This is my first time travel to Bali and I'm so excited. My advised to you guys is do a research before you went for travel. We didn't do research end up being cheated by the people there and not even get to most tourists spot. In front of our hotel there are various modes of transportation available. You can choose from city-like taxis, bemos, tourist shuttle buses, motor scooters or bicycles.
Wish to ride this
If you drinking alcohol, you must try bintang beer. Taste not bad.
If you walking around, there some people shouting "mushroom" is actually marijuana. There some comes around you asking to buy but you can reject them politely as you do not know what is the background of these people selling drugs everywhere around at Bali.
Bali favourite beer "Bintang"
We hired a van for 8 people cost about RPH 400,000 (RM140) for full day. They claims to bring us to tourist spots. A young guy (driver) bringing us to a place called Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary @ Ubud. Travel about 1 hour from our hotel.
Behind the gate is Temple
Bali is know as Island of the Gods. There are lots of temple around Bali island and these monkeys are there to guard the temple (they claims). If you are going to these monkey island, please becareful and watch your personal belonging. The rumours are these monkey is train to steal tourist belongings. Please do not throw stone or hit the monkey as they are fierce and bite you. You can buy food at the entrance and feed those little monkeys. If you saw my picture standing in front of the gate, that is actually a temple but don't know what reason the day we went closed. We didn't manage to go inside. So, we just hang around outside.
Next the driver bring us to had lunch. We arrived at Kintamani and had our buffet lunch called Batur Sari. A very nice view restaurant. This restaurant where you can view volcanic mountain (still active now). Having lunch while looking at the astonishing view of Batur Lake and Batur Volcano was something that you shouldn't miss out on when you come to Bali. Weather is cooling like Genting Highland. You can sit outside and enjoy the view but the day we went unfortunately raining. We can't see the view so we didn't take any picture. The food price is about RPH 90,000 (RM32) per person. Honestly, the food is not good and so many flies around. You can actually view Mount Batur and Batur Lake from many other different spots of the area so you don’t have to spend 90,000 rupees over lunch if the intention was merely for the view.
Next destination will be Tegallalang Rice Terrance. Tegallalang is a well known area to the north of Ubud in the centre of Bali. It is the major area for handicraft production in Bali, but also has a surprising amount of other businesses. There lots of people surround our car to sell their items once we stop by there. Please becareful when buying, you must remember to bargain when purchase. Most of the item are expensive so you have to bargain but in a polite way.
If you wanted to relax, of course massage & spa is not gonna to be missed. The driver drove us to Galuh Bali. Place is beautiful and had nice service but of course price is also nice. LOL.... They have meditation room, swimming pool, jacuzzi and body steam facilities. The staff is polite and welcome us with smile. Their business is very good that day and we didn't make any booking so we have to wait for room. They brought us to garden which next to the swimming pool. They bring us flower tea and relax next to the pool. They had a lot of package and we choose Nature Inspiration that cost us USD 65 per person for 2 hour. The package contain romatic Footbath, Body wash, Balinese Massage, Body Scrub, Tropical Fruit Body Polish, Aromatic Flower bath, Body Lotion. If you come with couple, you are allowed to share same room with your couple or you choose to be alone at the room. Any special service (if you know what i mean) i'm not sure if they providing.
Big Big Lobster <3
We ate our dinner at Blue Ocean Seafood located at Jimbaran as well as our last destination.
You can enjoy sunset view while having dinner. There a lot of seafood restaurant along the beach. The table will placed along the sandy beach. At night, there will be local people having performance for the customer. Everyday will be different performance. There a band will singing from table to table and you can request song and some other night they will have dancing or fire eater performance. Price is so expensive for the seafood so is depends for you to have dinner there. After the dinner, the driver drove us back to Hotel.
Hard Rock Bistro
Hard Rock bistro is available at the Hotel. If you do not wish to walk out to Kuta town, you can enjoy drinking at your Hotel. There is souvenirs shop and all from Hard Rock .
You will unique shop decorative
A lot special item selling
Disco at Bali
Night view at town
A memorial statue for the bombing victims
We didn't had chance to taste indonesian famous food as we did not do any research but it was a memorable trip for me. Not only my first trip but i'm so enjoy my holiday with my dear. I will going to Bali for 2nd time and i'm sure i can share more through my blog. Hope this day will come soon because i didn't had holidays for sometime.