The West of Bali, Gilimanuk

This side of Bali is not really interesting, except you will go by ferry to Java. The land is totally in contrast to the center of Bali, where you have all the green lovely nature with the lushy waterfalls. Here you`ll find a very dry area, poor of green vegetation.

On the way to Gilimanuk we passed Negara which is on the best way to get a tourist spot in a few years. This city is very clean, the streets are in good condition and the people we met are very helpful and friendly.

in Gilimanuk

Ferry to Java

Java

West of Bali, North of Gilimanuk

Java

At a junction near the harbor of Gilimanuk

Advertising for the famoust Ice-Tea in Indonesia. For my taste I miss sugar.

Monkey at Labuhan Lalang. Here is also the harbor for all diving sites near Gili Menjungan. Diver from Permuteran and Lovina taking a til two hours ride for diving here.

To the left: The West Bali Nature Park

Monument WW II

On my way along the road from Denpasar to Gilimanuk, I passed a monument in memorian of the WW II.

comemmorates of the fallen soldier in action

Asahduren

While a spontanous trip to the mountains in the morning I get a warm welcome and a Bali kopi at this fascinating location:

Tabanon, Tanah-Lot, Medewi Beach

My travel buddy Alex and I start in Ubud on a rainy Sunday and drove to Tabanon and Tanah-Lot where we met a nice guy from the Tourist Police at the temple. He allowed us to leave our baggage in his office while we visited Tanah-Lot.

Tanah-Lot

Statue in Tabanon

good spot for surfing

At high tide is the temple offshore.

the altar

This guys were very busy with their portable prints of the pictures.

Golf Club in the background

The priest at the altar.

Because there was not so much more interesting to see in this area, we decided to travel further on the high frequently used main road to the west in direction of Java.

The traffic is one problem, the low speed because of the big trucks a second and the biggest problem is the air pollution from the traffic. Unbelieveable and really deleterious.

That`s the reason why we want visit Negara. Unfortunately there was no more Buffalo Race this Month.

We reached Medewi Beach by darkness in the evening and where happy to get a payable room. On the second view we saw how dirty and terrible the room was and not to mention of the rat running through the restaurant.....

Because of the darkness I saw not very much of the area and decided to make a short trip in the morning up the hills to become an overview about the area. This should be a good decision.