Runaway @ Bali

Day 3. 28 May 2010, Friday.

After breakfast we took around 2 hours journey to the site. 

Guess what? We had made friends with McDonald and KFC for every breakfast!

  

Was raining all the way. 

We were afraid that the weather might affect the sightseeing today. 

Luckily it turned better when we reached the first site today! Were very exciting when reaching the destination!

Besides, it was the first time I see a volcano, an active one. :D

We landed in a market Sukawati on our way to the Kintamani Volcano and Lake Batur.

And finally we reached Kintamani Volcano and beside it was the Lake Batur. 

We had buffet at a restaurant and both the volcano and lake as the front view. 

We enjoyed so much the scenery instead of the buffet they offer. 

It cost RP. 65,000. (RM 24 +)

  

Camhore! xD

It was rather cold out there. 

Maybe it was because of morning rain and it was a highland!

Chill..... 

I think it was the only group photo we took in Bali?

Next was the rice terrace along our way to the next journey. 

 

Nothing much special to see instead of photo shooting! lol!

And next we were here, the Tirta Empul Temple (temple of holy water).

We all were lining up to have the holy water! 

not drinking laa, just wash away the evil spirit and bad lucks!

Yow! The lucky fish we saw!! Real huge pond! and We saw 2!

(though..we waited for darn long...)

 

And last we were back to Kuta! We tried a different restaurant, Made's Warung for dinner!

The food was not bad! and price also reasonable. Slightly higher than Bamboo Corner. 

But okla, you see the environment was different, no mosquitoes! haha!

after than we went jalan-jalan!

All right! That's it for the day...  Tiring ...

 Thanks for reading my blog! 2 more days in Bali to come! :)

Ciao! 

JF

Runaway @ Bali

Day 2. 27 May 2010, Thursday.

 We gather at 10 early morning to continue the second day journey. We used to have breakfast everyday. and the McDonald in Bali had satisfied our taste bud. lol!

Then we headed to Nusa Dua Beach for the water sports.

The prices of the water sport were kind of expensive if compare to Thailand. 

Almost the same as in Malaysia. 

1 water sport around RM50.00 - RM60.00. It again depends on personal interest. 

We were kinda fond on having Banana Boat Ride~ hahaha! In 15minutes, they brought you to the middle of the sea by riding the floating banana, and hands up! Threw you into the sea. That's it. But was really fun for those who have not try it before, like me...

Another interesting sport was the "I believe I can fly" with the parachute.

Yeah, they really did it. :D

After having few hours of water sport in the beach, we returned to hotel for bathing. 

Next was lunch at the famous Bebek Bengkil Dirty duck diner.

Few dishes I managed to capture. 

The food was good. But the prices were slightly expensive. 

Indeed it was secondly expensive meal after the dinner at Jimbaran Beach.

Around RM30-40 (1 Dish + Beverage). It depends on the kind of dishes you order. 

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Next station. We went to a market at Ubud. It was because of rain, most of the stalls were using plastic cover to cover their goods. 

Was rather hard to view all the good unless you want to buy.

 It was a huge market where there were 2 stories. But most of them are selling the same things/ souvenir. 

*You have to bargain and cut the price to at least 70% only you can purchase.* 

I don't really like to do bargaining in all the stalls that was why I did not buy anything.

The market in Ubud was some sort of like the market in Tirupati, India.
Except the things they sell were slightly different. And most important, "you don't need to bargain" they were all fair price! :)

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I found something interesting though! 

Almost everywhere!! Everywhere we go, as long as there is a souvenir shop, you will definitely see this!

erhem! I'm taking about the wood craving of male sex organ.

I don't know why...I regret I did not buy a key chain of this pattern!

I went out of the market, and there were few more palaces of the king (Raja) in Bali. 

Very surprising lor, Palace at the road side. And we can actually enter into the garden.

*wink!*

The garden view of the one of the palaces. 

Visitors are strictly not allow to enter the area beyond garden.

Still in the garden. And music were on...ding ding ding dong dong dong....

What next? Makan again laa....

This was the most happy and fantastic dinner we had in Bali!

B for Bali! B for Bambo Corner!  

Hooray!

The "very Balinese" menu...

The prices were incredibly cheap compared to those meals we had!

Can you imagine? 

Chicken and Chips: RP. 18,000 = RM6.70

T-bone steak(the most expensive dish I can find in the western food list! )
RP. 25,000 = RM 9.30

Less than RM10.00!!

So what do you think? noodles..? lagi murah larh tu.....

okay, can I say in this way? because we had too expensive meals for those days.
So we found it was incredibly cheap. 

(Actually for local as they said this meal is for those "richies" (rich people). 'cause for them is quite expensive already). 

DUH, then what about Bebek Bengkil and Jimbaran dinner? We were RAJA already...

**The food came and they were not bad though!** 

Worth it worth it! thumbs up!

My Sirloin Steak

(not bad right? Make sure you go when you are in Bali, Kuta)

Yey! Bambo Corner...!

After dinner, we went for massage. 13 person in one parlor.

Was really fun! and Not that expensive too.

2 hours Whole body massage + Thai Massage + (free one treatment). 

Treatment: pedicure/ manicure/ ear candle/ body scrub/ cream bath (hair) : choose one

Total: RP. 120,000 = RM 44.40

Erhem, I think guys were having more fun downstairs laa...

lol!

Ciao!

JF

Runaway @ Bali

continuing Day 1.

Next we went to Dreamland Beach. 

Which is one of the beaches in Bali that you have to go. 

Before we see the beach, some people were shouting hungry already! Guess who? Ms. Iris an of course. She was so keen on trying the Balinese's road side food the whole day. 

Luckily a roadside satay stall saved us after all. 

The fellow said was satay ayam (chicken), but when we eat, we don't feel like eating chicken meat. So, what was that actually? ...Nobody knows~LOL

 ...though we found out from the driver that some of the sellers sell "satay tikus" (mouse meat)! And we never ever want to try any of the roadside stalls' the days in Bali. Whenever we sees a stall we wonder whether there were really "satay tikus". 

Nobody knows...

   

Anyway when our tummies were filled up with the Satays, we tried to figured out where was the beach. I was impressed by "the way of entering "into" the beach."

A picture tells a thousand words.

Here we went. A small pathway for entering to see the beach.

For the one who does not with us in Bali.

We did this pattern years go during our graduation trip in Kuantan. 

We left the beach and headed for dinner. 

We were kinda looking forward a seaside dinner.

This was what come first before the dinner and also after the dinner.

We are so in love with the Balinese corn! Except for the Cameron Highland corn, I think my second favourite corn is right in Bali!

The tastes you can get are: Sweet, Salty, and Pedas (spicy)

My choice: Jagung Pedas is the best!
Rp. 10,000 (around RM3.70) per corn

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The group photo in the Romantic Jimbaran Beach!

erhem, though was romantic but there were mosquitoes too!

After dinner we went back to our hotel and searched for some dessert!

Voila! Haagen- Dazs!

The price was rather cheaper than Malaysia and Singapore.
Taste was still the same.

For the last picture, it was the Haagen-Dazs Balinese way of decorating their ice-cream. 

LOL!

All right! End of the first day. Was very tiring as I woke up early morning 4am something until 2-3am in the next morning only i shut my eyes.

Looking forward for the next day!

Ciao!

JF

Runaway @ Bali

Day 1. 26 May 2010, Wednesday.

If I am not mistaken the 9898 Bali trip was the trip we planed for almost 10 months ago. And finally the trip that we waited for long had arrived.

The Bali Island Map. The hotel we booked located at the city center-Kuta, of the island.

12/13 people left Changi Airport traveling by Air Asia to Denpasar Bali at 9.55am.

PS: Boarding time: 9.15am

We were still checking in luggage at 9.20am. Running to the Gate at 9.35am. and reached on the flight at 9.45am. This was rather cool and it had add some spice at the beginning of the trip. lol!

Anyway, let's see the faces on the plan! *exciting exciting*  

After 2 hours+ flight we reached Bali! It was the first time I took Air Asia flight. The seats are too small and kinda packed. I felt nausea on the plan too. Anyway, it was a good try. Luckily it was hardly 2 hours flight. 

When I stepped into the Denpasar International Airport, the first thing came to my mind was "why is it look so alike to the Chennai International Airport in India?" except for there were no many Indians. Besides, Denpasar airport is much more smaller than Chennai Airport.

Anyway, Welcome to Bali!

Tokah and our luggage...

Found the driver and we off for lunch. Was so hungry already...

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These were the dishes we ordered for 4 person. 

Salted egg fried chicken/ Fried egg with Balinese sauce/

Sambal Petai (the serving was real small, hardly 2-3 spoon/ Sesame honey friend chicken

Guess how much with few bottles of soft drinks?

It cost us around RM100+.

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After lunch, we happily headed to the first sightseeing place. 

It was Garuda Wishnu Kencana Cultural Park. 

RP. 50,000 per entry. (RM 18.50)

This the the most expensive entrance fee among all our sightseeing in Bali. LoL!

Anyway, there are many things you can try out in the cultural park like temporary tattoo, manicure, pedicure and portrait painting. All these are FOC. So, Ok lah.

It's worth it if you get to do all these.

I came to know it from Iris after 2 days from the visit! Otherwise I might be having one!

The statue of half man half bird Garuda.

The statue of Lord Vishnu. The Balinese spelled it as Wishnu,

the Hindu God who is the protector (part of the Hindu trinity Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver and Shiva the Destroyer). 

 Next, let us see the Balinese creature. I think it is some sot of like the Chinese Lion. 

The pictures above are the capture of the creature and the Malaysian 河东狮，Ms. Iris. LOL!

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Well, next we would like to perform some jumping style. 

I wonder why we can found the spring bed in the cultural park? lol! 

Anyway, except for Lord Wishnu's statue, it was this activity I like the most in this huge cultural park.

Performer A: Iris Tan

Nahh, not that high...But she seems like very enjoying it. 

Closing eyes some more wor~

Performer B: It's me! 

So scary! Was hard to balance! 

Enjoying too! Mouth open widely!

Performer C: Wendy Lee

Wahhh...this was really jumping high wor~

Very enjoying! Eyes, mouth, hands and legs are opening!

Let us see the last performer. He said he can jump, we'll see how high he can.

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The winner!

Mr. YP Chua

Indeed he can really jump very high! 

That's the first site of the trip. Dreamland beach and Jimbaran beach are coming soon.

All right, I will just update my post till here today.

I'm so sorry for those who waiting for my blog to be updated! I know I have been quite sometime for not updating the blog. 

Will edit the pictures soon and to be continued! 

Ciao!

JF