Too steep and too wet

As a former geography and tourism teacher I should have realized better: when hunid air from the ocean passes over an island and is forced upwards again a mountainslope, it will cool down and the vapour will condens: the result are clouds and rain. From the coast we had seen it every day, the mountaintops (there are two main volcanoes on Bali, the highest one erupted in 1963) were hidden in the clouds almost all day, especially in the afternoons. So when we climbed the mountain road we had to shelter ourselves for the rain for more than an hour. Then the slope up to Munduk was so steep, that when we finally got there in a rainfree period, we were as wet from transpiration as we would have been when it had rained. Very hard. In the guesthouse (simple but nice) we laundered our clothes, and not to our surpise, they didn’t dry at all. That is a thing we are already used to, the air is so humid that everything is moist, nothing will get really dry. Only in an accommodation with airconditioning it is possible to get your things dry in one night. So sometimes in the morning we dress in very cool cycle wear.

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