Canggu

Reflecting after getting pummelled at Canggu

Another adventurous day. Woke up at 5:20am (ridiculous I know) and went surfing near our place, ate breakfast and lazed around for awhile. Then we decided to find another surf spot called Canggu (pronounced Chang-ooh). We always say it's not the destination....it's the journey. This is very true when driving in Bali, numerous wrong turns, lack of proper road signs, unbelievable traffic and crazy drivers....but I'm starting to get used to it and learning how to drive Bali style. Oh yeah, I had my first crooked cop experience today. We were pulled over because we stopped too far forward on a red light, we tried to explain this to the cop and ask that he let us go. His english was hard to understand but we knew that he was saying that he could give us a ticket that had to be payed at the dept of justice for 100,000 Rp, or we could settle it there with him for 50,000 Rp. I pretended to understand him less than I actually did in hopes he would just get frustrated and let us go. Not the case. Ssssoooo, after bargaining a bit :) we talked him down to giving him 20,000 Rp which would go directly into his pocket. Haha, you can bargain EVERYTHING here. Finally after a beautiful drive into the rural parts of Bali we arrived at our spot. Went surfing, I got pummelled as usual. Then we just hung out on the beach and enjoyed the setting; tons of Balinese people came to hang out on the beach as it was Sunday evening, super cool. Just us and the locals. Came back to Kuta and decided to eat junk tonight, went for a walk down the main strip and gorged ourselves with MacD's and Dunkin Donuts....mmmmmm.

Flooded road, rainy season here

Rural areas we drove by

The locals hanging out at the beach on Sunday evening.