Bali Island / Indonesia

...had to spend a couple of days in Kuta before meeting my friend with whom I had met in Malaysia while couchsurfing the same house and had agreed on meeting in Indonesia. The city was infested with surfers from all over the world (mainly Australia) and clubs. Every three meters (ten ft) you either got offered a massage, taxi ride or a woman. Needless to say it wasn't my favorite place to be in. For some odd reason I decided to pick up my friend from the airport with a scooter. It would have been fine except that the scooter had manual gears, which was something I wasn't used to, so it kept dying on me, my friend had a broken arm in a cast, and a huge backpack. It definitely wasn't the smartest idea but thanks to her positive attitude turned out to be a fine ride...
...she came up with the brilliant idea of renting a car and having a road trip, so we shopped around a little bit and settled on one of the finest vehicles ever produced, known to humanity by its well deserved name of "Super Jimmy". The body resembled a classic Jeep and that was all the resemblance there was. It looked old, in fact was old, and sure enough ran like an old car with all the roughness and grunginess...
...sate (satay), which basically is meat on skewers, was my favorite food in Bali. This simple street food is prepared by marinating meat, pork or fish in peanut sauce and cooking it over a grill. Green bean ice cream was another pleasantly different thing we tried. And we were also very fond of our whisky with iced green tea for the evenings...
...despite having a car we didn't do much driving around. Our longest stop was in Ubud, which seemed like a playground for rich hippies with all of its fancy shops and restaurants with a mystic touch (here mystic describes the false, deceiving atmosphere created and sought after by the modern day hippies that commercializes the ideas and serves them on a golden tray to their comfort and pleasure). Another stop was a coastal town called Amed. There I had my best snorkeling experience to date with an endless variety of fish in an infinite spectrum of colors. My friend kept mentioning how happy I looked every time I came out of the water, and she sure was right...