Not to be confused with the Kuta in Bali, this is an enchanting little village with white sands, spectacular rocks in the sea, and few cows to avoid on the main road. Like in the Kuta in Bali people come here to maily to surf. This also means that nightlife is limited to dinner and couple of drinks before everything closes down, at around 10.30pm. Even if you wanted to stay up electricity goes off so often that your only chance is watching a movie on your ipod. So the chillout is so extreme that becomes almost forced.
If that's something possible they're even more chilled out here than in Senggigi. Time goes incredibly slowly; I think that's why everyone looks on average 15 years younger than their real age. In one day people here do what we would concentrate in probably 3 days. Time doesn't fly away between your hands; you never wonder: where's the day gone? I went from a 10 minutes lunch break to a 4 hours one. Then a little rest and coffee. Coffee is not taken to improve your productivity, and it is not taken in cars, trains, business meetings, or while walking to work. It is taken for the pleasure of it (and to kill the sleepiness from the beers you had with your lunch). It requires as a consequence a full hour at least and a few ciggies to go with it. You see? Lunch and coffee can take up to 5 hours with a good book. 5 hours to do something that we do in .. how long?
Welcome to Kuta then, chillax and surf capital. And what a non-swimmer like me is supposed to do? Put the feet up, join few more idlers at the only bar with beer today - they say the beer supply supposed to arrive here stopped in the commercial Bali, where they paid more for it (bastards) so these guys went to the main city 70kms away to get some – and join the locals in their favorite past-time: counting the number of scooters passing by (17 in a couple of hours so far)!
