Saturday, May 16, 2009

Day 3 ~~ Sanur Beach - Ubud - Tanah Lot - Sanur Beach

3rd day – 15/5/2009 (Friday)
Bali, Sanur – Bali, Ubud – Bali ,Tanah Lot – Bali ,Sanur


Rent a motorbike. Again, if you planning to rent a motorbike don’t forget the key word – bargain! 1st shop charges me 60,000 rph for 1 day, 9am till 7pm at night. But with help from KG’s worker, we get 50,000rph from 9am till the next day 9. No documentation require *(“,)*. Just pay cash and they give you the motorbike. Cool! Petrol is around 10,000 rph /RM3 ++ for full tank. More then enough for 1 day journey.
Don’t forget to ride slow and be careful ok.

1st destination for the day – UBUD !
KG’s worker warn us that it’s going to be a long journey. But, it's an adventure that we’ve been waiting for so long! So we decided to go on with our plan and get ourselves a map (25,000rph/RM 7-8) from Bagus store.


Interesting stuff happened during our journey to UBUD. While we was struggling with the map, a local offered help when we stop at the traffic light (@.@ like that also can). 1st we think wao~~~ Balinese are real nice people. But ended up he want to bring us to the silver souvenir shop he working with, then he will show us the way to UBUD. Well, no harm to explorer more stuff, so we follow him - see the process of the handmade silver ear rings and come out empty handed (not buying anything) Smart right ! >.<
That guy who brought us to the silver shop keep offering help, wanna show us places in Bali. We rejected him nicely. And then he start some story like, local police like to stop tourist (with vehicle) and get money from them. That can be avoided if a local is with the tourist kind of story. I don’t like the story. We left.

Finally, after almost 3 hours, we reach UBUD! Hee.. well, we did stop at the road site for food (local Balinese food and Ibu Oka famous Babi Guling) and ask for direction and stuff.
UBUD is so~~~ beautiful! The weather is a bit chill. We was so happy to reach there although our butt hurts a lot :P . It’s a place fill with old Balinese building and padi field. This place is totally different then Sanur or Kuta. Warning: Do not take, hold or let the locals put any of their stuff in your hand. They will not take it back until you agree to buy it. You don’t want to waste your energy and time pushing those thing back to them. Trust me, It’s hard work !



Ok, move on to Tanah Lot. The floating temple. Take another 1.30 hours to reach there. During this 1.30 hour. Same thing happened. Help offer from local. But this time, this guy did not bring us to the souvenir shop instead he ask for the bangles my sis was wearing when we stop to say thank you. Scary!
Tanah Lot is ok. By the time we reach, it’s around 4pm. Not yet sunset. But the beach was filled with people. Lucky it's low tide, my sis managed to cross the water and walk to the temple with help. She was blessed with the holy water,flower and rice but was not allowed to go up to the temple. Wasted! The Temple was closed down, and no visitor are allowed to go up there :)
Leave Tanah Lot, took another our (maybe, lost track) back to Sanur, KG. TIRED !!!!!! We all covered by black dust, no kidding, water turn black when shower! My god! We are dirty!

Balinese massage again :P

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