Bali 15-03-08

It was our final day in Bali. Our flight back to Malaysia was scheduled to depart at 20:15. Since we had almost a full day in Bali and there wasn't any activity planned in our itinerary, we extended Wayan's service for 60000 Rupiah and booked the same van we had been traveling since the first day for 500000 Rupiah (inclusive of petrol).
I woke up as early as 08:00 to go to the spa that I booked earlier at Bunga Bali Spa. I was kinda lazy to get up so early after the drinking session on the night before. But thinking of the spa, I forced myself to get up. I took the Serenity Package and paid 200000 Rupiah (approx RM72) for 2 hours of spa treatment. Cheap, wasn't it?
The package includes:-

• Serenity foot wash
• Serenity Massage
• Serenity Body Scrub with Sandalwood
• Serenity Milk Body Mask
• Serenity Bath with lemon slice
• Ginger tea

Bunga Bali Spa

There were few more types of treatments that I wanted to try like the warm stone massage and balancing massage, but time did not allow me to do so...sigh. 4 days were never enough.
After spa, I quickly went back to the room to pack my luggages as the van came at 11:00. I didn't really spend my time on the flowers bath and even brought the ginger tea back to the room to drink...too rush...too rush!!
After checking-out, our first stop was Ibu Oka Babi Guling (Suckling Pig) at Ubud. Sze Wei's friend said it's a must-try food in Bali. There were a lot of stalls selling this Babi Guling, you can see it at everywhere, but we opted for the most famous one.

Ibu Oka Babi Guling

So crowded

We arrived there at around 12:30 and it was time for lunch. The place was so crowded and the fact is it didn't look like a restaurant. The "restaurant" was in the house compound. There was no other choice of food there except the babi guling. We ordered 6 sets of babi guling (with rice) and teh botol (4 of us + Wayan + driver).

Babi Guling

Teh Botol

Babi guling (cost 30000 Rupiah) is a rice set which consist of white rice, vegetables, roast pork and deep fried intestine. The pork skin was crispy, something like the suckling pig we have in Chinese restaurant. I didn't really enjoy this meal as it was too oily and I didn't like the pork's smell. It was so disgusting. The Teh Botol tasted one kind too. I don't how to describe it but I didn't like it as well.

Pregnant monkey

After lunch, we headed to Uluwatu temple - temple on a cliff. LKC had to take off his spectacles as LKC was warned that the monkeys might snatch his spectacles away. Since it is a holy temple, no one is allowed to hit or disturb the monkeys. The monkeys are the king there!! We didn't finish going round the temple trail as the weather was toooooooo hot.

With Wayan - the tour guide

LKC & LPC at Uluwatu

The we headed to Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park. The Garuda Wisnu Kencara is the newest statue but still under construction and would be the tallest statue in the world. After completion, the statue would be moved to a new location nearby. What we had seen was only 20% of the planned structure and it was due to complete in 2010. There was nothing much to do there so I decided to take some candid photos.

Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park

Mount Agung - highest volcano in Bali

LKC & LPC at Garuda Wisnu Kencana

LKC bitten by Garuda

Seah Nee kissed Garuda

LPC licked Garuda

LKC poked Garuda's eye

Yeah!!

Wisnu on the left, Garuda on the right

It was still early for us to go to the airport, so we headed to the nearest beach, the Jimbaran Beach, which happened to be the second bomb blast site. There was a fleet of restaurants along the beach. We strolled along the beach while enjoying the sunset. Too bad we did not know this place earlier, else we would have came for dinner before flying back home. Anyway, we stopped by at Santi Cafe to have a drink while we enjoyed the beautiful sunset. We too saw locals fishing, fishermen going to the sea, ang mohs surfing, children practicing silat, couples sunbathing and etc. Ahhhhh...so relaxing! We miss it so much!

Jimbaran Beach

LKC & LPC at Jimbaran Beach

LKC & LPC at Jimbaran Beach

Caught a fish...so happy!

Magnificent

Beautiful sunset

Coconut...refreshing!!

Bintang Beer...been drinking this almost every night

We left with a heavy heart to the airport at around 17:30. There was a strange regulation after the Bali bombing where only airline passengers were allowed to enter the departure hall. We had to bid goodbye to Wayan before entering the departure hall.
We had given our last 1000 Rupiah to Wayan before we entered the departure hall. Therefore we had nothing left in our pockets. We forgot to save some money for dinner at the airport, so we ended up exchanging Ringgit again for some Rupiah to pay off our dinner.
Anyway, we had to settle for a very 'poor' McDonald's meal. We exchanged RM30 for 28800 Rupiah, but guess what? We could only afford 1 Cheese burger set meal and 1 McChicken(no set meal). We had never felt so poor in front of the McDonald's counter before. Can you imagine that we had to punch the calculator to add up the prices before we made the order??!! Cannot even afford 2 set meals! Aiiii.....never felt so poor in my life before.
The flight departed at 20:15 sharp and arrived 30 minutes earlier than the estimated time of arrival. Everyone clapped their hands when the captain announced it. Haha...ever heard of Air Asia being on-time?? Yeah, we did! We also flew on the newest A330 Airbus, which was a very memorable moment!

Bali 14-03-08

The itinerary for the day was a bit more relaxing. Only 2 places were planned for visit. Most of the time was spent on traveling from one place to another place. We started off our journey at around 10:30 and arrived at Bedugul around 2 hours later.
After the long journey, we stopped at Ulun Danu Temple. It was a beautiful temple as it is sited on the shores of Beratan Lake, which seems to rise out of the lake. After taking the photos of Ulun Danu Temple and Taman Ayun Temple, we took a speed boat ride to tour around the Beratan Lake. It took around 20 minutes to round the Beratan Lake by speed boat and cost 80000 Rupiah for 4 persons. It was so breezy and cooling though we were sitting under the sun. The water of lake was so cold. It was a very good experience as I guess we will not get such an opportunity back in Malaysia.

Ulun Danu Temple

Ulun Danu Temple

Kush-kush hota hai

Taman Ayun Temple

Taking the speed boat ride

LKC and LPC at Beratan Lake

LKC and LPC at Taman Ayun Temple

After the ride, we headed for buffet lunch (again!) at the restaurant few minutes away from the lake. Nothing much special on this buffet lunch as we were having similar dishes like nasi goreng, mee goreng, keropok, satay, fry vegie and etc.
After lunch, we dropped by at the Candi Kuning Market for some shopping spree again. Candi Kuning Market is a traditional vegetable and fruit market which is located few minutes away from the lake. Various types of fruits and vegetables can be found like strawberries, buah salak, mangosteens, durians and etc. We bought some local potato crackers, a box of strawberries and 2 pairs of sandals for my mummy dearest. The strawberries only cost around RM2 per box, it is even cheaper than buying in Cameron Highlands. 2 pairs of sandals only cost 35000 Rupiah (approx RM12.50 for 2 pairs), it is even cheaper than made-in-china products!!
After the shopping spree, we continued our journey to most well known sacred temple in Bali, Tanah Lot Temple. We were supposed to witness the beautiful sunset at Tanah Lot Temple but the weather was not on our side. Firstly, the sea was at high tide, which disallowed us from going near the temple. Secondly, the rain started to pour for around 10 minutes and it was so cloudy after the rain. The thick cloud blocked the sun so we ended up leaving the place early. Didn't get the chance to see the beautiful sunset at Tanah Lot Temple *sob**sob*.

Tanah Lot Temple

Tanah Lot Temple

Batu Bolong Temple

There is another market nearby Tanah Lot Temple. We walked around the market again. We were too tired to see the same things being sold at all the markets. Seah Nee and I stopped by at a tattoo stall and both of us had a tattoo each, which last for around 2 weeks. I had a butterfly tattoo drawn on the back of my neck.

"Tattooing" the butterfly

My butterfly tattoo...nice!!

In less than 15 minutes, disaster happened to my butterfly tattoo. My lovely tattoo became out of shape. The ink dispersed before it dried up. LKC helped me to wipe off the ink and thank god, the butterfly shape was still visible. Luckily I only paid 10000 Rupiah (approx RM3.50) for this tattoo. The photo above was the only remembrance for my intended tattoo...sigh!!

Before wiping off the ink..."yat pat yeh"

After wiping off...another "yat pat yeh"

After jalan-jalan, we went to a Chinese restaurant, Teuku Umar Garden Seafood Restaurant for dinner. We had crab meat corn soup as starter. As for the main course, we had fried chicken, deep fried fish, bean curd and potato leaves. The meal was so-so only, but at least we get something different from buffet.

Crabmeat corn soup, deep fried fish

Beancurd, fried chicken, potato leaves

After dinner, we headed back to the hotel. After taking shower, LKC and I walked around North Kuta while Sze Wei and Seah Nee went for the 15 minutes free massage. We took a cab to Legian for shopping and supper. We stopped by at the Bali Bomb Blast Monument to took some photos. The bomb blast occured on 12 Oct 2002 and took away 200 over lives, 30% of the deceased were Australians. Next, we passed by another Surfer Girls outlet and saw a fashion show. The models were not those professional models that you see on TV. They looked more like transvestites...oopss.

Bali Blast Monument

The fashion show

We stopped by at the MegaStore at Hard Rock Hotel where both LKC and I bought a souvenir t-shirt each. I paid for these t-shirts since LKC paid for the whole trip...hehehe...less than 10% of the total trip. We headed to Sailfin Restaurant for our supper. We had another luxury supper on that night as we had another lobster (249000 Rupiah) for our supper and carbonara pasta. LKC ordered Green Sands - Bali Shandy, by mistake. I had margarita lemon and Seah Nee had Long Island Tea, 45000 Rupiah each.

Cheese baked lobster

Green sands

Margarita

After supper, we went back to hotel and continued our drinking session by the pool side. We played 15-20. The next person sitting next to me had to pick up a card to determine how many slips of beer he/she required to drink if I guessed correctly. At first, both LKC and I were so strong. We defeated Seah Nee and Sze Wei. We had around 8 cans of beer, they drank almost half of it. After that, we changed the game and played Big 2. The person who held the most cards would require to drink the beer. In the beginning, we were still leading. There were only 2 cans left and we thought both of them will sapu it as well. Almost at the end of the game, we ended up sapu'ing the beers as LKC got a "13 fried" and I got fried also. All of us went were drunk but it was a very memorable night. Shall organize this kind of activity more often.