Amie and the adventures

Selamat Datang [Hello in Balinese],

In Sanur we cycled by the beach and on the way back they turned all the lights off by the beach because it was really very windy and all the warangs closed so when we cycled back it was pitch black! All you could see was the moon. I was at the front with Alex and mummy behind me and I had to cycle all the way back to our hotel in the dark it was frightening but we made it!

The next morning we got to the white water rafting shack and they put life jackets and helmets on then we got our paddle and walked down about five hundred steps! When we got there we got in the boat and there were two chinese ladies, two swedish ladies, mummy, alex, me and the guide.  The guide kept saying to the chinese ladies 'monkey pee pee, monkey pee pee, anoconda',  He then threw a green plant stem in the boat saying 'snake!!! The chinese ladies nearly jumped out! He also deliberately bashed the boat against rocks to make us all jump!

Mr Boy picked us up early the next day for cycling. We made friends with a dutch man and his bali wife and their little girl age nine in the van,  They were great fun we taught them how to play rock, paper, scissors. At the cycling we saw a Balinese school and all the kids came running up to us because they had never seen white kids like us before in their school. We also saw a farm that grew coffee beans which were fed to the civet cats and then the coffee beans in their poo was made into coffee.  They told us it is really good because the cats always eat the good beans.

 
On the journey across the mountains to Permuteran,  me and Alex sat in the boot of the van on our suitcases looking out of the back window. We could see all the motor bikes and the crazy thing is only adults (and not all adults) where helmets not the kids. There were four people on one bike and also another bike had a dog standing up with it's paws on the handle bars. Our house in permuteran is on stilts with the toilet and shower outside.  In  our bathroom there are lots volcanic rocks which is cool.  We went to the beach which is very very local. The sand is grey volcano sand. We found a local farm shack on the beach selling crafts.

We found a turtle conservation place which is part of a travellers guest house on the beach set up by an english man. We fed the turtles in the tanks. While we were there, fisherman brought up the beach a sick turtle in a wheel barrow.  It was sad. The turtle had been caught in a net round it's arm and the flipper was all swollen up. the lady cut the rope off and it took three men to lift him into a tank. He had a cut on his neck and his leg. You could see the guts coming out of it's neck. But the lady put antibiotics in the water which made it purple. They said it would get better, You can release turtles into the sea but they did not have any old enough to go today.


See you again on my neck blog
yours sincerely Amie xxx