Bali Tour Guide

When we arrived at his house, there were some people outside Ketut Liyer house waiting  for their return. Ketut Liyer is a traditional healer and a palm reader.  He has become popular after the book and the movie Eat Pray Love. This is also the reason why I visited him that day. My client wanted me to take her to meet, Ketut Liyer, the palm reader. After waiting for about two hours, then my client, got her turn. So, there she was sitting cross legged before the traditional healer. I sat by her side, my job was to translate what the traditional healer said to her. The palm reader looked at me and and asked, "who are you?" I said to him that I was the tour guide. And my clients ask me to translate what he said to her. To my surprise, he spoke English quite fluently. But there were some instances that I needed to translate. Ketut looked at her face, taking into details of the shape of her eyes, her eyebrows, and then went on saying, "you are a very beautiful lady and...

Here are some photos from trekking around Tamblingan post. We started tracking down into the tropical forests. Descending from Banyuatis village, we walked down on the slippery stairs leading to the forests near Lake Tamblingan. Some beautiful trees that we encountered along the way. There are many more huge trees,and some of them fell down because of strong wind. we stop for a rest and taking some photos in Pura Dalem Tamblingan (the temple located near the lake). we finish resting and we continued our way back riding "catamaran" through the lake. The paddler was a little girl and his father. the view of the lake, the forests, the Hills, taken from the boat.

It was a cloudy day in Bali. Rain poured down lightly from the sky. I went with Mr Lim and his family (his wife and his two children, a 17-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son) to go trekking in the tropical forest of around Lake Tamblingan. We arrived at Munduk village at around 11 AM. Munduk village is located in a higher land from where we can look down in the distance, the two lakes. Lake Buyan and Lake Tamblingan. Our trekking plan was to start walking from Munduk village down to the tropical rainforest. There was a trekking post, a small building, where my friend, Kadek, a professional trekking guide, was waiting for us. I said hello to Kadek and then we started descending through the stairs into the thickness of the tropical jungle. At the beginning of our trekk, it was a bit easier. Since there are a few stairs built along our trekking route, from where we were, at the top of a valley, descending approximately about 90 m. But we had to be careful because the stairs are a...