Temperatures hardly drop below 30 degrees at night, a sign that the rainy season is close. A reason to take a look at the new roof of Wayan Arya's father's house, which has gone up in flames two months ago with an incense stick. As emergency aid we had promised the fam...

Ni Putu Susilayani is the daughter of our neighbours Made and Jonny. He is a fisherman, and between his early morning and late afternoon trips with his 'Jukung', those slender fishing boats with double booms, he rents sunbeds to tourists on the beach of Lipah. Made is...

After well over 1 1/2 years of intensive use, the lunch boxes, containing lunch for 32 elderly people twice a week, had to be replaced. The new boxes are of surprisingly good quality and very practical, as they are equipped with a small, separately sealable cup for sou...

Recently we were told that on the hill in our village Lipah a house had gone up in flames, that the house belonged to Wayan Arya's father, and that there was hardly any money to rebuild the roof. Wayan Arya has been helping us since the beginning of our charity program...

On 24 May at 19.23 the Gunung Agung broke out again. With a loud boom, which could be heard until Ubud more than 30 km away, it threw glowing tephra as far as 3 km. The ash cloud rising 3 km above the crater briefly hindered air traffic. Some flights to and from Austra...

Our house volcano's strombolian eruptions, which have become a regular occurrence, are best observed on a full moon night. This beautiful video was recorded on May 18th at 2 am in the bright moonlight and shows the beauty and fascination of this natural spectacle. Many...

Our volcano has been releasing steam regularly for many months, which is a good sign according to experts, firstly because the pressure inside the volcano is reduced and secondly because it proves that all channels inside the mountain are open. Both facts strongly sugg...

Experts from the Volcanological Institute of Bali had already predicted shortly after the strong earthquakes in Bali's neighbouring island of Lombok that the volcano would probably go through a short period of calm now, because the gases inside were released abruptly a...

It has become quiet in the international media regarding the volcano Agung. Since July 2018 it actually hasn' t done much: Sometimes it is very quiet, sometimes it produces small ash clouds and even smaller eruptions, since a few weeks new magma is being pushed up and...

It's January and relatively quiet on the visitor's front, as is actually always the case this month. The rainy season has started about 5 weeks ago and brings us the usual, sometimes deluge-like rainfalls. Today is the first day of this year that we are greeted by a br...