EE & S Adventures

 Eric's view... Waterbom might be Bali's number one tourist attraction.  It's beautiful, clean, safe and full of high tech slides which can be a surprise to some tourists who might have formed a different view based on poor stereotypes and subconscious bias.  Frankly it leaves Australian water parks for dead in pretty much every way.   We were lucky to visit on what seemed to be a fairly quiet day.  The longest wait we had for any slide was about 15 minutes, but mostly wait times were between zero and 5 minutes which meant plenty of exercise climbing stairs between sliding. They have an excellent cashless system for buying food and other things in the park.  You just pre load a wristband with credit and off you go.  Unused credit gets refunded at the end of the day.  Oh and the food is a fair bit better than western amusement parks.  Way cheaper for starters, more variety and the claim that they have Bali's best chips might even be accurate. The lazy river was particula

Time to revive the blog with our Indonesian holiday stories and snaps.  We're spending 5 weeks in Bali and Lombok over December and January. First stop Seminyak where we have a nice Villa with our own pool.   Labor is very cheap here. Our room comes with breakfast. Each morning 3 people arrive to cook (within our villa) set the table and serve us. Today 5 came to clean the room! Needless to say, it is all done very quickly. Some shops employ someone to stop the traffic so people can back out or drive into the tiny car parking spots. It is a bit like having people fill your car with petrol like they did in Australia in the 80s and in South America in 2019. Walking around the streets we got quickly back into the swing of saying no to the taxi drivers, touts and various entrepreneurs trying to sell something or other.  However, the people seem to not be pushy, they leave off immediately when you say no thank you and just keep walking.  Overall, the Balinese people seem very kind and l