Amed
Amed was just what we needed. We arrived a little weary from our public transport experience and we shuffled to a hotel, not the hotel we asked the driver to take us to, near the start of town. The manager came out and invited us to take a look. Stuff like this happens all the time. The rooms turned out to be two story cottages set in a lush garden with a fresh water pool. After a little haggling we got the price down to a comfortable $8 a night and settled in with a coffee before exploring the town. The ‘exploration’ took about 15 minutes. Amed is about 9 km long, but the main town is three streets with a general store and a few restaurants. Our hotel was across the street from quiet a black sand beach lined with little fishing boats. We spent three nights in Amed and went diving again one of the days. One of the dives was in the American freighter Liberty; sunk by the Japanese in WWII. It was covered in coral and packed with bright fish and other wild life. It was nice to sit around and do nothing for a while. We have gotten pretty spoiled with that. Anyway, after a few days we were ready to move on and took an 11 hour trip to Gili Meno off shore of Lombok.
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