparently Peter Jones sells it in London for 50pound a cup!!
You might have noticed we were getting a bit hooked on scuba diving so another day was spent doing some dives at the ship wreck of the US Cargo ship, Liberty which the Japenese sunk during WW2. We could see for over 25m and was really cool to see some of th structure of the ship and swim amongst it and we saw plenty of big fish we hadn't seen before.
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