Waterfalls and Hot Springs

Today we woke up, packed, and walked to the end of the road to catch the bus to Moni. It was a small mini bus, so a little cramped but it was nice to take local transport.

Walking to the main road

Cocoa beans drying on the road

Digging on the road

Locals on a van

Chris and I

Rod and Isa at the back of the bus

Chris and I

When we arrived in Moni we walked around for a while before finding some cheap accommodation which we had to haggle hard for before going for a nice long walk in the early evening for a few hours to a Waterfall and then to some hot springs.

Preparing to walk the bridge

The hot springs- aka- a burst pipe

The waterfall

Rice fields

Hot springs- aka baths

Cute kid

Locals

They weren’t exactly what we expected them to look like, considering all the locals were bathing in them and they didn’t look that hot either?!

Nice view

Local woman

In the evening we went for a local dinner (Mountain food), the ingredients had to be gathered from the Mountain in the afternoon. It consisted of local rice cooked in a strange leaf, Banana flower and other Mountain vegetable mixed and an amazing vegetable soup, which was smokey as the veg, had been roasted on a fire beforehand. VERY tasty and nice to have something different.

written by

chrischarly on June 10, 2011 from Gunung Kelimutu, Indonesia

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Passage through SE Asia

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