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Bali Pictorial
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 23 April 2012
Those who know us well – especially fellow nomads – have expressed surprise that we spent so much time in Bali, a destination they associate with package tourism and sprawling resorts. In all honesty, I avoided Bali on my first trip to Indonesia ignorantly dismissing the island as little more than tourist central. But guess [...]
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Tulamben Underwater Pictorial
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 21 November 2011
As Thomas mentioned in his piece on independent diving in Tulamben, one of our major goals during our 14 dives here was to practice our underwater photography skills. We spent hours exploring every inch of the U.S.S. Liberty as well as the neighboring sites of Coral Garden and the Drop-Off. We sat at 25 meters [...]
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Shooting Pygmy Seahorses
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 16 November 2011
While we were in the Philippines diving off the tiny island of Malapascua, we were introduced to one of the weirdest and most wonderful miracles of evolution, the pygmy seahorse. Due to the fact that our underwater camera had been lost in an accident off of Verde Island, we were unable to photograph (or rather [...]
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Independent Diving in Tulamben
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 13 November 2011
When we heard from other travelers that Tulamben was a great place to dive independently without a costly guide, we were thrilled to say the least. For a while now, we have wanted to “waste” some dives to practice our underwater skills, especially our underwater photography skills. But the high cost of diving has so [...]
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The U.S.S. Liberty
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 8 November 2011
In 1942, the U.S.S. Liberty was struck by a torpedo from a Japanese submarine. Two US destroyers attempted to accompany the damaged boat to a port in Singaraja, Bali, but when it became clear that the boat was taking on too much water, it was intentionally grounded on the shores of tiny Tulamben where the [...]
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Loving Tulamben
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 6 November 2011
New two-month Indonesian visas in hand, we’re back in Bali and this time we’ve come up to the northeastern corner of the island to do more diving. In contrast to the traffic-ridden mini-Los Angeles that has formed in the southern part of the island, little Tulamben is a breath of fresh air. (Literally.) And the [...]
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The Sunday Six: Places to Stay in Bali that Aren’t Kuta
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 31 July 2011
Bedugul Sitting by an open fire in the evening and picking your own strawberries in the morning is not what most people associate with Bali. Which is precisely why you...
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