White Water Rafting

March 12th
Well, today was my last day in Bali and my flight wasn't leaving until late in the evening, so I wanted to make the most of my day. My taxi guy from the other day suggested that I go white water rafting, which is something that I've always wanted to do, and didn't do it in New Zealand because it was so expensive. Well, the rafting here was for 2 1/2 hours in the river and it cost me $24 which included a pick up, an amazing lunch, the rafting, and drop off back at the hotel! What a steal.

The drive up was amazing, where we seemed to climb higher and higher into the mountains, through local villages. The drive in itself was worth the price I paid, but I did start to feel a bit queasy along the way.

The rafting itself was amazing---there were 2 guys from Aussie, myself and Fidel, plus our raft guide who was great! My only problem was that the scenery was so damn beautiful, I kept forgetting to paddle because I was so busy looking up!

The other problem was when the guide said "Paddle, forward" I thought he meant the people in the front needed to paddle, and when he hollered "Paddle, back" that it was my turn to paddle. Needless to say about half way down the river I realized that we were all supposed to be paddling in the direction he said, "forward" or "backwards." OOPS.

I just couldn't help that I was totally mesmerized by the rice fields, local farmers working with their machetes, palm trees, coconut and cocoa trees, waterfalls. I was so excited that I had my first white water rafting experience in Bali! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get too many pics while rafting because I didn't want to ruin my camera, but we did stop at a waterfall and took a few pics there!