Bali, Ubud and Amed

It's already more than a week ago that I arrived in Bali. What an amazing beautiful island is this 😍. I arrived in the morning and got myself direct an Indonesian sim card so I had Internet to get myself an grab motorbike to Ubud. I love the motorbike taxis :) I was early for the yoga retreat, at 6 we would meet the other yogi's. I dropped my backpacks in my room and had a walk around in the village. The yoga retreat is in the middle of the rice fields and my room was next to the pool!! At the yoga retreat where 8 other people, seven girls and one boy. Its was special how good we all got along. Every day we had a yoga class at 7 in the morning and at 5 in the afternoon. We had one balinese massage, an massage with oil. The massage was nice but I prefer the Thai massage, that is stronger. 

Monday we went for a walk in the ricefields and Ariel the owner of the retreat was giving explanation about different herbs and fruits. After the walk we maked basket from cocos tree leaves, this basket the locals use every day to put offers in for the gods.  Tuesday we went for an excursion to a school talking English with the kids and to see a local balinese community, planting rice and the kids did balinese dancing. Also we got shown a balinese house with the family temple and how they make sambal. Surprisingly the sambal was not spicy but maybe that's because we are tourist that they put less chili in. On Wednesday we maked Jamu drink and yellow curry with Jack fruit and on Thursday we had herbal tea tasting and making chocolate. I really loved the retreat!! On Friday we had time for ourself and Alba and I went on the grab taxi bikes to see some temples with holy water and to a swing above some rice terraces. The view by the swings was amazing!!! The time was flying and before I knew it was already saterday, the end of the yoga retreat. I felt so so good during the yoga retreat, I have not felt like that for a long time! On saterday after breakfast it was time to say good bye and I went in to Ubud center. I arranged myself the day before a bike taxi at 3 o clock from Ubud to Amed so I still had some hours to see more of Ubud center. I went for a pedicure with gellak, looked in some shops, walked to the monkey forest and had a lunch from duck spring rolls. It was nice to eat meat again after a week of vegetarian food. Not that the food at the retreat was not nice  it's was amazing actually but I missed some meat. The drive to Amed by motor taxi was very very nice, it took two and half hours and we had one ass break I'm the middle to get the feeling back in our ass! 

When I arrived in Amed I told the boy by the hostel I wanted to go diving and within 20 minutes someone from a dive school came to the hostel and I booked two dives for the next day. I was the only person in the dorm, it was nice to have the dorm for myself but there where also no other people to socialise with. The next day I was first diving by amed wall a dive of 77 minutes just me and the guide and after some snacks at the dive school we did the second dive by the liberty wreck also 77 minutes. After the dive i booked a yoga class and still had time in-between for a short massage. A better day is not possible for me diving, yoga and massage!! Yesterday I wanted to see more of Amed but it was raining so much, yes it's rainy season here, that I stayed by the hostel and uploaded my photos on this blog. I had booked a yoga class at 5 and on the way back I got the ticket for the transport today by minivan and ferry to Gili Air. Last night there was a really nice band playing by the hostel. I was with Nora and Timo, people from the hostel and we shared a bottle of a balinees alcoholic drink. It was a very nice evening but I could feel it this morning!! Now I am on the boat with Timo he is going to Gili T, the first stop of this boat. I skipped Gili T so I have more time on Gili air. Gili T is mostly party and Gili air has more yoga. I booked the same hostel as Miriam, a girl I met in Bangkok so soon I will see her again :)