PANTAI PASIR PUTIH
Virgin beach in the east of Bali
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This report will not contain many life hacks and tourist information, as this is more an emotional sketch about a trip to one of the most beautiful places on earth.
Pantai Pasir Putih, aka Virgin beach, aka White Beach on the island of Bali, Indonesia.
We specially set aside a day to visit this place when we saw pictures of it in one of the travel blogs. To our great pleasure, the road to the beach from Candidasa, where we stopped at that moment, ran past the Monkey Forest - a huge cluster of monkeys near the Sang Hyang Ambu Temple. Our driver warned in advance that it is better to approach animals without caps, sunglasses, mobile phones and other gizmos that might interest curious monkeys. Their speed of movement is much faster than the speed of human reaction. A visitor to the monkey forest may well be left without objects dear to his heart when the monkey that grabbed them rushes away into the depths of the jungle. The photo below shows our first acquaintance with the monkeys, which happened while they were sharing a meal with several cows.
The gift bag with bananas aroused keen interest among the tailed natives, and soon the leader of the pack took the "bread place" near him (no, not the one in the blue T-shirt, he is just being photographed).
At first, the younger monkey ranks sat quietly on the steps leading to the temple or walked imposingly along the nearby highway.
But gradually, the sight of the bananas eaten by the leader warmed up the crowd of tailed spectators and they began to claim their rights to the contents of the package. The leader had to prove his rights to tasty property to each of the impudent ones with paws and teeth.
Frightened by threats and bites, the monkeys fled and changed tactics. Now they are trying to outsmart their leader in a different way in order to snatch more bananas from a bag.
We were able to capture their new behavior on video. See how one distracts, while the other takes so much from the bag that it does not fit in its paws 🤣🤣🤣
After frolicking with the monkeys, we continued our way to the Virgin Beach. To get there you need to overcome two obstacles. One natural in the form of a mountain, which you must first climb, and then go down from it to the beach. The second obstacle is artificial, in the form of a wooden booth and a person sitting in it, who "teaches" all visitors to the beach. Since we did not see any prices or prices, it looks like the ticket collector determines the amount of each bribe from tourists "by eye", or calculates the cost of entry through the price of the vehicle on which the beach visitors come ;-)
We overcame both obstacles and ended up on the top of the mountain. The views were incredible.
From one of the slopes one could see a fairly large village surrounded by fields.
Against the background of the village, as they say now, I took a selfie ;-)
Delighted with the surrounding views, we got to the side of the mountain, from where the view was even more inspiring: the sea, rocks, beaches ...
Here it was already necessary to take a joint selfie.
Below, under the mountain, we saw a tent city, quite comfortable, with showers, tables and some other infrastructure elements. Judging by it, we can conclude about the development of "tent" tourism on the island.
And so, for the first time, Virgin Beach appeared before us. An alluring white strip of sand in the bay between two huge rocks. The bright hot sun accentuated the "azure and turquoise" of the water.
"We slowly descended the mountain ..." and went ashore. Well, hello, Pantai Pasir Putih, Virgin Beach, White Beach.
Like many beaches in the world, sun loungers with umbrellas are the property of cafes and restaurants. We "joined" this cafe, which is located in the uncrowded right side of the beach, because there was only one here, and in the left side there are several such establishments and therefore the beach there is more "loaded" with tourists. Moreover, our driver recommended this place.
Right behind the cafe, we found a pasture in the jungle, where local red cows were feeding.
The mountain from which we went down to the beach, below was represented by black rocks, which were slightly discordant with the name "White Beach".
Along the entire beach there are dozens of trimaran - local boats with two additional "floats" on the sides, which give stability on the waves.
We have witnessed how, after lunch, local fishermen launched several such boats in a row, literally one by one the boats went off into the distance from the coast.
Classic sand drawings have been made and footprints have been left on the beach. Here in the photographs you can see that, in fact, on the beach, part of the sand is white, and part is black, but apparently the white grains of sand are a little lighter and therefore they are constantly on top. Although this is nothing more than my version ...
We made a circular panorama of the beach, trying to fit all the beauties around us in one frame.
In the center of the beach, several black rocks break out, fighting against the white sand. This black ridge serves as a kind of border between the right and left sides of the beach. Near the ridge we met a trimaran with a flag of the familiar colors of the Ukrainian flag ;-)
The mountain on the left side of the beach has no rocks in the water, but pleases with a natural pool in which it is interesting to swim and swim in a stone bowl created by nature.
Having bathed, we returned to our cafe, where three fish, freshly caught by the owner, were already waiting for us. We chose one of them and got fried for lunch. It was very tasty.
On the way back to Candidasa, we met a local peasant who was plowing the land between the palms in the jungle on oxen. We photographed this unusual event for us.
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