I haven't laptop with me so it's quite difficult to update my blog realtime. Luckily Matti had a laptop with him and he was able to make entrys to his blog while we were travelling. You can find finnish version of our journey from his blog.
From Ubud we took a Bemo(a public transport, pickup, minivan, bus) to Gianyar and it was not a problem. 10k for two persons. The bemo towards Semarapura left from the same place where we were dropped off in Gianyar and the price was again 10k(87 euro cents) for 2 persons.
Things went a little more difficult beyond Semarapura. We wanted to take a mountain road which goes from Rendan to Amlapura instead of going a straight road from Semarapura to Amlapura. So we had to take a 1 stop more in the north near volcano gunung agung. According to lonely planet there is a bemo connection from Semarapura to Selat and from there to Amlapura but we didn't found that. Instead of that we went from Semarapura to Rendang and hitchhiked a truck from Rendang to Selat. We paid 2k (15-20 euro cents) to the truck driver for a 10km drive.
We noticed that there was some kind of hindu festival going on somewhere near and all the bemos were full. It was actually impossible to get a public transport from Selat to Amlapura and we decided to do a little more hitchiking. We managed to get a drive from a family who was going to temple. It was quite bizarre to sit in the same car with an indonesian family who didn't spoke any english and who were dressed in sarongs and other temple 'costumes'. We tipped 10k for the driver for driving us from Selat to Amlapura.
Amlapura was one of a shithole. Everybody asking for money and even one good place to eat. We went to a one restaurant that was on a lonely planet's map and this is what happened: The waitress was sleeping when we got in. After she got awake we got our menus but when we were still looking the menus one guy from the street brought cold satay(beef on a stick), soup and rice in front of us. Well menu was taken away and that was our lunch. Well we didn't eat the cold meat, tasted the soup and finally just ended up eating the plain rice. The whole set cost almost 2 euros which was ridiculous. Everybody should avoid Amlapura!
From Amlapura we had to pay around 2 euros to get to Tulamben. Even when we asked to be dropped in front of our hotel the driver dropped us out in front of his friend's hotel and we had to walk a little bit to find our place. Very nice with 30+ degrees and 20kgs on your back.
Well we actually found our way to Tulamben and booked a bungalow just next to the famous liberty ship wreck. The twin room was around 6 euros. The place was really quiet. There was only 1 family and like 1-2 tourist more than us. The 'advantages' of the off-season.
I decided to go diving next day and see what's that wreck all about...
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