9am
We started the day eating breakfast at a warung ( means "coffeeshop") opposite the hotel, as we did not booked any breakfast with the hotel. We we introduced to Bali ayam potong at Warung Mbok Limbok. We will choose the marinated chicked and they will try for us.While frying, we helped ourselves with a serving of rice each and some raw vegetables on the table - they are mint leaves, kangkung, cabbage etc. Once the chicken is ready, we consume the food within minutes as it was delicious. I also bought 2 packets of keropok to munch in case i am hungry during the day. Damage done : Rp20,000.
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| The marinated fried chicken at Warund Mbok Limbok |
10am
Later on, we went to bus stop from yesterday and waited for the Sarbagita Bus to take use to Nusa Dua, while waiting, we met a Mexican who is travelling around south east asia for 1 month. He reached yesterday ( same day as us) and will be going to Malaysia ( our home country) next. We introduce to him the interesting places to visit and different food to taste and enjoy. We also manage to see a rumah bersalin ( A clinic which specialise in delivering babies} and its open 24/7. When the bus ( blue in color) arrive, we hop on and inform the bus attendant to inform us when we reached Tanjung Benua. the trip is free ( called "Gratis" in Bali) and we were relieved. On the bus, we witness a mother breastfeeding her baby, not the normal scene we ussually find in a city like KL.
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| The bus route map of Sarbagita |
11am
When we reached Nusa Dua, the driver stopped to eat their lunch and all on board will rest for 15 minutes, we din waste any time, we get down and took nice photos around the place. Our journey continues and in 15 minutes, we reached our destination - Tanjung Benua. However, we realise that is actually called Betual we still have to go a distance before we reach our destination which the bus do not passed. We head on foot and also asked a few locals, all were quite blur. At last, i suggested we book a taxi for the day, if we continue on foot and bus, i dont think we are able to visit all the places we planned within today. So we hailed a cab and negotiate with him. We come to an agreement of Rp.300,000 per cab for 8 hours / 1 day.
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| The place where the bus stops for 15 minutes |
12 Noon
After arriving at a port which offers boat services to the turtle island, we negotiate the price till it comes to Rp.240,000 for a return trip to the island. We paid the price and went on to view the turtle sanctuary located 15 minutes from the jetty by speed boat. the boat we sat has a built in a glass on the floor for us to view the ocean below which the speedboat was moving.
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| The many types of boats docking at Tanjung Benua |
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| The Tanjung Benua harbour with clear blue sky |
12.15pm
Once there, we paid no entrance fees but a compulsary donation of Rp.5,000 ( To us,its a substitute of entrance fees ). A guide brought us to view all the different stages of Turtle from hachlings, to 1 year olds, to 2 years old. We are able to get down in the pond and touch or carry the turtle and take photographs. The guide also offered to take for us. ( these turtles especially the big ones are very heavy while you are posing for pictures). Other than that, we are able to take photos and hold different type of animals, birds and reptiles such as bats, parrot, young eagles, hornbill, and monitor lizard. After that, we left and return to mainland at 1pm.
1pm
We request the driver to bring us to a local warung for food as we wanted to taste the local food instead of the fast food or western food. etc. He brought us to a warung which serves cheap local food. My fren told me that "Sapi" is pork in Bali. After trying out only we knew that it is beef and we realise hat this warung is owned by a muslim which means no pork is served. As both of us dont consume beef, we left it and indulge in the rest of the food. Damage done : Rp40,000 which was quite reasonable.
1.30pm
Being a lover of postcards, i make it a habit to send postcards back home everyday i am on vacation or overseas. This trip is no different either. I brought some postcards of Bali from home ( Mum went to bali few years back n bought lots of postcards) which have pics of the places i am about to visit. So the driver took us to a post office to buy stamps, i bought all different kinds of stamps, some kept for the future postcards, to be post another day. I affix stamps to 2 of the postcards, today (16-Aug) and yesterday's (15-Aug) before posting it. Their postbox is just a drawer put outside the postoffice, i was shocked but there were other postcards and letters in it, so i gather its save , n wont get lost.
2pm
We were on our way to visit Pura Luhur Uluwatu, also known as "Coast with a temple in the background". More info can be found here -http://www.uluwatu.org/uluwatu.shtml.. Our driver reminded us to remove all jewelry, hats, scarfs, any removable items as there are wild monkeys roaming the place. It gave us 2nd thoughts whether to go, but we brave ourselves to visit one of the famous temple in Bali. Once there, we paid an entrance fee of Rp40,000 /pax. The place was huge, when we reach the coastal overlooking the vast ocean, it look alike the great wall of China. There was indeed a huge colony of monkeys roaming the place waiting for food bought and fed by visitors. We went taking memorabale photoshoots and touring the place before proceed to our next destination.
5pm
We reached Garuda Wisnu Kencana. The entrance fee is Rp60,000/pax and we have to pay for the vehicle too which was Rp5,000. This is where the status of GWK and its pedestal is situated. More info can be found here - http://gwk-culturalpark.com/. We went and visited the statue, and its surroundings, whats more, we are able to see Airport and Kuta from the highest hill and witness the sunset once again. At 6pm, we went for the Kecak Dance performance. After the dance, we are still not able to figure out what the dance is all about. But we decided to find out more later and proceed back to Kuta.
8pm
We reached Kuta town however, the food was overpriced, therefore we decided to proceed back to the hotel on foot and hopefully able to find food to fill our stomach on the way.. We passed by a warung which sells local balinese food, and decided to stop by and eat dinner before proceeding back to hotel.
9pm
Once at the hotel, we directly walked to Giant which we saw yesterday to purchase some snacks and water. It was a bit different from the one back home, lots of stuff not available back at giant in our home town. Then only we return to our room and rest for the night.
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