Dahab and Cairo

Got on the bus to dahab and met this crazy american guy who wrote for a paper in turkey (although I'm not sure I believe him). He would not stop talking to me, just rambling on about nothing!! What a poor representation of our country, at that point I understood why a lot of people didn't like americans. I got 'rescued' by an older egyptian man and a french couple. It turned out that this was a worse option. I got stuck next to the egyptian man who kept trying to kiss my hand and put his hand on my leg. I tried to laugh it off at first but he got pretty grabby and kept saying he loved me. I was on the verge of flipping out when he had to get off the bus (thank god). The rest of the ride to dahab was pretty much uneventful. We made quite a few bathroom breaks to pee in holes in the ground (and pay to do so). I finally got to dahab and ended up chatting with 2 american girls from NYC. I got a ride to my hotel with them and checked in. Walked around for a bit and checked out the coast. Got some food in a little cafe and relaxed for a bit. I got back to my room around 1pm and decided to take a nap. The nap ended up lasting until the next morning. Lol. Took a shower only to find out that they use heated up salt water. Great! Grabbed my stuff and went to the beach to relax for the day. The water was bright blue and you could honestly see saudi arabia!! Layed out, read my book and went for a quick swim. Walked around for a bit, grabbed some food and headed to the bus station. I had a ton of time to kill so I figured I'd walk. Probably not the best idea to be walking to a bus station in egypt in the dark by myself, but I ended up making it safe and sound. Caught the bus to Cairo and immediately passed out. Woke up with a guy sitting next to me. I oroginally thought he was egyptian but it turned out he was canadian, I immediately felt better. At one of the stops there ended up being a fight between the bus driver and one of the passengers. Apparently the bus driver wouldn't open the compartment with the mans stuff because he had put it in the compartment for the nwxt stop. Haha. We arived in cairo really early in the morning and I set out with the canadian, his siter and friend, abd a german guy to find the metro. After walking around forever we found it. They headed back to central cairo and I went to check out islamic cairo. I checked out the mosques in islamoc cairo and tried to go to the infamous market but it was too early to be open. I decided not to wait around and instead head back to central cairo for some pizza hut! Unfortunately pizza hut was closed until 11 so I ended up hanging out in mcdonalds, where I ran into the canadian again. Pizza hut finally opened, I grabbed some delicious food, grabbed my other bag from the hostel and headed to the airport to grab my 3:00 flight to greece. My taxi dropped me off at terminal 1 and I confirmed with the security guard that I was at the right terminal for aegean airways. I waited around for a bit and decided to ask information just to make sure. Turns out I was in the wrong terminal, typical, and terminal 2 was pretty far away. I ended up lucking out and the bus to terminal 2, which only ran every hour, would be there in 5 minutes. I took that bus and then had to take another one to the actual terminal (ridiculous). I butted like 20 people in the security line so I wouldn't miss my flight and finally checked in. An older greek man asked me if I was travelling alone, I said yes and he looked at me in disbelief. Lol. He assured me that egypt was a very dirty country and greece was nothing like this. I could only hope. Got on my flight to athens, got some delicious quiche and a brownie, and passed out.

Sketchy train station, Luxor, and a double dose of idiocy

The train station at Giza was interesting to say the least. I was trying to figure out where to grab my train from and some guy ended up telling me that it had left even though I was like and hour and a half early. I started freaking out at which point a canadian and american tour group noticed me. They had their guide read my ticket and as it turned out I was on their train (which definately hadn't left yet). I ended up chatting with the head of the canadian group who was a history teacher who was appalled that I was travelling egypt by myself and obsessed with american politics. So for the millionth time on this trip I got dragged into another political debate. Luckily they were on the sleeper car and I was in the regular car!! Met some students from yale and then passed out. Woke up in luxor!! It was pretty early so I decided to go to the bus station to get my ticket to dahab for that night first. As it turns out it was really early and nothing was even open yet. I pretty much had no idea what I was going to do for the day so I went to Mcdonalds (the only thing open at 6:30 in the morning) to grab some food and figure it out. I turns out almost everything was closed until 8, so I decided to walk to the furthest thing away and hope it was open when I got there. This ended up being the Karnak temple which looked like it was about a mile away. Luckily I had stored my big backpack in Cairo and had just brought my little one. I headed on my way and was immediately harassed with honks, hissing and 'Oh my gods'. I definately was regretting my decision to not wear a headscarf. At one point this man stopped to offer me a ride on his horse drawn buggy and ended up following me for a good 10 minutes. As I got closer to the temple the scenery got more and more distinct. At one point I was walking through a steet full of run down houses that looked as if they were made of clay. Outside there were donkeys and children in torn robes. Lying in the middle of all of this were ancient egyptian ruins. The remains of a row of sphinx statues and columns covered in hieroglyphics. It was weird how out of place they seemed against the poverty stricken background. I found the temple and it was unbelievable. There were columns and statues and hieroglyphics everywhere. I wandered around for a bit listening to some of the english tours and taking pictures. Spent about an hour there and then headed back to town. Grabbed a bus ticket to dahab and stopped into the tourists office to make sure it was actually q bus ticket and ask how to get to the valley of the kings. Turns out I had to hire a cab for the day that would cost 100 pounds (like 15 dollars). I grabbed a cab by the nile and ended up getting a really nice guy. He put on a music station that played some hiphop and turned it up after I started singing along. He also had a red fuzzy klennex holder and some fake fur on his dash. Reminded me of the lyrics from the fresh prince of belair song. Haha. He took me to the valley of the kings and the guy inside told me which tombs were the best to see. We had to take a tram up the hill and once the guys who ran them realized I was alone I got 'VIP' treatment. This guy Alli put me in the front sear if his tram and then drove me up the hill (with no one else in the tram). I ended up meeting 2 Russian guys who asked me if I gad an isic card (I don't) and tagging along with them. We hit up the first tomb and it was basically just a passageway with colored hieroglyphics on the walls and an opening where the sarcophagus had been. All of the valuable things had been taken out and brought to the museum. One of the russian guys took some pictures inside the tomb and was immediately detained. He ended up deleting the pictures of his phone but they still wouldn't get it back. We went on to another tomb and after some serious language barriers I found out that one owned a bar and one owned an IT business. The last tomb was a little different, the sarcophagus was still in the tomb and the hieroglyphics were brighter with more gold. The russians were travelling with 2 friends and they ended up inviting me to come back with them to where they were staying. It ended up being pretty far away so I couldn't go if I wanted to make my bus at 4. I got reunited with my driver and he took me to the next stop, a temple. On the way he stopped and got both of us a water. He tried to talk to me but his english was only a little better than my arabic. He dropped me off at the temple and I went to explore. Again I got vip treatment, but this time they asked me to give them baksheesh, which I didn't. Haha. I checked out the temple and had a woman take my picture a couple of times. An american couple ended up coming over and volunteering to take some more pictures (I think they felt bad because I was a fellow american travelling alone). After that my driver took me to see some huge statues of a pharoh and his wife. I grabbed some pictures and then asked him to take me back to luxor so I could check out the temple there. He stopped in a little shop and got us both some ground up sugercane drink (which was delicious). After that he dropped me off at the temple and I paid him. Within 30 seconds I realized that I had left my purse in the cab. Shit! I kind of starting flipping out when a guy asked me what was wrong and took me to the tourist police. They asked if I remembered the numbers on the cab. I remembered my guy telling me but couldn't remember the numbers, I thought It was 405. I am such a dumbass!! Honestly who forgets their purse oin a cab in egypt. He raidoed some people and after what seemed like an eternity they told me that they had found my purse. I was sooo relieved. They brought my driver with them and made me check to make sure nothing was missing, of course nothing was, my driver was the nicest guy!! They let us all leave and I thanked everyone profusely!! By then I didn't even want to go to the luxor temple, I just wanted to relax. I walked over to mcdonalds (my american safehaven) got a shake and read my book until I had to grab the bus to dahab.

Mummies, Pyramids and Camels. Oh My!

So I arrived in Cairo and was really happy that I had arranged for the hostel to come pick me up!! There was a man waiting for me at the airport and he took me straight to the hostel. He pointed out some important landmarks along the way as we jammed out to some Bob Marley!! I had booked the Canadian Hostel and it ended up being pretty nice for how much I spent to stay there. I didn't end up doing much the first night, I was pretty exhausted so I passed out early!! The next day I met an american girl who was in the peace core in Botswana. It was soo nice to meet another american to chat with!! We had a nice Egyptian breakfast and then I headed out to try to see the pyramids. The plan was to take the bus to the pyramids. I ended up getting a little overwhelmed when I ventured out into Cairo. I didn't get harassed as much as I was expecting, but it was still more than I wanted. The men in Egypt have a tendency to hiss at you as you walk by. Its very annoying. Luckily I had adopted my policy of ignoring people from Bali and was pretty successful. I ended up checking out the Nile for a bit and then heading over to the Egyptian museum. It was really amazing! I got to check out all the things from King Tut's tomb and a whole bunch of mummies! I even tried to follow around an english tour group for a while and learned a little bit about the history. I had planned on checking out the pyramids but realized that there was no way I was going to find the bus to take me there and didn't really want to brave it on my own. I settled for the museum and decided to grab the metro to Ramses station to get my train ticket to Luxor. The metro was definately an experience! Not only did it take me about half an hour to figure out where I was going on the cars, they have seperate cars for women!! I went to get on and it was literally just a mob scene. All of the women just push until they get on the metro. At one point two women started screaming at each other in Arabic, it was unbelievable! I finally got to the train station and had just as much luck trying to get a ticket to Luxor. It took forever to figure out which line to get in! After that I headed over to Coptic Cairo, which was supposed to be the christian area of the city. I got out at Coptic Cairo and headed over to St. George's church. The church ended up having a cemetary attached that was pretty cool looking. After that I checked out one of the Jewish synagouge and latched onto another English speaking tour, from Georgia. It turns out that the alter is supposedly where the basket that moses floated down the river in was placed. After that I checked out the hanging church of Mary and got back on the hectice metro to head over to get some food at pizza hut!! It made me feel pretty good to listen to Hotel California and eat some delicious pizza away from all the hassle of the city! After that I headed back to the hostel to meet up with the American girl I had met earlier, Meghan. She had talked to a couple of the guys that ran the hostel and they decided to go out for the night, of course I decided to join. In the meantime I met another american girl who was travelling alone through asia and india, Sierra. She was planning on going to the pyramids the next day and we made plans to go together. I showed my train ticket to one of the guys at the hostel to see if it really said I had a train to Luxor, and he told me it was for poor people. I flipped out and thought that they had given me some sort of food stamps instead of a train ticket, but it just turns out that I donated 2 egyptian pounds to the poor and the acutal ticket was a little piece of paper they had given me. haha We went out to the Hard Rock Cafe, which turns out to be the hot spot in Egypt. The only place where you can drink and dance and not wear headscarfs. :) Two Canadians guys ended up going us as well and we had a pretty good time dancing to Arabic music and getting stared at! The next morning Sierra and I caught the metro (a little less hectic today) to Giza and then grabbed a taxi to the pyramids. We ended up renting camels for 2 hours to explore the area from a guy named Allie!! It turns out that he had two wives and a Greek girlfriend!! He ended up being a really good guide and took us around to see all the pyramids on our sweet camels. We got tons of pictures of the pyramids and ended up chatting about a whole bunch of things. Sierra had travelled to the most interesting places by herself and I just couldn't get over it! I was pretty jealous even though I had been travelling for 2 months. I added about 100 places to my list of places I want to go! After our camel tour we went to go check out the sphinx and get a closer look of the pyramids. they are amazing!! I don't know how they managed to construct these massive things but they are really impressive! After that we decided to explore the inside of one of the pyramids. It was pretty much just a collection of really cramped tunnels. At the top was an open room with a sarcophagus. The pyramids closed at 4 so Sierra and I stole some pyramid rocks and headed to search for some food. We walked around Giza for a bit and couldn't find anything to eat so we grabbed a cab to the train station hoping to find some places. By the time we got there we had our hearts set on Hardees and went searching for one. We finally found one and scarfed down as much delicious fast food as we could handle. We headed back to the train station so I could grab the train to Luxor and Sierra could grab the metro back to Cairo.

Chillin in the middle east

I can understand why people speak of the peace and serenity in bali. It is truly something I had never experienced before. All the streets smell like incense and the beauty of both the land and the temples is overwhelming. I think that the feeling is similar to the what you experience listening to the beatles when they started being influenced by eastern music and the sitar. I hope that I'm able to transfer this idea of serenity to my life. Anyway, I hopped on a plane from bali to Doha, Qatar. I flew Qatar airways and it was awesome!! They gave us tons of food and a night kit with a sleeping mask and toothpaste. I had a 8 hour layover in Qatar, a random country in the middle east. It was pretty much exactly what you would expect the middle east to look like. Lots of sand and tons of people in robes and head scarfs. I hung out for a bit trying to sleep. Qatar airways gave us free breakfast at the cafeteria!! I boarded my plane to Egypt and immediately realized I was the only woman not esorted by a man and not wearing a head scarf. It was pretty uncomfortable!! Anyway got fed again on the plane, watched the movie australia and arrived shortly after in Egypt. The first thing I ended up doing in Egypt was paying to use the bathroom. As it turns out anyone who does anything for you in Egypt expects a Baksheesh or a payment of some kind. (Even the bathroom staff). And if you don't give it to them they will demand it.

Kuta, Bali part II

I arrive in kuta for the second time!! I'm getting sick of the taxis honking at me so I decide to walk to the new arena hotel that one of the girls in australia told me about. It ended up being 200,000 rupiah a night. A little more than I wanted to pay but I was sick of walking!!! It ended up being a pretty nice hotel!! It had a gorgeous pool and a pool bar. It also had a pretty nice restaurant attached. Definately not bad for $16!! I got into my room and immediately took my first hot shower in days. It was amazing. I went for a swim and walked around a bit before deciding that if I was going to go out that night I would definately need a nap. I napped until about midnight and then dragged my butt out of bed. I headed for legian street where I had been told all the night clubs were. I stepped into a place called paddy's. There was tons of people dancing but I couldn't just join in. Haha. I'm completely uncoordinated and hadn't had anything to drink. I grabbed a beer and sat down in an open chair. There was another guy sitting at the table and struck up a convo. It turned out that he was australia and there with a bunch of fiends. I ended up meeting all of them and hitting it off pretty good. They eventually convinced me to start dancing and we didn't stop tl they kicked us out around 3. Haha. Well we decided to head to the place next door which was still kicking. We hung out there until aroind 4:30 when they closed and then they all invited me back for beers at their hotel. We didn't end up drinking any beers but I did borrow a pair of shorts and we swam until around 6 when we saw the sun start to come up. Lol. I decided it was time to head home to grab some sleep because I had a flight to catch out in the am. I walked back to my hotel at 6am sipping on a beer watching the sunrise in bali. Ridiculous!! haha. I slept until about 11 and then packed my stuff. Had breakfast, stored my stuff and booked a shuttle to the airport. I walked around for bit trying to take it all in. At around 3:30 I decided to have another massage at a place called kuta bungalows. I got a hot stone massage. It was awesome and the place was pretty nice. After that I got some authentic indonesian food and bought a book for the trip. I headed over to the beach and relaxed until the sunset. after that I headed back to the hotel to grab my shuttle to the airport.

Ubud, Bali

I had heard so much about bali being an absolutely beautiful country but it was hard to grasp while being hassled 24/7. As I had mentioned I decided to escape the main city of kuta and head north. I had booked a private taxi for the day for like $50 to drive me around for the day and end in ubud. The brochure said the drivers spoke english so I was pretty excited to have my own tour guide for the day. I woke up early to have some breakfast and pack my things. The car showed up and I explained to the guy in charge where I wanted to go (pretty much all over the island). He told me it was impossible to do all those places in a day and I ended up having to compromise (surprise surprise). We ended up kind of agreeing on a route and I climbed in with my driver. Of course it turned out that he spoke "english". About enough english to tell me what city we were in and point. Beautiful!! Another day with no one to talk to. Haha. Anyway we started heading north and stopped at a placed called tanah lot. It was an absolutely magnificant temple perched on a cliff over the ocean. It was amazing the way it spread over the entire landscape and met the ocean. Everything was green, there were plants and flowers everwhere. I walked around for a bit and began to understand the things I had heard about bali. I started to recognize the feeling of peace and serenity that seems to surround both the country and the culture. I am so glad I left the city to explore everything else that bali has to offer!! After visiting that temple we moved on to another one. I'm not sure of the name but it was inland. Impressive but not as awe-striking as the previous one. I climbed up one of the temple tower things and got a sweet view. After this we went to another temple, this one known as the elephant cave. It was called that because of this cave that supposedly looks like an elephant. I didn't really see the similarity. I had to put on a sarong before I entered this temple!! It was a pretty standard temple until you reached the lower level. This level didn't really have too many buildings or structures, but it was like a huge garden! It was really beautiful. It had a tree where the roots appeared to disappear into each other and it was hard to tell where one started and the other ended. To top it off there was a waterfall! After that we passed through a small woodcarving village. It was absolutely amazing to see what these individuals had made out of pieces of wood. Complex and detailed pieces of art. It vlew my mind that they were just sitting along the road, it seemed that if they had been in the states they would be in art galleries or in front of peoples homes. It seemed as though almost everyone in bali was an artist and had a talent fo making beautiful pieces of art (while going largely unrecognized)!! Out next stop was yet another temple. This one also required a sarong (which was provided at the entrance). It was amazing how each temple seemed to be unique. This one had a place for people to pray in the water, sarongs and all. Most of the indonesian people gathered below foutains and prayed. In another pool there were bright orange colored fish. At ome point I asked an woman is she would take my picture.I'm not sure what nationality she was but she wore a headscarf. She did but then one of the girls she was with wanted a picture with me. I didn't have a problem with that even though it was kind of weird seeing as they didn't even know my name. Well one thing led to another and their guide ended up telling me that if I didn't mind they all wanted their picture with me. It was really weird!! I felt like some kind of celebrity as all these peopole lined up to take a picture with me. Haha. So somewhere out there are like 25 poctures of me with random women. (One woman even got her son in the pic). Lol. I finally escaped and headed back to the car!! The next stop was Mt Bafur, which is supposed to give an excellent view of a volcano in the backdrop. I'm not sure if it was particularly foggy that day or if you can't ever really see the volcano, but I definately couldn't!! I had an italian man take my pic anyway. He pretended to run away with my camera (NOT funny). He's lucky he stopped running because I honestly would have run him down and tackled him. Lol. At this point it started to rain, abd by rain I mean absolutely pour. We stopped at the temple beside the mountain and I walked around for a couple of minutes but it really wasn't that great in the pouring rain! I got back in the car and he started to drive me to what was considered the most important temple. Along the way there were tons of rice paddies, which are gorgeous. They are terraced layers of completely green rice surrounded by water. It really is an amazing site! Along the way I got to see how balinese people trully lived. For the most part the houses were very poor and reminisent of fiji. At one point we passed a group of girls bathing in a nearby creek. Another interesting thing was that the women carry absolutely everything imaginable on their heads! It doesn't matter how big it is. They just wrap a towel around their head and put whatever they want to carry on top. I also forgot to tell you about the motorbikes and mopeds. They are absolutely everywhere and definately contribute to the free for all that is driving in bali. I'm told the legal age to drive is 17 but the youngest person I saw driving a motorbike was probably about 7. They are everywhere!! Anyway, while driving along I also saw a father and 5 children on one motorbike. I honestly don't know how they all stayed on!! We reached the temple and the driver ended up half telling and half signaling to me that I would need a sarong. I ended up bartering for one for like $4. This temple also required that you 'donate' in order to enter. When I finally got to the temple I was further informed that I would not be allowed to go inside unless I had a guide because some ceremony was going on, which of course cost more money. Haha. I got one anyway. It was an unbelievable temple and I'm glad I got a guide. It was nice to have someone there to tell me about the temple and the gods that were worshipped. The higlight of the temple trip was when he invited me to pray with the 'priest'. We sat cross legged in front of the altar and were each given a traditional basket with flower pedals in it. It turned out that each flower had a meaning and had to be held in your hands while you prayed. I can't remember what all of them were for but one was definately for luck. At the end I had to drink the holy wayer and then they stuck rice on my forehead. I also had the pleasant experience of using a bathroom, which of course I had to pay for. There was no where to flush either. After that temple my driver man and I headed towards ubud. Before dropping me off he took a detour up to where the most beautiful rice terrace was. Of course my camera died so I couldn't take any pictues but I'm guessing it extended about 6 stories down into a valley. It was amazing to see!! Anyway after that he took me to ubud to hunt down a place to stay. I had read about this guest house called teba house online and asked him to take me there. It ended up being booked but they took me to the uncles place doen the road. I got a room for really cheap, 80,000 rupiahs or like $7. It was actually pretty nice too! No hot water but the view was really pretty and it had two beds (not that I needed them) but good for the price. It was a walk into town so I got rid of my bags and figured I'd head in and check out the nightlife. It was literally non existent. There were a bunch of people out but it was mostly couples or groups. I got the feeling ubud was a place you came to relax as a couple. It ended up being a pretty lonely night. :( I bought another converter and had some desert at a nice restaurant to cheer myself up. It ended up being really good, but after that I was out of ideas. I headed back to my room and passed out. I had planned to get up early the next day to go to the monkey forest and maybe the elephant park. I also decided to head back to kuta that day, ubud was a little too lonely for me. I got up to find it pouring!!! I had my coffee with some peanut butter and btead and relaxed while I waited for it to stop. One of the guys who worked there came over and chatted with me for a bit and then it finally started to let up. I headed out to the monkey forest. There were really monkeys all over the place!! it was a pretty cool temple too and I spent about an hour exploring and hanging out with the monkeys. After that I wanted to head to the elephant park. I told this to the guy at the guesthouse and he brought me to his friend, a kinda travel guy. He offered to take me on his minibike for like 50,000 rupiah. I objected at first because I thought my bag was too big for his bike but he persisted. We picked up my bag from the guesthouse and headed out. He stopped at his house, where he decided my bag was in fact too big. Haha. I called the elephant place because the advertised shuttles. No such luck. I ended up grabbing a cab, I figured I could grab a shuttle back to kuta from the elephant park, this was also untrue. Haha. I paid to see the elephants, and got some good pics. It was way too expensive to ride them though, even to sit on them for a picture. Even though I had been told I could. Oh well. After that I had to grab a cab back to ubud and then take a shuttle to kuta!!

Kuta, Bali

I arrived in denpasar midday and grabbed a cab into town. I hadn't booked anywhere to stay but had heard of some good places. I got into the cab and told the driver to take me there. he asked if I had reservations and I said no. Mistake number 1!! He ended up taking me to his friends place so I could see the rooms. They were nice enough and I talked him down to $24 which seemed reasonable It turned out that this was twicw as much as I should have paid and pretty far from the main part of town. I decided to go explore the city and find somewhere else to stay for the next night. The streets were filled with people trying to sell you something. They would hassle you like crazy, promising a good price. I walked down towards the beach and up and down two of the main streets, poppies 1 and poppies 2. I eventually found one of the hotels I was looking for and it was a third of the price of the other one. I booked a room for the next night and wandered back towards my hotel. I spent the night trying to figure out what I would do for the next couple of days and ended up passing out pretty early at like 7. Lol. The next morning I relaxed and got some breakfast. It was delivered to the patio outside my room. Sweet!! For the rest of the morning I walked around a little more, checking out the mall and the beach.I also wanted to check out the local temple. In bali all of the people set out offerings in baskets made of plants. In each of them is a small offering of flowers and incense. As a result the whole city smells of incense, it seems to give a relaxed hippy feeling, despite the constant hassling. The temple is absolutely beautiful! It really is the epitome of southeast asian culture. I checked it out a bit and watched.a couple local women place their offerings at the temple. After that I headed back to my room to grab my stuff. Luckily I was getting the hang of ignoring the hassling and the correct answers to the constant questions. If I wore a hat, sunglasses and didn't smile I got bugged way less. (A pretty hard feat seeing as I usually smile 100% of the time). "Is this your first time in bali". Correct answer: No I've been here 6 times. "Are you travelling alone: No my boyfriend is at the hotel taking a nap" haha. And of course "Are you married: YES". Lol. Anyway, I successfull grabbed my stuff and a taxi and switched rooms. This room was just as nice as the other one had been. Grabbed a burger for lunch which was only like $2 or 25,000 rupiahs. Bartered for some sweet gifts for my mom and heather, went for a swim, hung out on the beach, and shower up for a night out. On the way out I attempt to plug in my camera and drop my converter on the floor!! I try to piece ot back together with pretty much no luck. I try to plug it in and then it immediately sparks and the room goes dark!! I clearly blew a fuse. Haha. Turns out no one goes out until at least 1am in bali. I decided to take a nap until then. Of course I couldn't get my butt out of bed when my alarm went off at 1 so I just slept til the am. I had arranged a car to take me around for the day wherever I wanted. The plan was to end in ubud and stay there for the night.