Friday, July 31, 2009

Time flies.......

..especially when you are having fun. The only thing I disliked about Bali were it's excessive charges on almost everything including the toilet!!!!! No doubt my favourite words were "Gratis ya Pak/Bu".

We stayed at JatiHomestay@Ubud. The package included a pickup service from the airport. So in a way we got to know the family who runs the business. Dewa was the son of the JatiHomestay. Ubud is a district that is well known for it's painting; so we stayed in a painter house and of coz he has lots of eye catching painting that I somehow missed to admire becoz of simply didn't have the time to spare.

Dewa arranged the tour himself... He brought us to many, many, many temples. Only by the end of the day we realised it so it was too late to visit other places. These are points to remember if you wish to tour Bali; 1 or 2 temple are enough. Bali offer so much more....

JatiHomestay .. the feeling so familiar.. just like kampung.

We even had a view of padi field...

Our breakfast and the view.....


The entrance
We stopped at a coffee orchard and
were served various type of coffee; Dewa in stripes.

Life in Bali is... relax. People seemed to have a lot of time in their hands. Of coz tourism is the heartbeat of the economic and everybody seemed to be running their own business be it food, home stay, art.... and the best part is they run the business from their own home so it is no wonder you can't find shop houses like in Kuching and the can take time to do things they like. How I wish I can do that.

Every family is a community them self. They stay together in one big area - macam a gated-community. This photo is the view from the stair why I stayed. You can see several houses.... They are all family.

The things I will do differently the next time is maybe to stay near the beach.... be pampered with massages and have a light and easy trip......

I can't say the same for Jakarta. The city are busy with traffic and polluted; like KL but I was a millionaire!!!!!!! It's a shopping haven - I love Mangga Dua!!!!! Didn't do much; but definitely will come back.....

Saturday, July 11, 2009

WOWWWW!!!


I came back a week ago. It was a tiring but fun journey. We left for Jakarta at 12.55am on a 30thJune and arrived at Jakarta Airport (Cengkerang Airport) at 1.45am Jakarta time (-1 hour Malaysia time). Our flight to Bali- Denpasar was at 6.45am so we agreed not to book any room but to wait at the T3 Airport (Indonesia for Inbound flights within its region). For all first timer; there is actually a free chartered bus to bring you from International Airport to T3 so don't take the 'kereta sapu' coz they charged IDR70k to IDR80k for a 5 minutes drive.

Dawn in Jakarta T3


Hubby managed to snooze...

We waited and managed to get some food to eat, more like an early breakfast at T3.


We ate here


and ate that.

The food are similar with what we have back home; lots of spices and a bit 'tawar' for me. I must say the people is just like us. Corruption every way; the rich become richer and the poor still very poor - that is in Jakarta. It was a different story when I reached Bali.....


I felt in love when I saw the island......




I felt in love with the culture, the places.....






It's people....













It's food...




Ok that's it for now... I will share some more when the next time.