Geocaching in Bali
Geocaching in Bali
My first trip there and I was wondering why there were only 2 caches in Bali.
My question was soon answered! So many people! We decided because of our limited time to attempt the Bali Bull cache at Ujung Palace. This is a little known spot and quite an awesome sight and some 60km from Kuta where we were staying.
Our driver was a heck of a character with a great sense of humour. He insisted he had given a ride to an Aussie some weeks back that had a gps with street level maps of Bali?????
My magellan sprotrak color insisted we spent all our holiday at sea, I would be very interested in a Bali map unless he was pulling my leg...
Unfortunately 45 minutes of dense jungle and searching every inch of GZ and way beyond it seemed apparent the cache is no more. I have let the owners know and they will be returning there in August.
Wayan, our driver helped search enthusiatically and declared finally someone had played a great joke on me and what sort of idiot travels in near unbearable humidity for 3 1/2 hours to find a non existent treasure.
The area is well worth the visit and well on the way to Bali's other cache. Anyone heading there is welcome to our driver's number as he knows the area well.
The View over Ujung
The Bull and I
PS. I see a find has been logged but they did not have the site notes, so the bucket with the blue lid is still AWOL. I logged a DNF....next time!
My question was soon answered! So many people! We decided because of our limited time to attempt the Bali Bull cache at Ujung Palace. This is a little known spot and quite an awesome sight and some 60km from Kuta where we were staying.
Our driver was a heck of a character with a great sense of humour. He insisted he had given a ride to an Aussie some weeks back that had a gps with street level maps of Bali?????
My magellan sprotrak color insisted we spent all our holiday at sea, I would be very interested in a Bali map unless he was pulling my leg...
Unfortunately 45 minutes of dense jungle and searching every inch of GZ and way beyond it seemed apparent the cache is no more. I have let the owners know and they will be returning there in August.
Wayan, our driver helped search enthusiatically and declared finally someone had played a great joke on me and what sort of idiot travels in near unbearable humidity for 3 1/2 hours to find a non existent treasure.
The area is well worth the visit and well on the way to Bali's other cache. Anyone heading there is welcome to our driver's number as he knows the area well.
The View over Ujung
The Bull and I
PS. I see a find has been logged but they did not have the site notes, so the bucket with the blue lid is still AWOL. I logged a DNF....next time!
Nice pics!
Few caches in Bali because you rule out vacation Caches and see how many local people can afford a GPSr on an average income of USD$810 per annum (2003)
It's a luxury we uber-weathy can afford along with the time to spend caching!
Went to Nepal last year and there was only 3 caches in the whole country. GNI there is under USD$200pa!
Few caches in Bali because you rule out vacation Caches and see how many local people can afford a GPSr on an average income of USD$810 per annum (2003)
It's a luxury we uber-weathy can afford along with the time to spend caching!
Went to Nepal last year and there was only 3 caches in the whole country. GNI there is under USD$200pa!
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perhaps the imaginary friends could perform the maintenance:
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There's at least two other active caches in Bali. One at Tanah Lot (on the west coast) and the other on a mountain top at Bedugal (in the centre of the island). Try them out next time you head over there. The one at Bedugal is a great hike, and on a fine day the view from the top will be unsurpassed.
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As the cache owner I will be going back in August with a certain well known SA cacher! I am still at a loss as to why so few people have tried to find it given the magnificent place it is at.aloysius wrote:perhaps the imaginary friends could perform the maintenance:
this caches owner wrote: ":D When I put the cache in Bali they would only approve it if I could prove that it could be maintained. Acouple of white lies fixed that. They want to know that a local will be maintaining it. Good luck. "
Tanah lot is a great cache because of where it is and the ingenious hide which is muggle unfriendly.
I found the Tanah Lot Cache either muggled or destroyed (i'm betting on the second) and it was basically lucky i had a container with me that i could replace. I think with vacation caches like that - it kind of relies on the kindness of visitors - making them everyones responsibility (that is if we want them to stay there).
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Mind that cliff while yer there tho.....
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Mind that cliff while yer there tho.....
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The cliff is what made it interesting and almost in view of a lot of muggles. The views around there are amazing especially at night. Of all the caches I have done this one stands out the most.elmofreak wrote:I found the Tanah Lot Cache either muggled or destroyed (i'm betting on the second) and it was basically lucky i had a container with me that i could replace. I think with vacation caches like that - it kind of relies on the kindness of visitors - making them everyones responsibility (that is if we want them to stay there).
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If you were the first dnf - then there is no guarentee the cache isn't still there and you just looked in all the wrong places - in the case of Tanah-Lot - i found the obvious remnants of the destroyed cache in-situ so a) i knew the cache had been destroyed and b) i knew where the cache was supposed to be placed - so i was able to happily go in and fix it. In the case of simply not finding it - there isn't much you can do:D
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