After a 'western' style breakfast of mixed fruit porridge. We left the guest house to explore the local area. Most people seem to hire small automatic scooters/ motorbikes to get around the island but ... not us! Yesterday, a young man came back to the guesthouse with a motorcycle injury and had to pay a visit to the medical centre to be bandaged up. We've seen so many people with motorbike injuries, so we played it safe and walked!
The landscape is stunningly beautiful. The island has a high mountainous interior, covered in dense jungle. It is surrounded by a beautiful lake and populated with a few friendly locals. Farming seems to be a source of income for the local people in addition to tourism. We watched as people tended their crops, dried out their corn and busily went about their daily chores. Well, busily may be the wrong word. Time really doesn't matter much here, there is no rushing for anything!
We stopped in a local cafe with a wonderful view over the lake. We spotted avocado juice on the menu and asked the owner if she could add a squirt of chocolate sauce. She very kindly did and we had sensational avocado and chocolate shakes! We are becoming addicted to these and they taste great, although sound fairly awful!
We continued past a very pretty church but turned back as the road disappeared into the jungle. By now we were getting a little peckish so we made our way back for lunch.
The afternoon was spent relaxing on the guesthouse balcony, sipping tea with sugar. We never have sugar at home but it appears to be the norm everywhere in Asia and were now so used to it!
Our evening was spent socialising with other travelling folk staying at the guesthouse and eating pork curry with mashed potato!
The landscape is stunningly beautiful. The island has a high mountainous interior, covered in dense jungle. It is surrounded by a beautiful lake and populated with a few friendly locals. Farming seems to be a source of income for the local people in addition to tourism. We watched as people tended their crops, dried out their corn and busily went about their daily chores. Well, busily may be the wrong word. Time really doesn't matter much here, there is no rushing for anything!
We stopped in a local cafe with a wonderful view over the lake. We spotted avocado juice on the menu and asked the owner if she could add a squirt of chocolate sauce. She very kindly did and we had sensational avocado and chocolate shakes! We are becoming addicted to these and they taste great, although sound fairly awful!
We continued past a very pretty church but turned back as the road disappeared into the jungle. By now we were getting a little peckish so we made our way back for lunch.
The afternoon was spent relaxing on the guesthouse balcony, sipping tea with sugar. We never have sugar at home but it appears to be the norm everywhere in Asia and were now so used to it!
Our evening was spent socialising with other travelling folk staying at the guesthouse and eating pork curry with mashed potato!
