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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