There are few good reasons to wake up early:
- Breakfast
- Work
- You need to go to the toilet because you drunk too much the night before
Apart from those three, no other reasons are good enough.
Except maybe the chance to see wild dolphins in the ocean!
And so we woke up around 5:30 as we had to be ready at 5:50 in front of our villa to be taken to the boat.
Oh… Wait… I didn’t mention one thing: I spent the entire night fighting a f@$#&!g mosquito.
Btw, at the chosen hour we were ready and standing where told, but nobody came to pick us.
At around 6:05 the captain of the boat showed up telling us that it was windy and the sea was too rough to sail.
Already awake, we decided to book the dolphins experience for the next day, and go to the beach anyway waiting for the sunrise.
Sunrise as seen from Lovina Pier at 6:15am
While there, we noticed that many boat were sailing with their passengers on board, heedless of the waves and wind.
As we were there looking at people going where we wanted to go, the captain of our boat came to us telling that if we wanted we could go.
Why not?
In 5 minutes we were on his 4 seats jungkung.
Sara’s happy to be on board.
Sunrise from aboard the jungkung
In less than 10 minutes we were off shore heading with the other boats to the Reef. Dozens of boats. Maybe more than hundred.
We found the dolphins. It was like a game of tag. They were coming up from the sea randomly, and all the boats were trying to get close before them disappearing among the waves.
We we’re lucky enough to get close enough to see the dolphins 5 times, and the last time we got the entire “family” swimming in front and all around our boat.
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Enraptured from the experience we sailed to the beach, where we thanked our captain and went back to our villa just in time for breakfast.
Mixed fruit juice, chocolate pancake and fresh fruit for Sara
Banana pancake, fresh fruit, and black coffee
No time to rest! A fast shower, checkout from the villa, and we moved our luggage to another stay here in Lovina.
We had to move as the villa was available for booking one day only. What a pity.
Well the new place was not bad at all…
Shared swimming pool
Modern and clean bedroom with annex bathroom
We left our stuff and went to rent a motorcycle as we wanted to visit Danau Batur, a lake formed in the caldera of a still active volcano.
On the way to the lake we decided to stop in Penelokan to visit both a local Hindu temple and have a view of the lake from above, given the elevated position of the village.
The first part of the trip was great as the temperature was well over 30ºC and traffic was not so bad.
Unfortunately as we climbed the mountain, the temperature dropped. As soon as we climbed half way to Penelokan temperature was way lower than when we left Lovina.
Then started raining, taking the thermometer to an astonishing 18ºC. Too cold for comfort.
We barely reached Penelokan, and run inside a shop.
Pull&Bear: now only 10€!
We bought two 100% fake true Pull&Bear for a ridiculous price. I didn’t really care if it was fake! I was freezing and wearing only a t-shirt and shorts. Everything warmer than that was welcome!
Acclimated we went to take a look at the temple in Penelokan.
After a short visit at the temple, which was very beautiful, we rode in the lake direction.
A couple of kilometers down the road from Penelokan, we stopped in a natural balcony to admire this incredible natural show.
From the picture above is visible the lake surrounded on the right by the ancient volcano side which has created a cliff. On the mountain in the center, the black spots marks recent volcanic activity with lava flows.
Seen what we came to see, and too cold to continue, we decided to turn back and ride back to the warmth of the coast.
On the way we stopped to record the following video 😂
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Definitely some roosters here in Bali need deep tuning!
As we reached Lovina, we went to book the shuttle bus for the next day and then went to the beach to enjoy the sunset.
The pier was full of people so we sat on the shore and enjoyed the moment with our drone.
Picture 1 from the Drone
Picture 2 from the Drone
Picture 4 from the drone
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Sunset Time!
Our fearless drone pilot!
We also met 4 guys from Indonesia, student of a local school of “Hotel & Cruise International”, who wanted to speak English with someone.
We talked a bit, exchanged WhatsApp and Instagram, took some pictures and then left for dinner.
The place we went was very nice.
There was also a guitar in going around the tables playing songs in different languages. For us he sang in Spanish 😐 well you can say it is almost the same…
The food was great.
Spring rolls
Home made pork sausages. Very close to salsiccia!
Fried noodles with staff…
Fried rice with the sea stuff on top
Tired, full, and happy for the full day, we went to our room to get some rest.
Tomorrow is gonna be a long day…
