2nd day...Sea Cruise & Swimming pool fun time!

2nd day in Bali

Sea Cruise & Swimming pool fun time!

(At the restaurant entrance)

(The pool view photo we took from our seats)

7.00am sharp the rooms phone rang! i wake up and answer the call, it was the morning call we requested from the hotel staff. So i make a call to Kelvin if they are awake, Yes...they already wake up before us, haha...i think they are quite excited for todays planning. We dont want to be late as our tour guide (Wayan) will come and pick us up at 8.30am. We will be on our way for our Sea Cruise trip! Cant wait..cant wait...really cant wait already! i love the sea!

Eating area.

This cruise will bring us to some where middle of the sea and lots of water activity there! But there is one very important things need to be done before we go....BREAKFAST! Hahaha...what is more important than the first meal of the day, and its gonna be a 5 star hotel breakfast! We quickly get our self clean and get ready for the breakfast. We meet Kelvin & Jenny at the front of the Hotel restaurant. We went in and found our self in a very comfortable environment restaurant. With the pool just under our restaurant, the view is just nice for our breakfast.

The food we take for the 1st round-2nd round forget to take photo as i'm busy eating...haha...sorry!

See...no lie...we really thumbs up! hahaha...

We get our seat at the open area and went inside the restaurant to get some food. Yummy! This hotel buffet breakfast is good, many variety and all looks delicious. They serve mix of local and western foods. We grab some and went back to our seats. The food looks good, how about the taste... we taste it and...thumbs up! especially for their local foods. Their fried noodle's is good & if u see closer to the photo i attach, the ham they serve is local pork ham. For those that can eat pork, this one is very good! We enjoy our first Bali breakfast, and then we went back to our room to get ready to go for the trip.


(The cruise ship we are going to take!)

(The waiting area before boarding the cruise ship)

Wayan came on time, 8.30am and pick us up, on the journey in the car. We realize most of the shop are still close. We ask and Wayan told us that on this time only some early market are open and most of the shop are only open around 10.00am . Well, Kuta is more famous with night life, not morning... so i think that will be normal. About 30 minute later, due to a bit of traffic jam, we reach! We get out of the car as soon as Wayan park it, haha...feeling excited! Wayan bring us to to a office beside the jetty to get our pre-booked ticket. We paid about USD 35 perperson for this cruise trip, a seafood Barbeque lunch is included. I think the price should be reasonable. i hope so...hahaha. After paying and get our ticket,we are told to wait a the side of the jetty for boarding the cruise boat. hmmm...if this is a boat jetty like Wayan say's, this is kinda nice one, seems more like a yacht club than a boat jetty. See the photo i attach. Well, while waiting for boarding...and with the nice windy enviroment, what is better than a photo session...haha. And we also get to know a new friend over here. A little but veeeeery active little guy. He follow and hang with us for awhile before his mum call him back to her.

(Two excited crazy fella)

(This little guys here is so energetic - non stop hopping around.)

(Two excited silly girl...haha- they gonna kill me for this!

(The design of the cruise looks more like a giant speed boat, cool!)

About 15 minute's later, we are informed we can go on board already! Yipeeeee! So we walk nearer to the ship and actually found out this ship was actually much bigger than we see from far.

(Nearer to boat)

(Inside of the cruise - lower deck)

This is the lower deck where we rest & take our lunch(the photo i attach above). We get our sit in the middle. After settle down with our bag's, we went up to the upper floor. The wind is just nice. And another lucky day i think ---> nice weather! haha~touch wood touch wood.The view from the upper floor is quite nice as the are like about houndreds of yatch over this jetty.

(Going to the upper floor)

(See...its more like a yatch club)

(Photo session on the upper floor)

I love this photo

We hang around on the upper floor for about 10 minute, take some photo, enjoy the wind & view. Then someone, i think is one of the ship crew informed us the ship will be start moving and request us to go down to the lower floor as the captain is going to explain some information of the trip to us. We get back to our seat's and the captain is already there waiting. So he start and let us know some information of this cruise and what we will be doing today. To make it simple, the cruise is actually included the following activities :-

- Return Hotel transfers - Morning & Afternoon tea (Serve once we board the ship)
- Canoeing
-Lunch (seafood Barbeque-serve at the pontoon)
- Snorkeling
- Banana Boat Ride
- Water slide (at the pontoon)
- Glass bottom boat ride (this boat will bring us to the village on a small island)
- Village tour

(The wind is so strong)

After the captain finish his speech, it's free & easy time again. The journey will take around 30 minute before we reach the pontoon. So i ain't gonna waste my time sitting here only, we went back up to the upper deck. The ship is actually moving in quite a fast speed, so the wind is so strong. Imagine a very big size speed boat. We spend our time on the top of the ship. And suddenly we heard the little boy shouting "mom...flying fish! there got flying fish!". So we look at the direction the boy is pointing and saw a group of flying fish (those type of fish that will jump on the surface of the water, the fin's of the fish is very big and make it look's like a pair of wing's-maybe that's how they get their name)!

(Ben~Jesp~Jenny~Kelvin)

Maybe due to a too heavy breakfast and focusing too much at those flying fish (i stare at it for more than 5 minute-what a mistake), i felt something rush up from my stomach going up to my throat. I rush down to the toilet and vomit, sea sick --->so an advise to all my friend, before u go to any sea trip better don't eat too much and if u are worried. U should take some sea sick pill's one hour before u go on board. I went back to the top and let them know, i am feeling so sick so i need to go down to have a rest. I ask them to enjoy themselves. i get back to my seat and l try to get a nap. So mood killing......zzz.

Sigh.....so mood killing...zzzz....

Soon, i feel the ship is slowing down and wake up to have a look. Oh...we are here. i saw a big yellow play ground. My mind is so excited...but my body is still feeling sick. The ship goes nearer and park it beside the pontoon. We are then inform to get on board to the pontoon. And the captain told me i will be feeling better after i get on the pontoon as it will be more stable on the pontoon. Well, it is. i did feel better after boarding the pontoon. This pontoon has many facilities build inside. Look at the photo below.

(They call this Pontoon)

The water slide goes straight into the sea!

Then some crew come and inform us that we can choose the activities we want to start 1st. Its either go to the village tour then only come back for water activities or the opposite way. So we choose the water activities 1st. We are told to get ready with our swim wear and the will be a small boat come to fecth us in about 10 minute's time. Ok...atlast we are going into the water. I start to feel better. We change and the boat came. About 16 of us will be in this boat, we are brought into a spot in the middle of the sea, here we notice something very interesting. The place our boat stop there is a very small floating wooden platform enough for 20 person to stand on it. The boat park beside and we go on platform and we will be snorkelling here. Its really in the middle of the sea. It's far enough until we dont see anything around us but just sea and sky! And about the interesting is we actually notice the water here in the place we stop is very calm but the water at about 300 meter from us is totally different! We can see the wave is very strong! It's like there are suddenly a spot in the middle of the sea that is so different. So we dont want to waste time and start our snorkeling. The water is clear and we saw lot's of beautiful fishes. The water is actually quite deep as i dont really see the bottom. Its a very enjoying time! The bad thing is...no photo as we have to leave our camera at the pontoon. But i'm sure those that went snorkeling before will know how much we enjoyed!

The 3 profesional local singer's!

About 1 hour later...times up. We need to go back to the pontoon already for lunch. Sigh...so fast?i'm still half sick and jumping into the water makes me feel so much better and u wanna bring me back already. What to do...so we head back and once reach, we smell something. Seafood Barbeque! We went to have a look saw the crew preparing our lunch. We get our self clean and dry. I'm still half sick so i get my privilege, i went back to the ship and just need to sit there wait for my lunch come to me. Jesp brought back my lunch to me! hahaha...being sick ain't so bad at all. When we are having our lunch, we heard someone singing so we look back. So nice, got 3 local singer singing. They goes from one table to another and u can request them to sing 1 song for u. Don't worry, its free...and the best thing is, they can sing in almost all language! We ask for an English song. The family sitting behind us(from Brazil) try to make fun of them and ask them to sing a Brazil song. They 3 look at each other...then start singing the Brazil song! The family was stunned with eyes open and claps begin to follow from all the table! Gambateh(Japanese)! Really PROFESSIONAL!

(In the glass bottom boat)

(Try to see...so many fish under the sea.)

1 hour for resting and lunch. I took a 15 mintue nap and when i wake up. Yes! I finally really get well already! Feeling energetic agan and timing is just nice! We are ask to go for the village tour now. We will be going with a boat the call glass bottom boat!So we are guided to board the boat. It's a small boat. Only 4 of us on it! Its a minte ride and we try out the underwater view from bottom of the boat. The bottom is build with many glass so that we can see the bottom of the see. We saw many fishes out there, this is 1 good experience! See the photo above.

Me and jes stay in the longer and i heard Kelvin shouting at me "Woi, we reach already!". Haha...so we went up and saw the small island we are going for the village tour. We get closerand we switch into a small boat to go on the island

(Getting nearer to the island)

(The small boat that bring us to the island)

The boat driver say someone will be expecting us on the island. And yes, after we go on shore, we are greeted by a local island tour guide. We ask what we are going to see and do on this island. He told us he will bring us to a sea weed farm, a small little market and visit a famous underground house. hmmm...i wonder what's that. A small pick-up truck came and pick us up, we sit at the behind off we go. The 1st stop is at the market, its really a super small market with only not more than 10 stall doing business. We did not buy anything . And then the tour guide ask us to follow him, he say the sea weed farm is just near by and we will reach by walking.

We walk and reach, we are actually standing on a cliff. About 200 meter from sea, down there we saw a sea weed farm! And i thought it's just going to be boring but NO! The view is just amazing! Its a very beautiful sight, from above we saw the sea was blue in colour and we can see a part of the sea looks like padi field(square blocks in the water). And many sampan lying on the sea...very beautiful....

Photo of the sea weed's farm from the cliff.

Closer look at those sea weed's

Then we are brought to a stall nearby selling those sea weed products. We saw some worker's at the side of the stall, they are drying up the sea weed's. We go closer to have a look of the sea weed's. Cute! It look's transparent and actually got 2 colour, 1 type is green and 1 is brown. We touch it and it feel's soft like jelly! They explain that they will dry it up and after dried it can be use to make many product's. Normally will be export out to other country's. And the stall owner offer us to try out some fresh made sea weed jelly. She brought out some from the a small fridge and we try it. The tastes is quite good, soft and sweet. She say it's easy to make it, just boil it in a hot water until the sea weed melt, mix some sugar slurp and put inside the fridge until it become jelly cake. Ok...enough for the sea weed jelly cake. The tour guide say's he will bring us to visit the under ground house.

The entrance of the under ground house!

Capture this photo from inside the house.

This is the exit where we come out from the house!

We travel for 10 minute's with the truck and we reach. We get down and follow the tour guide. On the way in we saw alot of well(like those in the photo i attach above), we thought it's just normal well but maybe already dried up long time ago and look's abit small. But then the tour guide stop in front of 1 of those well and tell us we are here! And this is the entrance. Huh? i thought this guy must be kidding.Under us is the hosue and this small rock hole is the entrance? haha...interesting, so he guide us into the house. Inside it's actually abit dark and very cooling ( maybe because we under the ground). No need to install air-cond...hahaha. Look at one photo i attach, the rain will pour straight inside and they will water water supply for daily use. Briliant. The tour guide say the house was actually build by a family during a war long long time ago. And this house saved the family from being discover.

Ladies carrying thing's on the head.

The village tour end's and we will be heading back to the pontoon and go back by the ship. On the way back i saw this lady carying thing's. It need alot of time to master this skill...haha.

Entrance of the our hotel swimming pool!

Looks grand right!

We reach back to hotel and get some rest. Clean ourself and will be going down the pool! Not enough of water activities from the sea, we wanna continue it with the pool...hahaha. So we gather up and go to the pool.

(The shack in the pool's.)

Pool's side

This is going to be a fun time! The shack, 1 big pool, 1 man made beach pool and the spa pool!Very enjoy with this outdoor spa pool, it has around 10 type's of design to massage your whole body! I also take this chance to try out my water proof camera! haha...it work's but it's harder to take photo under the water!

Fun time!

Photo under the water!

After spending bout 2 hour's in the pool. We are really very tired. We we got back to our room's and need to get a good rest. It was about 6.00pm. So we plan to go out for dinner at 8.00pm. That will be enough time to rest and maybe take a short nap.

Tired But Satisfied!

We sit at the 2nd floor.

Nasi Campur Special...Yummy!

This restaurant is all time full of customer.

8.00pm, we are ready to go for our dinner. We will be going to one of the restaurant Wayan recomend to us. This is a good restaurant for local food. Middle range for the price but with good service and delicous food! This is also a place that we go everytime we are in Bali. We order some food. I stick back to the Nasi Campur, Jes choose the Nasi Campur Special(more side dish). I forget what Kelvin & Jenny order but i remeber we also order 1 dish--->Honeydew Curry Chicken! Sound's interesting right? The tastes is even better!

Enjoying ourself at the beach pool are

(Jenny fall asleep over there)

After dinner we walk around the street. Then we grab some ice and a bottle of Sprite on the way going back. There are many convenience shop around this area. Normally i will go to K-mart, something like 7-11 in Malaysia. The reason why we grab those thing before back is because we bought a bottle of Vodka at the airport duty free shop. It's only 9 something and we plan to go back to the pool side.

Cheer's !!!

We remember they have some nice place to hang out at the beach pool area. When we reach the pool entrance...oh my...it's closed! With the thing's we bought, we thought for awhile, me and Kelvin look at each other. "don't care la". We sneak in quitely...we dont see anyone around. So we move faster to the beach pool side. Haha...feel like thieve's. So we get to our comfortable seat's and had a few drink's. Chit chat and have a good laugh of what we have done earlier of the day. They keep laughing at me about the sea sick! That's what u call friend...

Time's pass by fast. Jenny fall asleep when we are still chit chating. Maybe too tired. Haha...we had enough for today so we decided to go back and sleep. Tomorrow will be a totally different exciting day, we will be going up to a mountain to have lunch, visit some temple's and visit Ubud's area.

Bali - Day 1....

BALI HOLIDAY

(In Lcct-waiting for check-in)


(Kelvin & Jenny on the plane-they will order Nasi Lemak soon)

3 HOURS LATER......

(This photo is taken from the aeroplane)

On 18-02-2008...a group of four of us.....me, Jesp (my beautiful fiancee), Kelvin(my best friend since secondary school) & Jenny(Kelvin's lovely wife) reach Ngu Rah Rai airport, Denpasar. At last we are here after 3 hours on the plane. My legs are already in pain as the seat of Airasia aeroplane seems not to build for bigger size people like me...haha. But it only takes me seconds to forget about it because I’m just too excited to start our great holiday in this beautiful paradise island! We will be here for 4 Days 3 Night. Limited time but we hope can explore this beautiful island as much as we can!

(Finally, we arrive at Ngurah Rai Airport)


After checking out from the airport, we saw a guy holding a piece of card-board with my name on it. Yes...that our tour guide for this trip...recommended by one of my good friend. His name is Wayans (later on only we found out that all first child of each family in Bali is calling Wayans also). He guided us to his car, a brand new Toyota Advanza. Comfortable enough for the 4 of us as we saw many others will be using those older condition 4wd. Bigger size does’not means will be more comfortable....ha-ha.

(In the restaurant we have lunch)

(Nasi Campur)

So there start our holiday in Bali, first stop is to have our lunch. And of couse before i come i already did some surfing online to get some information about what to and not to do, food , place to go and etc. Well, be prepare is better than be regret later. So i ask the driver recommend us a place to have our 1st meal in Bali. And i ask for a place to try out their famous "Nasi Campur". In about 5 minute drive from the airport, we arrive at the restaurant. The look from outside is consider ok and when we go in, we are greeted by their friendly staff. Not 1 of those high class restaurant but nice enough for us, kinda have those Balinese feeling as there is many Bali wood craving. Then from the menu, 4 of us ordered the same thing...."nasi campur". Reminder to those that are 1st timer in Bali, do not drink their tap water and its recommend to drink mineral water. After chit chat for about 10 minute, our food arrive!Yummy!Nice and delicious!(see the photo i attach). Well, this is 1 kind of those local food that u must try!

(Hotel Hard Rock, swimming pool view)

After spending around 30 minute having our lunch, the next thing is we will head back to our hotel to get some refreshment and put down our luggage. After about 20 minute drive, we reach Kuta area, the heart of Bali. Let me share about Kuta with u all, Kuta is a town in southern Bali, Indonesia. A former fishing village, it was one of the first towns on Bali to see substantial tourist development, and as a beach resort remains one of Indonesia's major tourist destinations. It is known internationally for its long sandy beach, varied accommodation, many restaurants and bars, and substantial Australian population. It is located near Bali's Ngurah Rai Airport. And for those who actually like to get some enjoying nightlife. This is the place to be.

Back to our journey. The driver tell us we are almost there and yes, just after he say that we saw the scene of a beautiful beach and sea in front of us! We already book to stay in one of Bali best hotel, Hard Rock Hotel. We wanted to try this hotel because its just situated in front of Kuta Beach. And also near to Matahari Mall, Kuta biggest shopping mall ( its consider very big in Bali..haha).And not to forget, its also because of it beautiful swimming pool, 3 pools connected to each other and become a big pool!. It was near to many restaurant and shopping areas also.

So we get out of the car when Wayan park it in front of the hotel lobby. Two bell boy come and help us with our luaguae and we are guided to the check-in counter. On the way in we cross by a indoor bar, big enough to have a stage in the middle. We ask and the bell boy tell us that there will be live band performance every night and its free entrance for indoor guest. Hehe...this will be nice for tonight planing. The check-in counter did their job fast and with good manners, we are brought to our rooms. We went into the room, nice, spacious and clean! i took out my wallet, pay the bell boll 10,000rp(around rm4.00) and thanks him for his help. So we take a bath and have a rest in our beautiful room. We agree to meet Kelvin at lobby one hour later.

(Kuta Beach)

After about an hour we get ready and went down to the hotel lobby to meet Kelvin & his wife. We went on with our plan. Today, the 1st day we are just going to hang around the hotel area. So ofcouse the first place is just in front of the hotel. The Famous Kuta beach, as we walk nearer to the beach we saw alot of locals doing business along the beach and many tourist enjoying on the beach. Nice weather, Wayan told us if we arrive 1 week earlier, its raining everyday...lucky for us! The wave at this beach is much stronger than those in Malaysia.The waves can be stopping 1 feet from u then suddenly the next one crush up until our waist....and we are all wet!.Look at the photo as i been attach .We hang around the beach enjoy the sunshine and its just feeling so romantic.The beach is just so beautiful and relaxing. But we need to go soon because we will be going to Jimbaran to have dinner and view the sunset from there, so we go back to the hotel and clean ourself, our hotel is just across the road, so convinient...haha.

(Haha....like those romantic moments in the movie...)

We clean ourself and meet again at the lobby after an hour,then we will be heading to Jimbaran.Jimbaran has a long beautifull beach also and its famous for dinner because u can sit on the beach for dinner and enjoy the sunset(but i was told the dinner there was quite expensive!). After about 20 minute drive, we reach.But...we are quite dissapointed because Wayan make the wrong reservation for us, we are brought to a restaurant but the table are all indoor only....zzzzz... But nevermind, since we are there and we dont want to spoil our holiday mood. Luckily there is a door for us to go out to the beach to view the sunset. Very windy...we enjoy our the sunset and went in back to order our dinner, and hmmm...the price is really kinda over the normal. A small lobster at the size of my palm...around 8inch cost u about Usd 10. Since we are not going to get to have the dinner like we expected(on the beach), we discuss and decide to just order one fish and a vegetable, we just want to have a quick dinner.

(The sunset view outside the restaurant, Jimbaran)

We plan to get back to Kuta and get some food over there.I really dont mind because i will have the chance to try out more of their food....hahaha. So the next plan is go shopping and scout around kuta area. There is so many tourist on the street. All in their beach wear and that make the surounding seems so holiday feel! We went in some handicraft shops, painting gallery and some stall sellings Bali shirt. Wanna get 1 of them but....i dont think they will have my size...hehe. And Mr.Kelvin here dont wear shirt from stall (tepi jalan tak suka)...hahaha! Those handicraft and painting are just so incredibly nice! but the price is also incredibly kinda high....haha... .The walk is actually quite enjoying with many things to see so we walk walk and walk so far until the time we wanna go back to our hotel...opps...we feel its kinda tired to walk back to our hotel, so we thought of taking a taxi back. Then we notice some kind of transport passing by. Its those horse car( a kind of vehicle pull by a horse and handle by a driver,i forget whats the name already). The seats is for 4 person, just nice for us 4 of us. We stop one of them ask for the price. The driver ask for 100,000rp for the ride back to our hotel.But we remember one thing, ask for bargain for everything in Bali. We ending up paying 50,000rp only for the ride, the ride its actually quite good. We arrive at the front of our hotel 5 minute later. Before leaving we ask the driver if we can get a photo with the horse, he say yes, and tell us this beautiful horse is call Jacky. haha.

(Legian Street)

(This is Jacky!)

After saying goodbye to Jacky and the driver, we thought its still early and will be quite wasted to just go back to sleep now. And im still feeling abit hungry as the dinner just now is not full enough (im sure Kelvin also feeling the same, can tell from his eyes!). So we decide to find a place to have a drink and get some supper, we remember we passby some nice bar/pub on the way back,so we walk back and found 1 nice place (we went to this place on our 2nd & 3rd trip). Its bar and restaurant just 2 blocks away from our hotel.The enviroment is so relaxing and romantic, very suitable for those lovely couple. Its facing the Kuta beach and they have sofa seats outside the open area. We went in to have our dinner and after dinner we request to change to sit at the open area. Its too dark for us to see the sea but the sound of waves can be clearly heard...and the sea breeze. So relaxing...we add on some drinks, me and Jesp decided to try out their famous local beer. The Bintang beer-taste like Heineken but its suprisingly cheap!15,000rp for a big bottle of beer! No wonder i saw many tourist drinking this, cheap & nice! And maybe this is the reason why they also call Bali the achohol heaven! We really had some nice chat and laugh in this place. Looking at those tourist passing by, listening to the sound of the waves, enjoying the chilling wind...

Found this macho guy on the way to the Bar&Restaurant.

Enjoying outside the open area, those sofa beach is so comfortable....

Ok...we think thats for the 1st day of our trip. As we wanted and relaxing free and easy time in Kuta area. So we head back to our hotel to get some rest. Its going to be another exciting days tomorrow. We will be going on a sea cruise! So we have to get some rest!

2nd day....to be continuoue.....

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