Day 3, Sunday Lipah

What did we do before iPods and free wifi? Was it only last year we sweated in Internet cafes?
We're now in Lipah on the east coast near Amed. The whole area is fishing villages which have numbers of hotels from basic to fancy, they are mainly populated by europeans, so quiet at the moment. Our mid-range hotel costs about $60 night including
(unnecessary in retrospect!) breakfast and dinner. Our room is metres from the beach and amazing fish and coral are only 20m out for great snorkeling.
Yesterday's drive here from Sanur took about 3 hours through lots of villages and beautiful countryside. We stopped for lunch at Kasumba- YUM. Fish sate, veg, sambal, soup, peanuts and rice plus a tankard of tea for $2.50 each.
Today is party day for our sponsor teenager's tooth filing, so we've eaten at her family's house - pork and fish sate, urab (spicy veg salad), Lawar (spicy pig blood concoction) and rice all eaten with our fingers. Later there's coffee, fruit and rice cakes and after dinner dancing and fiery palm wine. Thankfully we misses the 2am pig slaughter but we watched pig no 3 being cut up -an interesting anatomical exercise.
We handed over some clothes -good Aussie surfwear for mum,dad and the 2 kids, coffee sugar and rice, and an envelope of cash. About 400 family and friends are expected to attend during the 2 day ceremony for 8 adolescents, so an expensive time.