Visiting Sanur & Nusa Penida

After meeting back up with this rockin’ kid Marley, from Eugene, he invited us to travel back up the island to Sanur, where his Aunt Sylvia and Uncle Tomas live. Sylvia and Tomas have been living in Bali on and off for over 30 years. They run many different business aspects around the world solely …

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Exploring Bali

After the festival ended we had a day to chill out, topped off with a volunteer appreciation dinner. The next morning we took a taxi to Canggu, along with two of the friends we had made in Ubud: an Oregonian named Marley, and a girl from Hong Kong named Kirin. Canggu is a cool little …

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Bali Spirit Fest

It is difficult to put the experience of Bali Spirit Festival into words. Countless friendships were born, life lessons learned, and we rode an emotional and spiritual high like nothing ever before. Our volunteer shift began at 7am every morning, Wednesday through Sunday. Sara worked in the Healing Hut, getting to know psychic readers, healers, …

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Monkey Forest, Ubud

I’ll begin with the moral of the story: MONKEYS ARE CRAZY. Especially the gangs of monkeys that live in the Monkey Forest, a tourist attraction in Ubud, Bali. These Crab-Eating Macaques are so accustomed to human visitors that homo-sapiens don’t phase them in the slightest. When you are in the monkey forest, you are in …

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