Bali Nightlife

So, you are probably thinking that all we have been doing these days is diving. Well, you would be right--mostly, but only for a few days. We did our last dives on Tuesday and decided to have a fun night out on the town with some of the friends we had made while diving here in Bali. We stayed in Kuta on Tuesday night which is the center of tourism here in Bali and where all of the nightlife is located, so we had no excuse to not go out. One of our Balinese dive masters agreed to take Julie and Moo (our new Thai friends), Angie (a Brazilian girl we met diving on Tuesday), and Kendall and me to dinner and around to the clubs.

After a fun dinner we made a quick visit to "ground zero," the site of the bombings at the Kuta nightclubs in 2002. The have erected a nice memorial with the names and countries of all the people that died in the blast. Then, we headed just down the street to the area that all of the clubs have moved since the blast.

At our first stop, there was a live band playing some local music and after just one drink the girls decided they should get on stage to dance with the band.

After a round of drinks, we decided to move to the club proper. Inside we found the guy featured in the video below. I swear that this will most likely be Nick someday--living in a villa in Bali and going to the night club to "dance." If I had had the courage to follow this guy around with the camera for longer this could have been You Tube material for sure.

Even thought we were all pretty much exhausted from all the diving we ended up staying at the club for about 4 hours until 2AM. The pictures below pretty much tell the story.

Once we finally decided to leave, we started to walk Wayan (our dive master, who, it turned out, was the most drunk of us all) home. On our way, Kendall and Julie decided to join in on a jam session that was taking place on the sidewalk outside of a liquor store on some back road in Kuta around 2:30AM. It was really a multicultural experience--the two girls were Norwegian, one guy was Filipino, the others were Indonesian, and then Kendall and Julie made an American and a Thai.

After getting Wayan, Julie, and Moo into a cab, Kendall and I finally got back to our hotel around 3AM. Definitely one of our latest nights of the trip.

The next day we woke up and headed to Ubud for two days. Hopefully, I will be able to convince Kendall to leave the beach chair for just a few minutes to blog about it tomorrow. Otherwise, you may just get to hear from me again.