Reached Bali around noon, checked in and idled in the bar lounge. Room was pretty decent and good! Worth the upgrade. Anyhoo I bought the groupon deal (which still turned out to be quite expensive), stayed at Fontana Hotel Bali, a fairly new hotel.
Anyway it was so interesting to see SO MANY placards with names in the hands of the tour guides/drivers when we exited the arrival hall. Took us long enough to find my name in the hands of our friendly tour guide, Benny! Baby even told me one of the many guides immediately held up in front of me a korean name when he walked by haha!
Dropped by a relatively famous eatery for our lunch selling their famous pressurized chicken (the bones of the chicken can be eaten!) Had another dish which had fluffy crispy thingy wrapped around fish meat, very yummy! But we couldn't finish because we had breakfast at the airport and the boy even had nasi lemak onboard haha!
Got SIM card for the samsung tab, and off we went to the hotel. Friendly staff!
Went on a hour long ride to watch a traditional dance (of Barong) at Ubud, lasted about a hour. Meh, it was interesting but maybe not to our taste. Boy and I looked at each other, knowing we were both bored to the core but it was rude to leave halfway so we stayed. Next place was the silver craft and jewellery place! Nothing caught my eye and we left after walking one round around the shop. Skipped the woodcraft since we foresee we would buy nothing there so we headed to our main attraction for the day as well as lunch!
Mount Kintamani!The view smacked right in front of us was amazing and breathtaking while we had our buffet lunch (which was.... alright, not impressive though.)
Look at this! It was cooling and almost as if we had a hugeass TV right in front of us presenting this sight!
The little villages below us!
The yumtum tuna satay! :3 melts in your mouth!
Ikr baby's hair is shaped like a piece of poop /_\
Lake Batur beside it!
Made our way downhill which was raining when we left (lucky we caught the view before the rain came!)
But anyway like Benny told us, by the time we reached the bottom of the mountains, it was not raining anymore haha! Headed to the coffee plantation as I requested for it (Heh, did quite some research on Bali and the areas we will be in before the trip ok, don't play play!)
This is the famous Luwak cat that produces quality coffee beans extracted from its poop (yeap)!
Sat down for some coffee sampling which were all FOC except for the Luwak coffee that cost us 50,000RP! (approx SGD$5 :O)
Luwak coffee in the making! This device, Benny told us is so expensive! (probably 1 Mil RP???)
Had a nice chat with the worker and Benny there talking about Sg and Bali etc, while enjoying our coffee(s)!
The day tour was supposed to end here, it was probably 3-4PM by then, but we decided to pay another 100,000RP for petrol to Benny who suggested for us to head to Uluwatu for the sunset view and Jimbaran Bay for the beachside seafood dinner!
This was cheaper than if we paid the original price... which would be two separate tours. So we decided to go ahead with it!
On our way to Uluwatu Temple~
I was so excited! Research on the place showed me that the sunset would be gorgeous!
And I was not in the least bit disappointed! The view was fantastic!
Anyway side story, when we just arrived after buying bananas and putting on the sarongs (for me it was just a yellow fabric belt since I was in pants but females in shorts would have to put on the sarong to cover legs out of respect for the temple) We were heading to the toilet where we saw monkeys! So I gave one to one of them there (there were not too many monkeys as it was evening time and most were fed full and out in the jungle already). Happily walked away and when we came back, Baby wanted to do the same. So he gave one to the monkey, and it finished the banana so quickly!
Hence he decided to give another but was too slow in getting the banana out of the plastic bag so the monkey grabbed the whole bag of bananas LOL!
Benny already told us beforehand never to try taking back what we have given the monkeys, for they would get aggressive and try to attack us.
Warned the boy but ofc out of instinct Baby reached out to try getting back the bag of bananas and was greeted with the monkey baring its teeth and hissing at us hahahaha! such an amusing sight and there you go, our interesting banana and monkey story. All bananas gone before we even enter the area.
Greedy monkey with a whole bag of bananas!
Walked around to get a good spot for photos, and it was so hot standing in front of the sun lol but for the view we must tahan!
Monkeys around while waiting, I took so many photos because I was so amused and intrigued by them. Babylove says I must be interested because I am one of them (born in year of Monkey)!
Family of monkeys!
Baby monkeys! SO CUTE!
Babyl looks bad here so I willl kindly erase him out, but I must upload this because look at the monkey lol.
And this was what we were waiting for! Too gorgeous!
This was proudly by the boy who keeps telling me he captured the point where the sun touches the horizon.
After this was to Jimbaran Bay for our seafood dinner, another hour ride~
With the seabreeze and waves, life.
Then these 3 (one is not seen) dogs and puppies came by beside me when they saw the waiter serving us our first dish! They were so cute! Not aggressive nor pushy-for-food omg aww. They even stood up by me and sat by me waiting. Too cute too adorbs. *v*
I forgot which restaurant we went to, because theres a whole stretch of many cafes and restaurants along the beach. The food was decent, quite nice actually! I think it depends on which one you chose to dine in :)
Our spread! There were clams, calamari, prawns, fish and crabs! Ofc we couldn't finish all! This cost us about... 1 Mil RP after the GST and extra charges. Almost a $100. :/ But for the view and atmosphere I think it was... still okay?
Took back the crabs and fish to the hotel (which we ended up not eating anyway LOL)
Along the way these musicians came by, and Babyl got them to sing a really nice and romantic song (I think it was Unchained Melody). Even video-ed it down, but too embarrassed because I was giggling in embarrassment. The mood was really good tho, baby even sang along and to me ♥
Back to the hotel after that, had a really good and fruitful day out.
Behind the scenes- the boy applying medicine and gauze to his knee wound which he got about 1-2 weeks before the trip boo.
We were actually due to stay 3D2N only meaning after this day we were to leave at 5plus the next day but the first day we arrived at the hotel, we loved the place and Bali too much so we hastily decided to prolong our stay by another 2 nights! Great (though expensive) decision because 3 days not enough to explore Bali!
Day 3, 4 and 5 to go. But they were less time spent outside compared to the long day 2!
We had a little adventure too! Shall separate the posts now! teehee update another time about the remaining days :)
