I went to Bali for a short holiday trip recently. Had a good break from work, visiting a beautiful place and taking lots of photos. In fact, took so many till I don’t know where to start or which photos are worth to be posted and shared with everyone. After taking so long to compile, resize and watermark, (and procrastinating) it finally struck me that I have to write something about this trip before my memory fails me.
 
I’m going to break this trip posting into a few parts, mainly into day-to-day event instead of on a theme like just on the food or place.
 
Day One:
I don’t even know if this is considered day one, as we arrived in Denpasar at night, around 8.30pm.We were welcomed by the tour guide at the airport and were swiftly brought to a chinese seafood restaurant for dinner. In the restaurant, all of the patron are tourist. Not even a single table of locals eating. So you can guess that this place gives commission to the tour guides to get more foreign customers!!
 
Aquarium located just by the entrance…for customers to choose the seafood they want.
 
 
 
Among the food/drinks we ordered:
  
 
 
 
Fried egg with oyster (Tiram goreng telur)
 
 
These long beans (Buncis Secuan) were although simple, but very nice. There’s some dried shrimps and minced meat fried together with onions and garlic.
 
 
 
(Daging Ikan masak dengan Jamur)
 
 
(Lotus Bungkus dengan seafood)
 
 
 
All the dishes, there’s a choice of small (S), Medium (M) and Large (L) sizes but not by the nmber of people dining. Does it sound like choosing clothing size?? Can you figure out what’s the name of the food through the receipt? And look at the zeros in the pricing..hahaha.
 
 
 
There’s nothing much to be done after that other than checking in to the hotel located in Kuta area. 
It looked more like a 3-star hotel but it was cozy enough, with a twin sharing room given to us. Some had a good balcony view, facing the swimming pool while others had to look out to the busy street from their balcony.
 
 
 
 
Later during midnight, some of the guys were getting hungry so we walked out and experience the night life and stopped at one of a McDonald shop nearby. Yes, McD in Bali…well it was open 24 hours, that’s why we ended up there.
 
The pricing is quite cheap if you convert it to ringgit…
Guess how much is this beef burger a friend bought for himself.
 
 
 
It was just less than RM 2!!! But…look, there’s barely anything inside other than the beef patty.
 
 
 
A view from tthe hotel room in the morning.
 
The swimming pool in front
 
 
This is the view of the swimming pool behind the hotel. This hotel has two medium size swimming pool.
 
 
I was assigned to a room at the 1st floor (right corner in the pic below) How nice if we have gotten the one on the ground floor…I can just open the glass door and come out to the swimming pool area.
 
 
 
There’s a jacuzzi too nearby to the swimming pool…unfortunately we didn’t have time to use it throughout our stay there.
 
 
And right there is where we have our buffet breakfast every morning. If you think buffet breakfast is good…
 
 
 
Look at what food is served. The variety rarely change. Rice and Noodles are a main part of the local’s meal, so it’s always the same. Sometimes there will be fried chicken, sometimes omelettes, or bean curds/sausages.
 
 
Now on to our visits to the town area. Our first stop was to watch the Barong & Kris Dance, a local cultural dance of Balinese.
Barong Dance: This Balinese dance is about a contest between the opposing forces of chaos and destruction ("Rangda") and order (the "Barong"). 
 
 
 
 
 
And if you are wondering what is Barong (mythical lion-dog creature)….it looks like this
 
 
 
 
 
 
to be continued…..