Padangbai

We are now in Padangbai, with a room in a hotel just beside the beach. We travelled here yesterday from Amed where we spent a week and did a lot of snorkelling and 7 scuba dives. The second hotel we stayed in there was very good for us, a very very quiet village, right on a good sandy beach for snorkelling (coral 2-3 metres out from the shore), some inexpensive restaurants, dive centre next door etc.


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Padangbai is not close to as nice, but it's ok for a day or two. It's mainly a port where boats go to Lombok, and I doubt anyone stays here for more than a couple of days. We had no accomodation booked and looked at 5 places when we got here and chose the most suitable. Much of the places we saw are small rooms for backpackers and we need something a bit larger and comfortable.

Since there's not much to do here, today is a "rest day" (haha!) We're now in a nice cafe at the quiet end of the beach, called the Topi Inn, and the girls are writing postcards while we do some reading.

Tomorrow morning we go to Sanur which starts to bring us into the busier south of Bali.