Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Scooters!

If you are ever leaning to drive a scooter or a car I don't recommend learning in a third world country where there is no speed limit and no actual cops that patrol the roads, so that means it's a free for all at every intersection. Over the past few days my brother, dad and I have been driving around on scooters. When we were driving about on scooters on the coast it was nice there was not traffic and not very many cars. But in the town of Ubud it's a whole different story.

In our travels across the world in many third world countries we have noticed that one of the biggest problems is the traffic. Overall in Vietnam it was the worst. At almost every intersection there was mass chaos with cars and bikes going in every direction.

In Ubud it wasn't as bad as Vietnam but it wasn't easy. You have to concentrate on not driving into the other lane, not falling off your scooter, not driving off the road when a hulking truck creeps up behind you and honks his overly loud horn 5 feet away from you, and did I mention you have to drive on the left side of the road in Bali. So that just makes it 100% better

  It was super fun because we got to explore the real Bali and drive through rice fields. And driving just for the fun of it supercalifragilisticexpialidotious, as Bella would say. Five days later we drove back to Denpasar and flew back to Singapore because 3 days later we had to fly to London.

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