Hi again,
For everyone who replied to my JBR post wanting to know about secret garden inn its website is www.secretgarden-inn.com its behind secret garden restaurant but run by different people. It's not a five star resort... but it is a comfortable quiet place that is good value for money. I have stayed at other hotels in Poppies 1 and 2 and find secret garden a nice quiet private place with no drunk yobbos (no offence - I just like my sleep).
For log65 the trip to Lovina is sealed roads all the way and when you are going around mountains there is a guard rail to prevent you falling over the side. It is a beautiful trip - but long 4hrs. The only time we went off a sealed road was the 10 minute drive from the main road to my sponsor childs village - and that was a full on four wheel drive track! But no mountains to fall off there either!
I couldn't believe how dry the ground was in his village. The guide says they don't get much rain there. The ground looks like Sydney at the moment and all the plants along the side of the road were brown and shrivelled. Hard to beleive there is a place so brown in Bali.
Sorry to anyone who didn't read my JBR I am replying to questions from it but it is too far down the list now to reply to it.
Melanie