After our Thailand Conference, we had about a week before the start of the semester in Qufu (and there was no good reason to go home early since the heat was still off in our apartment building), so we decided to take a trip with some fellow English teachers to warm Indonesia (Bali, Lombok, and the Gili Islands).
Unfortunately for Chip, he was outnumbered by women 7:1.
Bali
Monkeys on the side of the road--watch out, they scratch!
Waterfalls
Rice Paddies and other lush landscapes
Rafting in the rain forest
Coffee growing in the rain forest. It didn't taste like coffee in that form. Believe me. I tried it.
Drinking Balinese coffee later
Surfing--
While Chip and I didn't personally surf, we feel inspired to try it someday! Some of the girls in our group did surf school and absolutely loved it. We enjoyed watching crowds of surfers on Kuta Beach. Lombok
We took a ferry to Lombok. It is much less developed than Bali making it more majestically beautiful. There were mountains and beaches and waterfalls and not too many tourists.
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Beautiful Indonesian children crowded around us on the black sand beaches of Senggigi
The Gili Islands
(off the coast of Lombok)
