Back from Bali
Thursday, December 30, 2010, 12/30/2010 08:10:00 PM
Hey, i'm back from Bali. That island was truly fascinating! Our accomodation, The Palm Suite Villa was WOW with a personnal swimming pool! 5 days were really not enough, how I hope we could stay there for a few more days. Indeed it was an unforgettable trip with Duke, Trevor, Amberlyn, Faezah, KaiYan, Zelda, WenQiang, Dinesh and not forgetting Wei Cheng for organizing such a mesmerizing trip. Now i'm thinking of having the next trip because the experiences were really haunting me to go for more overseas trip!
This are the events that we did.
Day 1 - After we touched down at the Airport, we took a 12 seater van, our main transport for the next four days to have our lunch before heading to our accomodation called The Palm Suite Villa at Sanuar. Once we got in, we were WOWed by what we saw. A two-storey bunglow like house with a personnal swimming pool and 3 bedrooms with hugh beds greeted us. The staff were also very nice and friendly. We tooked tons of photos and changed in our swimming gear and jumped into the pool that is seducing us. After that, we changed, had our dinner and head down to legian and indulged in Bali nightlife, a Christmas night.
Day 2 - We went to Tanjong Benoa Beach, famed for it's watersports activities. We did Scuba Diving, Flying fish and Donut Ride. Scuba Diving was addictive. Getting so close to the corals and feeding the marine fishes 6-10 metres under water. Flying Fish was relaxing. It is a ride where you lay down on an inflated boat. A rope is attached to the speedboat and once a certain speed is reached, the boat will fly up and you could have a low ariel view of the boundless sea. Donut ride was fast and exciting! You sit on an inflated boat with a rope attached to the speedboat. The speedboat speeds ahead with full force and made turns. You will fly out the inflated boat if you do not hold on tightly. After that, we proceed to a nature made scenery which I really love alot. It is a blowhole at Nusa Dua. How I wish I have the photos with me so that I can share it. But if you would like to know what is a blowhole, go to google images and google it under Bali Blowhole. In my own terms, it is actually a nature made hole of rock formation at the side of the sea, with gallons of seawater gushing into the hole at an incredible speed and directions. It will hit the rock and formed a splashing water fountain. Truly mesmerizing, with the help of the great sun ray. After that, we did some roadside shopping. You have to slash the price more than 60% if you don't want to be "Cai Tau".
Day 3 - Our main destination is to GitGit Waterfall and It was a 2 and a half hour ride from our villa. On our way there, we dropped by a place which introduce visitors to Coffee, one of the famous product in Indonesia. Tried a few drinks including the famous Premium Luwak Coffee and we also got a chance to see the cute Luwak. We also stopped by a roadside stall that sell pork meat. It was really delicious, thanks to the recommendation by our driver. We also had lunch buffet at a restaurant that has a view of mountains and rice fields below it. Then, we reached the GitGit Waterfall. It was HUGE! We got all wet just trying to get near the waterfall to take some nice photos. But it was really worth it for the long journey ride. While on our way back, we bought some strawberries. We had some local mee goreng and fried rice. It was nice and cheap! Only 7000rupiah per packet. Had a great idea on how we are going to spend our night at the Villa. We decided to dip in the pool while watching DVD that we bought and indulge in the sweet strawberries.
Day 4 - Today, we went for White Water Rafting in the morning. Wasn't as thrilling as the one that I had in Perak but it was rather a ride that was long and relaxing, with the nice beautiful scenery of mini waterfall, tall trees and rock formations. Got the chance to dip and swim in the cool river too. After that, we proceed to Kuta Beach to enjoy the breeze. Then we went to the nearby streets and shopping mall to shop. There was one ridiculous experience that I would like to mention. WeiCheng wanted to buy a Bintang towel. We had asked alot of shop and their initial quoting price was around 80000 rupiah. This shop that we went to, his initial quoting price was a ridiculous 250000rupiah! What a vast difference. In the end, we bought it from another shop for the price of 40000 rupiah. (FYI, S$1 = 6850 Rupiah). Flying fireworks are very common in Bali. We bought some of it and went back to our villa to put it. It was our first time cherographing our own fireworks display and it was an experience.
Day 5 - We decided to go for a relaxing massage in the morning. It was truly a "unique" and "unexpected" experience. Hope next time we can go to a proper one instead but still we did get our massage. Rush back to our villa and prepared for our flight to Singapore.
It was truely an unforgettable trip. How I wish we could stay there longer. Of course, this trip is fun because of the amazing companions! Can we go for another trip soon?
Cheers~
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