Travel · 28 September 2025
Bangkok - Zurich - Basel
From Bangkok to Zurich: a very calm night flight without sleep, the Alps in the morning light above the clouds and the train back to Basel.
In September 2025 we spent a good two weeks on Bali and Lombok. We started in Amed in the east of Bali, with trips to rice terraces, Mount Agung and the water palace Tirta Gangga, and then moved on to Ubud.
We took the ferry across to Lombok, saw sea turtles while snorkelling, went to the Gili Islands and visited beaches in the south of the island. For trips on the spot we always rented a scooter, and for longer distances with suitcases we booked a car with a driver. The posts of this trip are collected here, day by day.
Travel · 28 September 2025
From Bangkok to Zurich: a very calm night flight without sleep, the Alps in the morning light above the clouds and the train back to Basel.
Travel · 27 September 2025
From Lombok via Jakarta to Bangkok: a false Flightradar alarm, fried bananas, Thai Airways and spicy curry sauces on the journey home.
Travel · 26 September 2025
By scooter to Bukit Merese near Kuta Lombok: monkeys, empty beaches, bruschetta at the villa and a private cooking class for Nasi Goreng.
Travel · 24 September 2025
From the crowded surfer beach Selong Belanak to a secluded beach in South Lombok: dirt path, water buffalos, a Bindenwaran, drone flight and Nasi Goreng.
Travel · 23 September 2025
Hotel change to South Lombok, with tobacco plantations, a weaving village where Annina sits at the loom herself, mango, jackfruit and sunset at the new hotel.
Travel · 22 September 2025
Snorkelling at Gili Meno and Gili Air with three big sea turtles, then fresh coconuts, a sunset in front of Mount Agung and good food.
Travel · 21 September 2025
By scooter to the Turtle Sanctuary at Nipah Beach, six turtles while snorkelling, starfish on the hotel reef and a fisherman in the evening light.
Travel · 20 September 2025
By car from Ubud to Padang Bai, by fast ferry via Gili Trawangan to Lombok, and in Medana to the most beautiful hotel with an infinity pool on the beach.
Travel · 19 September 2025
A day at the hotel near Ubud: breakfast, garden, pool, gym, good food, reading and editing photos, with a partly cloudy sky and 29 degrees.
Travel · 18 September 2025
Breakfast at the hotel, the Monkey Forest with a macaque in a tree, Annina shopping in pouring rain and dinner back at the hotel.
Travel · 17 September 2025
In a yellow car from Amed to Ubud: Bakpao on the way, a coffee plantation with Luwak, a tangle of cables on a pole and a hotel in Tegallalang like a dream.
Travel · 16 September 2025
Snorkelling with locals in Amed: sea turtles, corals, lots of fish and an underwater temple, then a beer at the locals' home.
Travel · 15 September 2025
Sunrise at Mount Agung, the water palace Tirta Gangga with a forgotten scooter key, the Maha Ganga Valley and bruschetta for dinner.
Travel · 14 September 2025
We learn to make silver rings, eat fried banana at the rice terraces and take our scooter up a wild road for sunset.
Travel · 13 September 2025
Arriving on Bali: from I Gusti Ngurah Rai airport we drive to Amed by car, past rice fields, and our first hotel has a pool waiting for us.
Travel · 12 September 2025
Suitcases packed, take-off in Zurich and landing in Doha at 38 degrees: the first travel day to Bali leads via a stopover in Qatar.