Seriously - amazing! And not only that - IT WASN'T RAINING!! We booked our flights to come to Bali with a fair bit of apprehension. It's currently the rainy season in Bali. Hence why the tickets were affordable. While I was MUCH more on the fence about coming, Jon convinced me it was a good idea if we wanted to get to Indonesia (we had looked up other locations in the country but weren't really too keen on any of the other "big city" options). So to Bali we came! And so far so good on the rain front!
We ate a delicious buffet breakfast at our hotel before trekking out into the city to find the beach. We walked down the main road, past tons of restaurants, bars, and shops for quite a while. We got to the beach around 11 am and were absolutely SHOCKED by the scene that faced us.
There was literally garbage as far as the eye could see.
Garbage. Everywhere. DISGUSTING. We had SERIOUSLY been looking forward to spending some time on the beach in Bali and we COULD NOT believe our eyes. We're fairly certain it was THE grossest beach either of us has ever been to in our lives!!!!
But this is BALI. A place known for its beaches!!! WTH?!?!? We were TOLD the reason for the garbage is because it's rainy season, the garbage flows during the rains from all over the islands and collects on the beach. Apparently it's not at all like that during other times of the year. Honestly, I'm not quite sure I believe it. It was just SO prevalent that it's hard to imagine that it would ever not be everywhere. Quite sad.
The source of the garbage on the beach - overflowing garbage cans leads to overturned garbage everywhere during rainy season...
After feeling more than a little grossed out, we decided that we had come ALLLLLLLLLLL the way to the Indian Ocean and we had to swim in it at least for a few minutes. So we wandered into the water...and got out after about 4 minutes. Mostly because of the garbage that kept touching us everywhere.
So gross.
Bali. Not my favorite thus far.
We decided to go back to our hotel to feel less grimy from the beach. We got to the hotel and immediately jumped in our beautiful, clean pool. SO much better :).
We spent the rest of the afternoon hanging out at the pool, swimming, relaxing, and booking the rest of our flights. We have now completely booked all the flights for our trip! CRAZY to think we'll be home in a little more than a month. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh don't want to think about it!
After our relaxing afternoon we watched the (very unimpressive) sunset over the rooftops from the pool before we went back to our room to get ready for dinner and to look for excursions for tomorrow. We knew we wanted to go to Ubud (read: I knew I wanted to go to Ubud) so when we went downstairs we stopped to talk to a tour operator about our options. Not knowing much about the different routes around the island we could take, we talked to him for a while about our route. I told him I wanted to spend time in Ubud and he basically made fun of me and told me not to bother going there. I was more than a little taken aback since pretty much everyone I know who's been there talks about how amazing it is. He threw me off and somewhat bullied us into doing another tour for tomorrow which includes a short stop in Ubud towards the end of the day. I'm not super excited about the itinerary, but hopefully it will be better once we get to do more exploring tomorrow. I guess we shall see...
We got back here around 10 after eating and now it is time for sleeeeeeeeeeep.
PS - NO RAIN ALL DAY!!!
Jess' and Jon's highlight of the day: the pool
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