We had decided to spend the day driving a motorcycle around to explore. We were preparing for our day trip. The Beach Huts Lembongan hotel was situated on a narrow walkway some distance above the beach with heavy pedestrian traffic. We carefully walked the motorcycle through the crowd of tourists until we got to a safe spot to mount the machine.
We climbed onto the motorcycle and embarked on our day of exploration. We carefully maneuvered around oblivious pedestrians to get to our first spot, the Seaweed Farms. The roads were very unpredictable and had many winding twists, turns, and steepness. Joe had forgotten his sunglasses and with the sun beating down on us like it was, we needed to find a place that sold them and quick. It wasn't difficult in the area we were in however, so we stopped by a small open store and had a quick look around. As we were looking at the sunglasses, we noticed something that we would see many more times during the rest of our stay in the Bali area; penis bottle openers. So many penis shaped bottle openers.
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| So much penis |
We bought a nice pair of knock off Ray Ban sunglasses and continued on our trek. It was nice and bright and we had a great view of the ocean from the road we were driving along. We made it up our first steep hill and stopped to enjoy the view.
We continued on to our first destination in Nusa Lembongan, the Seaweed Farms.
There were many people in the low tide working to farm kilos of seaweed as tourists flocked the area trying to avoid getting in the way of their work. It's truly something to appreciate the hard work these farmers put in to harvest the stuff. They can only harvest during low tide so if the tide lowers at night, they are out there harvesting their crop.
We walked through the shallow water where we had to avoid stepping on the many Brittle Sea Stars that were burrowed in the sand. We stuck around for a little bit until it was time to drive to our next destination.
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| Brittle star |
As we progressed, the roads became increasingly steep and the pavement was old and broken. It can honestly be said that the roads had became so bad and so steep that we actually feared for our safety. The tires twisted and turned around the broken, crumbling, and protruding slabs of concrete causing us to nearly lose balance and tip. Take that with the crazy steepness and you can say what should have been a road was really more of a dangerous obstacle course.
We eventually made it to a small parking lot next to a sign for Dream Beach.
We parked our motorcycle and made our way down the stairs onto the beautiful rocky beach. We took the opportunity to rest in the shade underneath the overlaying rock as we watched the waves. The beach was littered with fossilized coral and there were many boulders as well. Ultimately we took to exploring the beach a bit and ended up climbing some rock to find a hidden beach with no other people. It had softer sand near the mouth of the cave which turned into a field of large rocks and rushing water.
We continued on the road of death and crossed the bridge to Nusa Ceningan until we made it to the Blue Lagoon.
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| Blue Lagoon |
We only followed the road and the street sign when we found Secret Beach. We were confused when we finally arrived at the place because it was actually a resort called Villa Trevally. We entered anyway, and with the fact that there was nobody stopping us, we we figured we weren't exactly trespassing. The beach is located in the area of the resort and you don't have to stay at the hotel or buy food from the restaurant to enjoy it, which is awesome.
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| Secret Beach |
Since Joe was craving Mexican food, we were looking around to find it. There was this place called The Palms Ceningan that sells authentic Mexican Food. We had lunch here, burrito and Spanish rice with beans, chips with salsa sauce and guacamole and chicken satay, of course. Ayu's first experience of tasting guacamole left an unpleasant memory that will haunt her for life.
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| The authentic Mexican food, they say (FYI, satay was not included) |
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| The view while enjoying our lunch at The Palms Ceningan |
We continued on the death road to a place we were very excited about. This place was the Gala-Gala Underground House. The Gala-Gala House was an underground shelter built by a man named Mada Byasa using nothing but a crowbar and a lot of time on his hands. The project took him 15 years to complete and it was finished in 1976. The house has now become a relatively popular tourist attraction.
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| There are 5 ways to get down to the underground house |
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| Inside the underground house |
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| We believe it's a bed |
We were both pretty beat at this point and the day had really worn on us. We had a lot of fun and thankfully we made it back to the Beach Huts before the sun set.
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