Julie Powell – Photographer & Graphic Artist
Creating & Capturing Life's Precious Moments
We woke early, had a lovely buffet breakfast and packed up the last of our stuff, we were collected from the lobby and wound our way through the streets back to the bay for the boat. Forwarned was forarmed, right? We had on clothes and bathers and thongs (flip flops) for quick removal and easy…
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Our last full day here in Indonesia & Nusa Lembongan is truly wonderful. We got picked up for a drive around the island (it’s not a very big island). We stopped at Panorama Point, where we got a wonderful view of the beach, Dream Beach, and The Devil’s Tear. Lots of building work going on (I…
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Those night noises got quite loud (at Mara River Safari Lodge), to the point, it was difficult to sleep, mostly the frogs, with an occasional lion roar (usually as you were drifting off), well it sounds a bit more like a cough really, and the zebras make a sound like a donkey – sort of. Anyway,…
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We slept in and had a long breakfast before check out and the quick drive to our next resort, approx 20 minutes; the Mara River Safari Lodge – OMG! What a treat, this Resort is next door to the Bali Safari & Marine Park and we had unlimited access! So close to the animals; white tigers,…
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Wow, we have been away a week already, it feels like we have done so much. Even though it was a fairly late night, we rose early to catch our first Bali Beach Sunrise (due to the terrain we never really saw much of sunrise or sunset in Ubud), it was pretty but not magnificent.…
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We were woken suddenly at 5am to a very loud frog IN our room, we ushered it back outside to the lotus pond and went back to bed. No early start or early checkout today -so we slept in a little and then made out way down to breakfast, checked out eventually and got picked…
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I’m back from our holiday and things are all too quickly settling back into a normal routine. There is this thing that happens after a holiday, well for me and possibly for you too. We spend so long arranging these trips away, all the accommodation, where to go, what to see, often there is much…
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We again woke to more rain, we had a leisurely breakfast and then grabbed a coffee from across the street, while we waited for today’s driver who would take us to Bali Zoo. Lots of building work going on and many of the exhibits listed could not be seen, as to the animals that were…
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Rose to drizzling rain, it has been raining pretty much since dinner last evening, and the rain continued on and off all day. We were picked up by our guide Subaga, again and a new driver and we drove out to Pura Taman Ayun Temple – which translates to beautiful garden. It was much quieter…
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While in Bali we visited several places a Batik Factory and Coffee and a Chocolate Plantation, and we also visited a Gold and Silver Smith workshop. We were guided through how the refind and make silver jewelry and we were given a pamphlet of the process. However, this particular establishment did rip us off with…
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