旅游篇 | 黄族之永远回忆录

Breakfast in hotel @ 820 before we start our one-day tour around the beautiful island of Bali!

Ubud Art Village
The local tour guide come and picks us at 9am to the Ubud Art Village (about 1 hour journey from Kuta). Both of us fall asleep in the MPV.. too tired.
Our 1st stop for the day was a small Gold and silver smith at Celuk Village. Silver has long been valued as a precious metal, and it is used to make nice jewellery.The owner there shared with us how the process of sterling silver jewellery goes. I bought a nice earring for my dear (YC) which cost about Rph 180,000.

Next, we headed to the Art/Painting Collection Studio at Mas Village. We were very fascinated with their art piece there. We witnessed some of the locals drawing the pictures on some sort of clothing materials and put on the color on it. We browsed thru the studio but we didnt but anything there.

Tegalalang Terrace/ Toya Devasya
On our way to Toya Devasya, we have a chance to see the nice padi terrace at Tegalalang Village.

We headed to our next destination, Hot Spring @ Toya. Toya is water in Balinese and Devasya is Holy in Sanskrit. Both locations of Toya are by the water; on the hot spring of Toya Bungkah by Lake Batur within the caldera of Mount Batur stitched with Mount Abang in Kintamani. Toya Devasya offers a comprehensive package of spending a healthy body and mind holiday, to escape from your mundane tasks and routines, always inside the hands of Mother Nature.

As we enter, we saw locals and some tourists washing themselves with the Holy water in a pond. We didn’t bring our swimsuit, so we can only feel the water with our hands. By that time, our stomachs were growling in hunger. We were served a local steamboat in the lake Side ( lunch included in the package).

Kintamani Volcano @ Mount Batur
Next, we head to the viewing spot of Mount Kintamani! According to the tour guide, Mount Kintamani is still an active volcano. We were really glad that the weather was cooling on top and can witness the beautiful panorama of Batur Volcano and their lake.

Ubud Central Market
Now, we were at lady shopping paradise @ pasar Ubud. There were lot beautiful ole ole (souvenirs), price slightly cheaper than Legian Street. I buy some dresses for myself, my Chloe and YC. Hubby buys something for himself too. I realized my bargaining power not bad too XD

Galuh Bali Spa
After a tiring day travelling and busy bargaining, we were really looking forward to our booked spa package at Galuh Bali Spa. It takes about 1 hour journey from Ubud Central market to Galuh Spa Center. We were paired in pairs in a room. Out spa treatment started with a foot waash and after that, it was oil massage and lastly body scrub. Hubby shared that the spa service was not very impressive. It costs is USD65/person.

After a late night meal in hotel, we headed back to our room and rest….

[ratings]

Booked our ticket in December 2009 and planned for our Bali trip in March 2010. Unfortunately, due to some incident; we have to postpone our trip to 3^rd June. And.. in a blink of an eye, both of us were ready for our Bali trip !! Here we COME!

Reached LCCT about 730am, checked in our luggage and had breakfast in Starbucks. Flight from Malaysia to Denpasar (Bali) is about 2 and half hours.

Ngurah Rai Airport

Arrived at Ngurah Rai Airport about 1220pm. The airport is located in southern Bali, 13km from Denpasar town. Queued up for about 45 minutes to cleared the check point L

Our driver (forgoten his name XD) picked us up from the airport and sent us straight to Holiday Villa Hotel (Kuta Bali). We booked a deluxe room and breakfast (3 Days) and dinner (1 Day) included. I was embraced by traditional Balinese architectures blended with lush tropical gardens.

Holiday Villa Hotel, is just 2 minutes walk from the famed Kuta beach, and 3 minutes stroll from popular shopping district, Legian Street

Rosso Vivo (means bright red)

After checked in, had lunch at restaurant called “Rosso Vivo” located at Jalan Pantai Kuta, front of Kuta seaview Cottage, 20 minutes walking distance. (Sweat walked under the hot sun). Rosso Vivo is dining restaurant selection of top Italian a la Carte menu, Set Menu, Traditional home mad pizza and also Buffer menu; designed in comfortable, cozy, romantic environment with beautiful kuta beach view. The lunch costs us Rph 430,000 (Rm150++). The serving of the food was huge portion, delicious!

Uluwatu Temple

Next, visiting to Uluwatu Cliff temple which is about 30 minutes from Kuta Bali. We paid Rph 400,000 for 2 persons. Uluwatu Temple located at the southern of the island, where you will find a temple balance on the cliff’s edge with drop of 250ft. It is a beautiful place to see sunset. Before we are able to enter the temple, we are told to tie a cloth over our waist and for those pants are shorter than knee length. This is a sign of respect

A local guide was assigned to us to show the way inside the temple. As we walked along the temple, can see lot cunning monkeys J The view over the temple was very beautiful ( see our lovely pictures taken on top of the cliffs)

Jimbaran Bay

Started our journey for seafood dinner at Jimbaran. Hubby was starving. We were fascinated by the ambience of the place as the tables were set on the beach facing the sea. We started to place our dinner. We ordred package A (Rph 1,007,103 for 2 persons); The package includes 1 big bottle beer, 1 glass of wine, two fishes, squids, prawns, mussels, lobsters, crabs and vegetables (kangkung). My colleagues told me the seafood restaurants are very expensive but we felt it was quite reasonable as the food was pretty good and the portion was sufficient for two of us. Can see there is char grilled corn-on-the cob from beach vendors and they have dancers on stage.