Amed & Tulamben

Got a new camera! So in an effort not to delay showing you Bali any longer, I will cut straight to the chase! 

I'm taking a marine invertebrate course, so we drove up to Amed & Tulamben on the Northeast coast of Bali to do some collecting. This lovely specimen came from a dead coral head we brought up.

An Echinoderm! 

The sunrise view from balcony of our hotel room in Amed totally sucked ... ;0)....

A little later in the morning...around 7:30am. If you look close, you can make out all the fishing boats coming into port (well, the beach really). Every night they go out to fish and they all return in the early morning like a flock of colorful birds...

On our way to Tulamben we passed through small towns with your typical Warungs (shops). 

This particular morning we passed a number of school children exercising and marching along the road with Mount Batur watching over them in the background...

Mount Batur

Our Dive Site   : : Tulamben : :

Check out the black sand. It's that color because the whole area is covered in volcanic rock. In fact, Mount Batur is still active and last erupted in the 1960’s...

“Enak!” (“Delicious!”)

We finished off our trip by stopping in Pedang Bai (a small coastal beach town) for some lunch; Nasi Champur! It had nasi (rice), shredded ayam (shredded chicken), tahu goreng (fried tofu cubes), tempe (a soy bean crunchy thing cooked in terriyaki sause), green beans, and a boiled egg...