One morning we booked a cycling tour around the northeastern part of the island. Yes, we know we’re not normally cyclists, but they provided the equipment and promised that most of the ride would be downhill.
All of the guides at Sobek Bali have nicknames, and ours called himself One because he’s the oldest child in his family. One picked us up at 7:30 and brought us back in time for dinner. We drove to the north side of the island and within shouting distance of Bali’s two largest volcanoes.
Here’s what we saw on our big day out.
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Soooo jealous. I’m enjoying living digitally through you guys! These climates and jungle environments are currently at the top of my travel plans.
Hey there!
The rice paddies and jungles of Bali are beautiful, but the humidity is like walking around in a sauna for hours at a time. We love the breezes here. And we’ve had some epic thunderstorms, too. It’s all been worth it.
I was disappointed to see caged civets. I always imagined they had people harvesting free range cat poop in the jungle to make that coffee. And you never mentioned how it tasted…
If you’re still there, check out 87.8 Hard Rock Radio Bali. My cousin’s a DJ for them – her name’s Mira.
You’re right, I did forget to mention that. The coffee was pretty good. Chasing the cats around the jungle to find individual coffee beans is taking locally sourced to the extreme. I’ll have to look around for a radio to check out Mira. Maybe they have a stream? What favorite hard rock song of yours should I request?
They do have a stream: http://www.hardrockfm.com/stations/bali. They don’t list a schedule, though, and I don’t know what shift Mira works. If you call in a request, tell her to pick a song Comet would like. (Comet is her very photogenic beagle.)
Found the schedule. She’s got the afternoon drive shift (does Bali have a commute?): M-F 4:00-8:00 pm.
I didn’t get to listen to her show, but I did listen a bit to the station and I must say that ‘Hard Rock’ has a different connotation over there.