Camping out

M. and I spent the last two days walking around Taman Bali Barat National Park (near Gillimanuk). We had to hire a guide, Yanto, would led us through a bunch of different forests. We saw an evergreen forest, a monsoon forest, a savanna, and a rain forest -- which wasn't very green since we are in the middle of the dry season. A big bonus is that we got to spend the night camping in the savanna for a night!


Yanto also pointed out many animals to us. We encountered macaques once again; luckily, this time they ran away from us instead of towards us like they did in Ubud! We also saw black monkeys, a very large squirrel that looked more like an red panda with a really long tail, a few deer, a snake without a head (an eagle had just eaten it) that still moved about, and quite to my distress Yanto saw a wild boar! (Luckily I didn't spot it, though I did hear it wandering around.)


The hike ended on the second day around lunch time at a lovely Balinese Hindu temple. From Gillimanuk we took a bus to Lovina, on the north side of Bali.