Bali thoughts

Ubud, Bali

Having spent a couple of days in the Kuta/Legian area of Bali, it's obvious where the town planners came up with the idea - South Manchester. Tourists there weirdly echo the students of Manchester. Kuta, the first place you come too, is Fallowfield. It's the party central, it's where all the young aussies (and others) go to drink and have fun. It's the most touristy and busy part. As you move northwards you come to Legian - aka Withington. This is the mixing part, it's people who want to be able to go to Fallowfield/Kuta but don't want to live there. Those that want to be in Didsbury/Seminyak but can't afford it. The best place I would say, in fact the hostel I stayed at I would recomment to anyone coming here. it's awesome, cheap, new, clean, great pool and everyones really nice. Seminyak is where the richer tourists go - there's less hawkers, and more pricier places to eat and stay.

I took a few photo's of the hostel that I'll upload once. I jumped in the pool last night before realising I'd forgotten to take my t-shirt off, oops.

The people of Bali who aren't trying to sell you anything are really nice. Unfortunately that's about 1% of the population thus far. Ubud, where I am now, isn't so bad, and in fact, I'd even say it's a pretty place. Full of art gallerys and cool little shops. Quite a lot of decorated animal skulls knocking around. My hostel is scary as hell though down this sketchy flooded alley - if I don't make it out alive my killers are just of Monkey Forest road near the football pitch right?