The drive was rejuvenating and made me feel the excitement of travel after the last few weeks of big cities and the same old town/market scene. Eastern Bali accomplished the long sought after rainy rice field view I had been dreaming about every time I thought about traveling to SE Asia. Maybe the main image that I think of when thinking of SE Asia is the flooded terraced rice field and on this 3 hour Uber ride I saw everything I had been dreaming of. Bali finally got its full day of rain (after a very low average rain for the "rainy season") and it happened to be the time we are swerving through the slolem (as our driver called it) switchbacks heading to the coast. The beauty of the fields was only amplified by the downpour of rain with the view being completed by the volcano peeking though the clouds in the background. This was the first drive since Thailand that had me childlike with my face pressed against the window and recording the entire scene in short snapchat videos. 

We checked out of the Radisson and got an Uber to take us up north to Ubud...once the driver realized how far the trip was he changed his mind and dropped us off at a McDonald's to order another Uber. After some Ice-cream, we got a driver to take us the rest of the way. It was a pretty interesting drive full of cement monument/structure stores and narrow roads.

We've Landed! After an insanely long final day in Singapore (we miss you Singapore) we have finally made it to Bali. Our flight was at 5am so we pulled an all nighter and left for the airport at 2am. The flight was horribly uncomfortable but luckily only lasted 2.5 hours. After flying over some beautiful volcanos and beaches (*HINT* Sit on the right hand side of the plane flying from Singapore to Bali, learned this from people we met at the hostel in Singapore) we touched down.

To sum this up...Singapore is f'ing amazing. Seriously the most cool/friendly/impressive/clean/exciting/ and also /expensive city.

We have been planing this trip for so long it seems like it could only be something in the future...but it has now become the past. It was hard saying goodbye to Thailand as well as Austin and Aileen. We are left with some amazing memories, great photos, and the desire to return someday.

We are now off to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We landed at 2am after a long last day of traveling up from Koh Lanta back to the Phuket airport. Two truck rides and two ferry rides later we were at the airport. The flight went smooth and we landed in KL with very little expectations.