On this 17th day, fatigue is making itself felt, so we took the time to hang around this morning and only left almost mid-afternoon, heading due south, towards the tip of Bali, more precisely on the Bukit peninsula. Arriving at the temple we wanted to visit, we took the time to eat in a restaurant located right next to the ticket office where you pay for access to the parking lot. The temple in question is the Pura Luhur Uluwatu, a temple that was founded in the XNUMXth century by a Javanese priest.
When we entered the parking lot was relatively full (from where we were eating, we could see the incessant coming and going of vehicles), especially since we arrived at the end of the afternoon and people came in numbers to see the sunset.
At the entrance, same story, we are entitled to a sarong and the fabric to put around the waist, we are warned to be careful of the monkeys (macaques in this case) that swarm in the area and who especially have the nasty habit of stealing objects even in your bag. Officially, people wearing glasses like me are therefore asked to put them away.
But as it is quite unpleasant not to wear glasses (and therefore to see blurry) I continued to wear them... Until the monkeys in question came to tickle me too closely, I decided to put them wisely in my bag (which I also had to watch over, even on my back).
For our part, nothing will be missing, but other tourists will pay the price, a pen, a pair of glasses (what was I saying...), a bottle of water or even a sandal (which the unfortunate man will finally get back after the guides, knowing the habits of the monkeys, managed to take it back from him) among other things will have been snatched during a small moment of inattention.
Knowing that the temple itself, perched on the edge of the cliff (hence the interesting sunset) was not actually accessible to the public... We only had access to the park in front and the edge of the cliff with a small path built just at the edge.
After that we went back to the hotel to wash and change in order to enjoy a “romantic” walk, fresh and clean on ourselves, on the beach of Jimbaran whose “official” access is not easy to find, because there is not really one. You have to either go through a hotel or through a whole group of restaurants, which between us is worse than Thailand and frankly abused…
But we found a passage, if you are on the road to Jimbaran, you will see a road going towards the sea see map below (there is a kind of brand new hotel visible under construction on the map):
Following this road of “Jalan Bukit Permai” there is when arriving towards the sea, a parking lot on your right, generally crowded once the evening comes, because popular, the parking lot is used for the restaurants backing onto the beach (Nyoman Cafe, Menaga Cafe etc.).
The car park is just before a 90 degree turn on the left, just in this turn, between the car park on the right (and their restaurants facing the sea) and a small restaurant on the left (marked on the Jimbaran Beach Club map), there is a “free” passage to go to the beach, otherwise a little further after a small bridge there is a hole in the fence (sic!) allowing access to the beach…
