As our flight to Bali was in the early afternoon, we didn’t have too much time for sightseeing, but still had the morning to spend around Labuanbajo. We decided to go to a nearby beach, which was at walking distance from our guesthouse.
The beach was not very particular. We being almost the only people there, it looked quite deserted, but somehow not in a nice way. There was a lot of garbage in the sea and also of the road to the beach. This really looked sad. Actually, we have noticed that the careless presence of garbage everywhere is prevalent throughout Indonesia, and even diving or snorkelling in Gilis and Komodo you can see plastic bags and empty packs of chips lying around among the corals. It made us think that even though the country is poor, keeping your neighbourhood clean by not throwing waste randomly around but collecting it wouldn’t cost anything. Throwing rubbish around just expresses disrespect.
We took a bemo to the airport around noon and stayed there waiting for our plane, which was delayed (of course). The airport was rather small and simple, but a town of 7,500 inhabitants with only a few flights a day does not need anything fancy.
The plain was a bit worn out – the AC dripped water at some places and some seats would recline front when leaning on them, but fortunately everything functioned enough to take us safely to Denpasar.
We arrived to Denpasar around 5 pm. We got a taxi from the airport to Ubud. It took almost two hours to get to Ubud. As we approached Ubud, there we a lot of paddy fields and stone and wood carving workshops along the road, and generally the scenery was really nice.
As it was already dark by the time we got to Ubud, we were not much in the mood to go around different places. We had gathered several recommendations for accommodation in Ubud from other travellers. So we just told the taxi driver to drop us one of them. So, we stayed in a place which looks like it has been a temple some time ago (I’m not quite sure if it actually was a temple or not, but it looks really nice anyway).
We dropped our luggage and found a nice place for dinner nearby.
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