Amed

We were heading for Amed. We had read about the good (black sand) beaches there and quiet vibe. Sounded just the thing after hectic Ubud. We were so sick of being hassled everywhere we went.

We were charged 3 dollars each to enter the town of Amed. Is that legal? The official tickets seemed to indicate that they actually have permission to charge tourists to enter a town. That was the second time we had experienced that. With Made we drove to a road where we could look at a volcano and were charged an “entrance tax”.















After a lot of driving, we wanted to find somewhere to stay right away. After looking a few crummy, dark dilapidated places, we finally found a lovely place called Apa Kabar Villas (homepage). Unfortunately, it was very expensive. We managed to negotiate a deal and spent the next 20 hours or so in Amed. Across the sea we could see Lombok only at sunrise where we could make out the outline of Rinjani. It was funny to think that we were up Rinjani 11 days ago. We remembered looking across the sea to Bali from Sengigi beach on Lombok – only visible at sunset.















It was nice to stay somewhere where there were real actually flesh and blood guests. There are 12 villas and about 8 are occupied.