Dragging ourselves away from Candi Dasa

I think we might have stayed at the Best Exotic Shangrila Hotel for another week if we could have.  Slow motion just seemed to be natural.

We wandered out for lunch one day and asked a taxi driver to take us to White Sand beach.  We didn't realise we'd be going four wheel driving to get there but we arrived in one piece!  It was well worth the effort. 

We had lunch at a restaurant on the beach

with a choice of freshly caught fish

Signs are deceptive

No toilets working here.  If you want to piss...go for a swim

The snorkelling's not bad either.  For $3.50 you can hire snorkel, mask and flippers

and there's even live music 

The next day we hired one of the hotel staff to take us for a walk up the mountain to see the sun rise.  We left at 5.45am and climbed a very steep ascent, arriving red faced to view the breathtaking sight of the sun rising in the east

The islands I've been photographing from the hotel look like small dots from this height

Just when I thought we'd finished our ascent, we just kept on climbing

and climbing

until we reached the holy temple at the top

and then there was only one way to go on the other side...down

and down

Dika, our guide, led us through the back laneways of his village.  What a beautifully peaceful way to live

even the monkeys are relaxed

eleven piglets born yesterday