Trip to Bali - Day 5

I've finally found time to update my blog. To my dearest followers, my apologies for the lack of update. I was thinking what better way to "re-start" my blogging mood by completing my Trip to Bali "blog".

It's the last day, so we had to check out of the villa. Leaving this beautiful place was a little "sad" for me. So I convinced my hubby to walk around with me to take a few more photos of the villa. :)

Here's the entrance to the spa!

Before we left, Han received a message from Air Asia saying that our flight will be delayed. It was scheduled to take off at 8pm but delayed to 10pm.

Of course we had breakfast served before we check out.

Han chose something different. Chicken with egg porridge. He said it's nice!

I stuck to the American breakfast. Opting for scrambled eggs and bacon this time.

Gede picked us up from our villa and our tour begun! This time we took the Bedugul-Tanah Lot route.

As we were traveling, we could see clear blue skies and rice fields.

Our first stop on the way to Bedugul was a temple at Mengwi.

The entrance to the temple.

We spent about 20minutes at this temple. The weather was very hot that it bothered me a lot.

The "main entrance" to the temple. It is closed when there isn't any ceremony.

Part of the temple.

After Mengwi, we stopped at Pacung. It was slightly cold there and it felt like Cameron Highlands. We could see the rice fields and a resort that is located by the rice field. The scenery was very soothing. It is located very far from town, so if you wish to just chill in Bali and do nothing but just enjoy the cool breeze, you may want to stay at Pacung Mountain Resort.

We took some photos and enjoyed the scenery for a good 15minutes.

I think the tree was very outstanding.

Us at Pacung.

After Pacung, we headed to Bedugul. The journey to Bedugul is a little longer compared to our trip to Kintamani. It got colder as we headed towards Bedugul. When we arrived at Bedugul, I was already shivering. It was a good thing that I brought along my jacket.

The entrance fee was IRD 10,000 per person.

The entrance to Ulundanu Temple.

Ulundanu Temple

The temple on a lake. This exact image of the temple is printed on the 50,000 IRD.

The frogs around the temple is a symbol of Fertility. According to Balinese belief, frogs gives makes their rice fields more "fertile".

Gede & I posing in front of the temple.

He wears the cap only at Bedugul, to keep himself warm.

I couldn't resist taking photos of flowers.

After Bedugul, we went to Candi Kuning, fruits and flowers market. This place reminded me o Cameron Highlands only much bigger and their fruits look so much fresher! There were mountains of strawberries, passionfruit and just about any fruit & vegetable.

Part of the market.

We loved the passionfruit the villa gave us. So we bought 5 bunches of 6 passionfruit home! One bunch of six cost us IRD 8,000 (less than RM3). We gave Gede a bunch and a packet of strawberries for him to share it with his family.

Rabbit!

This poor rabbit is not sold as a pet. Gede told us that Balinese would buys them to make "satay"! Poor creatures. I just wish I could let them all run free!

Gede wanted to drop us off at Pacung to have lunch by the rice fields. It was buffet lunch. We decided that we wanted to try some local food. So we asked him if he could send us to a restaurant/stall that serves Babi Guling.

He said that he'll try his best to find one along the way. As it was post Nyepi Day, we may not be able to find it cause it takes them one day to marinate the pig.

After stopping at a few stalls, luck was on our side! We found a stall that sells Babi Guling! My initial thought of Babi Guling is roasted piglet. I'm not a fan of eating piglets (I find them too young and cute to be killed.) I was quite happy to know that it's actually an adult pig that they serve. :)

We invited Gede to join us for lunch since it's the only stall around that area.

It's HUGE!

Babi Guling Men Lari. (would men runaway after eating this?)

Han chatting with Gede.

The serving!

There's a few pig skin, pieces of pork jerky, one pork satay, some vegetable, rice and soup! The soup is made of banana leaf stem!

The other dishes served with the Babi Guling.

This meal costs us IRD 60,000 for 3 persons. Including drinks. It was very filling for me. Gede told us that they usually don't eat this when they are at work because the pork oil would make them sleepy. He promised that he won't fall asleep. Well, he fulfilled his promise! :)

After lunch we then headed to Tanah Lot temple to watch the sunset. The journey took almost 2 hours.

At the gate, Gede initially told the "gate keepers" that we are locals from Jakarta. We didn't get why he said that. So we bought tickets to enter as local. When we entered the main entrance, the ticket officer asked if we were locals. We said "No, we are from Malaysia." Then it came to mind that we were suppose to say that we are locals from Jakarta. Our bad for not listening why Gede told them that. Lesson learnt! So we were asked to go back to the gate to purchase tickets as foreigners.

Along the way to the temple, there are many stalls, just like Ubud Market.

Foreigners strolling along the market.

The things here are much cheaper than Ubud Market. I bought a few more things that I've purchased at Ubud Market at a lower price! Should have known this better huh?

Here's the entrance that would lead you to the temple.

It was indeed a very hot day.

It's the "Holy Spring".

Tourists getting themselves blessed.

Me attempting to take a "dive". :P

The Tanah Lot temple was built by the sea. When it is high tide, it would look like a "floating temple".

Me presenting the Tanah Lot Temple!

ahhh... the sea!

We strolled by the beach. Taking funny photos of ourselves. See if we could find any sea creatures (we saw a number of live crab there). After a while, the weather was just too hot for us. We decided to go back to the market and have a drink. We went to a shop that sells coconuts! It was indeed very refreshing! :)

Han enjoying his coconut drink! :)

We saw a bat hanging on a pole.

The bat was not chained, he just kept fanning himself because the weather was very hot. We have no idea why this bat stays there.

After taking a short break, we decided to shop for "last minute" souvenirs. Once we completed our list of souvenirs we headed to another end of Tanah Lot. We saw another temple that was built by the sea. We had a good 3ominutes to watch the sunset. We just strolled around enjoying the sea breeze and the heat (the heat wasn't that enjoyable though).

Here's the other temple. Less people here. More peaceful! :)

As we were walking around we saw a couple taking their wedding shots.

We congratulated them when we walked passed them. :)

Sun is slowly saying "See you tomorrow!"

After watching the sun set, we headed to the airport. The journey took us nearly 1.5 hours to get there. When we arrived at the airport, we still have about 2.5hours to have dinner and look around.

Be warned! You need to prepare IRD 150,000 each person when you check in at the airport.(The Immigration part.) My sister warned me that it was IRD 200,000 per person. Well, luckily we prepared more than enough.

After walking around looking for food, we decided to have dinner at Prada Priority Restaurant 1 simply because there were more people dining there. (I was wondering why there was a "1" after the name of the restaurant, I soon realized that they have "2" and "3" at the inner side of the airport.

Han ordered the Nasi Campur which was so-so only.

I ordered the Nasi Ayam Panggang which was quite nice!

The sauce on top was a little different. It's made out of ginger and chilli.

The meal costs us IRD 194,250 including two drinks and Government Tax.

We walked around the Duty Free area. Bought two bottles of hard liquor and waited at our gate.

We were waiting at the gate until it was about 30minutes to our boarding time. We asked the ticket officer at the gate if there was a mistake. He just told us to wait.

We were just sitting in front of the gate until an officer came to us and ask if we were flying Air Asia to Kuala Lumpur. We told him YES! He informed us that it has changed to another gate and we only have 5minutes more!

We ran to the gate and was puzzled why we were not informed of the change of gate number. I got scolded by the Air Asia personnel who checked my ticket. She said "The whole airplane is waiting for you." I just couldn't help myself and shot back at her "If your announcement was clear and loud enough, we would have known!" and I just stomped off! (Hey! I am your customer after all! *(&*^^%)

We came up with the conclusion that it's not good to check in too early after all. The announcements at Denpasar International Airport can't be heard when you are in a restaurant or at the Duty Free area. Do double check with the proper counters before you decide to walk around. We were quite proud of our KLIA services after this experience. Well, we would say even LCCT, Malaysia provided better service.

That's how our trip ended. We arrived home at about 2am. It was a good thing that the next day was a weekend.

We had a great time at Bali. We are definitely going to make another trip there. The next time perhaps a more relaxed one since we covered the "famous" routes already. :)