Bali Trip - Part IV
After having another round of so-so breakfast at the hotel, we went to Tanah Lot. Tanah Lot, a perfect place to enjoy sunsets and there’s a temple as well. I suggest you visit Tanah Lot during evening time instead of morning though. However, the view during the day time isn’t that bad too.
There’s a temple at Tanah Lot too. At the cave (bottom of the rock), there’s a holy place where it’s really holy and mysterious. When it is high tide, the sea water will roughly cover / flood the cave. However, when it is low tide, there’s a fountain that flows out plain / holy / mineral water, not sea / salty water. High tide, it’s covered with sea water. Low tide, it’s plain water.
There are lots of shops and stalls at the Tanah Lot’s square. Be sure to check it out as they sell a huge variety of items such as beaded shoes, T-shirts, handicrafts, paintings, artworks, dresses, pants and etc. I didn’t buy anything unless you want to count the hat that I used to protect myself from the heat rays.
After that, Wadthir (our driver / tour guide) drove us to Bedugul for sight seeing and lunch. Bedugul is another highland in Bali which is like1300 feet (meter?) above sea level. There’s a lake up there, it was formed after the volcano went dead, very similar to Lake Toba. The weather is very cooling and there’s even strawberry plantation nearby. There were peddlers selling strawberries and we bought 3 packets of freshly picked strawberry for RP50000 / RM20. You can do jet skiing at the lake too! Although it was about to rain when we reached there, we had ample time to take photos before it rained cats and dogs.
We had lunch at this restaurant, which is directly opposite the lake. The food tasted much better than than the previous 2 days. We didn’t opt for the buffet this time. I ordered nasi ayam bertutu, which tasted something like a dry version of gulai. It was delicious, really. The rest had nasi goreng, nasi ayam goreng and spaghetti.
While we were going downhill, we saw many durians stalls. My mum, being the durians fanatic, decided to stop at one of the stalls to try out the Balinese durian that ended up as a normal durian. The price was expensive too, RP60000 / RM24 for 4 durians.
We visited a few more places to kill time since we wanted to watch the Kecak Dance at 7.30PM. We went to Sanur Beach (A not-as-popular-as-Kuta-Beach-beach.), a Bali monument (It’s something like museum, telling the history of Bali island.), the royal family’s “official” temple (Nothing special about it, just another temple in Bali.) There were some ceremony going on and people were carrying their offerings (food) to the temple. We didn’t stay long enough as it was drizzling.
Kecak Dance is another traditional Balinese dance. However, the story unfolds slower and more boring than Barong Dance, although both of them were talking about good versus evil. They don’t have musical instrument, but they have a team of 60 men singing “Cak Cak Cak… Cak Cak Cak Cak Cak Cak” throughout the 40 minutes performance. I would recommend you to watch Barong Dance, but definitely not Kecak Dance. Furthermore, the show started at 7.30PM and the hall were dark, a little bit of mosquitoes and very hot. No matter how I tried, I couldn’t get a decent shot throughout the whole show.
It was too late to do any sigh seeing and the allocated time for our tour guide has ended. We went back to hotel and headed back to Petit Cafe for our dinner. I ordered ginger ale beef with white rice. It’s something like stir fried beef with gingers and onions, but much spicier. My sisters ordered seafood in green curry (or something like that) with white rice, chicken curry with white rice, two sets of gulai mixed sea food with white rice and black pepper steak. The bill came up to roughly RP230000 / RM92 for 6 of us, if not mistaken.
I’m sure everyone enjoyed the dinner throughout our stay in Bali, but not for my mum. Never mind about her, trust me, this cafe is worth trying out. Unless you can’t take spiciness, make sure you ask for extra pedih (hot / spicy / chilies). The restaurant is at Legian, next to Nikomoto Hotel (Not sure about the name, but it’s a Japanese name.). Other landmarks to watch out are the All Season Hotel. Give it a try if you ever happen to be in Bali and at nearby the place.
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December 27th, 2006 02:11
Hey Jason,
Came across ur blog on the net. I am also a food luver / enthuthiastic. U may not know me but there is one very very good restaurant that I want to recommend to u. The restaurant is called Wok & Pan : East Meet West Cuisine which is located at Plaza Mahkota in Malacca. It is quite a new shop for it has only been opened for less than two years. I have been there many many times and they prepare /serve the most delicious of asian and western cusiine.The food is to die for and so is the ambience, service, environment. They are really famous for their pork chops and it is a must try when u are at there. It is a nice cosy little shop which is painted in a striking bright orange colour. The owner of the shop ( Wok & Pan ) whom prepares all the delicious/tasty food used to be an executive chef from a five star hotel ( Renaissance Melaka Hotel ) before he retired and started his own business together with his loving wife. If you really wanna write a review on high quality food, this is a restaurant that I will seriously recommend to u. No kidding. “For all the good food, the prices are also very very reasonable too.
Till than. Cheerios !
December 27th, 2006 10:06
Your pictures are beautiful, makes me want to go there now. Oso food looks yummilicious and durian, no nid to mention dat one wan lah, my favorite fruit. Again you take very good pics, wish I had such a good eye.
December 27th, 2006 15:40
Hi there,
I see that you visited Bali at last. I was the blogger you talked about getting the van for RM120 bucks a day. Hehe
How was the trip?
Did you get to see the sunset at Tanah Lot?
December 27th, 2006 22:17
Sceneries are superb!!
Why u demand ur sisters to do JUMP? hahahaha
December 28th, 2006 05:34
man, you look like an ang-moh in the third picture! teeheeheee
Happy Christmas to you…
picture overloaded d..:P
December 28th, 2006 08:11
war…. i went to the same place 2 years ago… ^^
December 28th, 2006 16:12
Jason,
very nice trip to Bali o..the woman with white shirt is ur mother? U and her looks alike ler.
December 28th, 2006 18:18
u didn’t go try the famous babi guling @ ubud? hehe…
December 29th, 2006 02:49
Too bad you didn’t enjoy the Kecak Dance which is actually more mystical and exotic compares to Barong Dance…again..maybe you were at the wrong place to watch it *grinz*, I would recommend Uluwatu to watch Kecak Dance (open air) by sunsets.
December 29th, 2006 04:10
Food Luver : I have heard of that restaurant, and I also been there. But then, that time I wasn’t really eager to blog about them yet as the food I ate tasted so-so. However, since you recommend it so much, I will give the restaurant another chance and blog about it.
Fire Horse : Time to make a trip back to Malaysia and do some traveling around SEA? :P I take good pictures? LOL. There are much better photographers out there ler. I am just a n00b.
Inevitable : I always got your URL wrong, I don’t know why. It always lead me to another blog and I couldn’t find the right URL. -sweat- Nope, didn’t get to see sunset at Tanah Lot, because we were there during early morning. -sweat-
Cely : Because I am so fat that I can’t jump high enough loh. :P
Moopig : Ang moh pulak~ LOL. Merry x’mas to you too.
Aprilcherrie : I think everyone who went Bali will visit the same place ler. :P
Irene : Yup, that’s my mum.
Oliviasy : You just rubbed salt into my wound. I didn’t get to eat, neither the babi guling nor the bebek bengil.
Carboqueen : I did went to watch the kecak dance, which is written in this post as well. That proved you didn’t read properly or just skim through. LOL. But, it’s okay. I don’t like kecak dance because the dance / story is too slow, and the costumes / characters aren’t interesting as Barong. And I hate the part where they keep on go “cak cak cak cak”.
February 22nd, 2008 10:27
Hello!
I know the petit cafe from the visit 2006 and 2007. It is grat food and very friendly people in there. The owner is very nice, the staff ( Mela, Dobey and all
the others) is great.
I am looking forward to see them all again November 2008
Bye
Andreas
February 22nd, 2008 11:17
Andreas : I didn’t get the visit them when I was in Bali for the second time.