Towards the end of last year in October we decided to give ourselves a early Christmas present by visiting Nusa Lembongan Island in Indonesia you may wonder why October for three reasons to avoid all the Christmas-New Year crowds , cheaper flights and there were going to be some art classes taking place on this island which suited my wife as she loves nature painting and she wanted to join this class with some other friends that were coming over to meet up with us on this island for the same reason so it was going to be a friends reunion art class and holiday at the same time just prefect for all of us.
The island of Nusa Lembongan is located southeast of Bali, Indonesia , once arriving in Bali we took the fast speed boat from Serangan Harbor which is a 30 minute boat ride over to the island of Nusa Lembongan from Serangan Harbor there are several trips a day made from this harbor by a few tour companies we used Blue Water Express they were very safe and helpful polite people even carried our luggage to the front door of the resort was very nice of them.
Waiting for our speedboat.
And we were on our way 😊
The waters were amazing so blue and clean.
We had book at the Sanghyang Bay Villas how lovely was this ...Towelling swans.... Swanning towels? Swans in a tango? Just beautiful 😅
View from our bedroom window 🌞
The resort was absolutely stunning a great view over the ocean with beautiful Bali style gardens surrounding the resort the prefect place for art classes to be taking place , i am sure there was going to be some interesting nature painting coming from these ladies.
But not before a good relaxation a dip in pool letting everyone know we are in Bali by the pool drinking cocktails and a nice dinner to follow before the art classes start up the follow day.
Table setting for our evening dinner.
After a refreshing day and a superb dinner it was time to chill out and prepare for art class in the morning well my wife not me i was only going to relax by the pool and let them do the work 😂
There was some serious work and discussions already coming from these dedicated ladies over the next few days i was starting to see some amazing nature paintings appearing while , i was still just relaxing by the pool with my cold beers 😁
By the end of the week classes i was very surprised in how much these ladies had learnt just in that week most of these ladies were already in art classes back home in Australia they all just wanted to be here together to paint nature painting and also enjoy there holiday in Bali on a famous popular island with so much beautiful nature around to fulfill there dreams by taking a nice painting home to hang in there sun-rooms , lounge rooms or somewhere in there house 🌞
And these are the painting these lovely ladies turned out by the end of classes that week.
After a successful week of art classes we still had a couple of days on the island before heading to Seminyak where we were going to stay a couple nights before flying back to Australia we decided to walk around the island to enjoy some views and sunsets Nusa Lembongan is a small island approx 4 km from end to end and has many coastal paths you can walk along with many little resorts you could stop in for a snack or a beer and enjoy the views.
Leaving Nusa Lembongan Island we were now in Lumbung Resort in Seminyak where we were going to enjoy more relaxtion and Balinese food and check out some Balinese markets to do some more food tasting.
We ever caught up with a Elephant farm where the Elephants were been cared for in a luxurious way.
My wife ever found a new lover 😂
Our last nights dinner in Seminyak Bali before retuning to Australia the next day , it had certainly been one amazing holiday and it was our last holiday since the global pandemic broke out , so happy we took that holiday because i do think it's going to be awhile before we can enjoy another holiday like that.
