| Senggigi to Maroak | |||||
| Date: | 04-10-2014 | Time: |
05:02 h |
Σ Time: | 217:22 h |
| Distance: | 108 km | Σ km: | 4337 km | Temp: | 10/36 °C |
| Up: | 1168 m | Σ Up: | 53506 m | Down: | 1159 m |
| Calories: | 2073 kcal | Σ kcal: | 102269 kcal | ||
| Conditions: | All day along the north coast. Very scenic | ||||
The coastal road is very scenic. A thousand hidden beaches, all different awake in the morning sun. The evening rain the day before had washed away the dust and all plants where shining even more colorful than before. I was riding ‘sweep’ with Andreas. Only 108km today, thus a relaxed day, at least for me. We did a short offroad trip to the steep cliffs. Passing through a village I heard real good drum music. I stopped and pulled over to the other side of the street and was immediately invited to join the ‘party’. A family was celebrating something, I could not find out what exactly, but the whole village was obviously invited. Vegetables and meat was cooking in large kettles and open fires and men and women were busy preparing more food. Soon Andreas found me and we both spent about half an hour to listen to the drumming and have kopi (coffee) and small talks. 40km into the day and already 3 hours passed. Time to make some speed and cover the remaining distance to lunch. After lunch the colorful ride continued. Red chili was being dried on foils along the road. The final 10 km to camp I took an alternate route that was displayed on my Garmin. Instead of staying on the main road I decided to make a left turn through the village and follow a secondary road along the coast. This road soon turned into a bad dirt and gravel road, but through a very scenic urban area. Some local ‘boys’ on there motorcycles wanted to convince me, that the road does not lead me to where I want, but I insisted to believe my Garmin map and continued through fertile fields, banana plantations and lava rock terraces. Buffalos, cows and goats were already in the stables or still grassing on the fields. Women were returning from work carrying tools and goods on their head, before I arrived in our basic camp with amazing good food. While we had dinner, to men were busy to rewire the electric installation to get our rooms electrified.
Lombok: Ferry Port to Senggigi
Did you go scuba biking at 50k?