Bali 2009 - Day 6 & 7

DAY 6

Nothing much to do today so just head to KUTA for some shopping. Bought some ladies dress and bags. Nothing much to buy also cause Kuta shopping is almost the same compare to last year visit.

Stop by Ocean Beach Club @ Kuta Beach for some drinks and snacks while enjoying the last sunset in Bali.

After a nice shower in our room, head to our Ultimate Dinner @ Warisan Cafe, Seminyak. We will at least do this once in our trip!!


This restaurant has very high review online. Its consider fine dining and the price of the food are almost par with Huu Bar and Ku Da Te. But for the enviroument of the restaurant, its more to casual dining.

Apetizer - Mushroom Ravioli with Shrimp

Apetizer - Hot Foie Gras with Cranberry Sauce. Only around RM60. Very cheap compare to KL. Our favourite dish.

This restaurant also has a gallery that sells paintings and craft.

Mains - Braised Veal in Tomato Sauce

Mains - Grilled Garlic Chicken with Mushroom & Foie Gras Ravioli

Buttered Risotto. Come with the Veal.

Dessert - Hot Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Ice Cream. Heaven!!!

Check out the melted chocolate thats flows out!! Yummy!!!

5 star food, 5 star service!! Total bill = RP1million (RM320) without wine!! ho ho......



DAY 7


Last day in Bali. Get up early, walk out from the hotel to do our last minute shopping nearby. Bought some Bintang T-shirts, Bintang towel & Bintang shorts... haha... a bit fanatic!! Back to hotel, enjoy our last few hours in Bali @ the hotel pool. Shower, pack our luggage and head to the airport at 2pm.


BYE BYE BALI and i will be back next year... for many many years to come.... haha!!!

Bali 2009 - Day 4 ( Private Day Tour ) Part 2

Reach Tirta Empul Temple at around 2:00pm. Actually visiting this temple is my main reason for this 2nd visit to Bali. After some hard time in my business and financial problems for the pass 1 year, one of my friend recommend me to visit this temple to perform a holy bath, hope to change my bad luck.

Pura Tirta Empul is located at a small town called TampakSiring, north of Ubud. The water at Tirta Empul is considered to be the holiest on the island, and to possess ‘miracle’ healing powers. It came from ground water spring.

As instructed by our driver, we have to wear a sarung and get in to the 1st pool. This pool only have 2 spring water. The water is very cold and refreshing. We head to a spring water, pray for what we want, and bow for the numbers of age, under the spring. ( im 30 years old so i bow for 30 times ). After doing so, go to the 2nd pool, which has around 10 spring water. Our guide told us that we can't go for all the spring water due to this is our 1st visit. If we do so, tomorrow morning we will be very tired and feels very lazy. So he only ask us to go for 1 spring water. Do the same thing as the 1st pool.

After the Holy Bath, change to dry cloths and continue our tour in the temple. Our driver give some donation and asked a priest to pray for us. We squad down on the floor, the priest gave us some colorful flowers. We just follow what our driver do, pick up certain color flowers and hold it with our palm together, pray for what we want. Do the same thing to the others color flower. Then the priest will sprinkle some water on our head, then gave us some rice. We have to eat some of it, just a few pieces, then stick some on our forehead and some on our neck. The end of the ceremony.

Some tourist found weird that we are the only who can do this. This is the different between a good driver and a bad driver... haha... Very good experience.

Feel so damm hungry after the bath, head to UBUD for our lunch. We had decided to go for BEBEK BETUTU this time, since we already had BABU GULING last year. Still miss it but want to try something new.

Bebek Betutu is a traditional Balinese Dish. Bebek means duck, Betutu is a popular dish where chicken or duck are wrap in banana leaf, slow roasting with a lot of spices and herbs for at least 4 -5 hour. Advance booking is required if you wish to eat this in BALI. It takes an overnight marination to make this famous dish.

We decided to go MURNI'S WARUNG, voted the best restaurant in Bali that serve BEBEK BETUTU. We invite our driver to had this lunch together with us.

Smell so good. Looks so yummy!! Im hungry already!!

Serve with Kunyit Rice. Taste so good too..

Check out the clean bone and u will know how tender the meat are. You can just pull the bone out of the meat very easily!

Beautiful view while having our lunch. There is a river underneath.

Some statues in the restaurant.

Dessert Section.

The lunch cost us around rp200,000 plus, for 3 of us. Very cheap.

After lunch around 5pm, we head to our last location of the day. GOA GAJAH.

The Goa Gajah, that literally means Elephant Cave, 10mins from UBUD. It is a cave shaped in the form of the letter "T". It was a monastery for the Buddhist and Hindu monks in the ancient times. The monks used to meditate in these caves.

The entrance exhibits depiction of animals, entangling leaves, waves of the ocean and rocks. The monstrous Kala head or the human shaped head depicts as if it split opens the rock with its hands at its entrance. The interiors of the cave are decorated with shrines. An elephant statue also stands inside the Goa Gajah cave.

This pile of stones previously was a temple building. It collapse after an earth quake.

The holy bathing pool in Goa Gajah.

The broken Buddha Statue.

Leave Goa Gajah at 6pm. Reach LEGIAN to check in THE LOKHA HOTEL at 7:30pm. We are going to spend our last 3 nights here. Book this hotel from MATTA fair. Cost us less than RM600 for 3 nights.

Total duration for this tour is 9.5hrs. Pay our driver rp450,000 + 50,000 tips. Very happy tour & hope to see him again on our next visit.

to be continue...

Bali 2009 - Day 4 ( Private Day Tour ) Part 1

Wake up at 8am today. Luckily didn't get hang over from last night beer. Pack our luggage and get ready for our Private Driver Day Trip.

For you info, one of the best way travelling in bali is to hire a Private Driver. The price is already include transport & gasoline for 8 hours trip. If more than 8 hours, tips is expected. You can tell him where you want to go and they will bring you plus he will explain the information at each location. Price vary from rp250,000 - rp500,000m depends on the quality of the driver.

Hired this driver from Internet. Cost me rp450,000 (RM150). Which is not very cheap, but its worth the amount of money. You can easily get any driver on the street which will only cost you rp250,000. but most of them with this price are not very good in English and they will bring you to those shopping places that pays them commission. The driver i hired is call WAYAN MERTA. he is very famous and had his own website. http://www.bali-paradise.com/see-bali/. But unfortunately today he is too busy to come with us. so he send his cousin and he is as good.

Check out hotel at 9:30am. Hop into the car and head to our 1st stop. KINTAMANI.

Pass GIANYAR TOWN, head north. Checking out the view from the car, get to see a lot of rice field and kampung. after around 2 hours, reach KINTAMANI.

KINTAMANI is a town famous for the panoramic view of MT. BATUR. Mt. Batur has erupted about 24 times since 1800. the most recent eruption was in 1993. Until today we still can see the cooled lava (black) from the 1993 eruption.

We were already "wahhh..." in the car before we get out. The view is just too stunning. When we step out from the car, the weather here is very cooling. Around 20c i think. Plus the sky is perfect today. Less cloud and big sun. We get to see Mt. Batur very clearly. Quickly take some photo and stand there speechless to enjoy the view. Then those street vendors come kacau. ask you to buy this buy that. We keep saying NO, Thank you... but they just wont give up. The driver ask us back to the car and bring us to another viewing spot that is without street vendors. Very good idea.

Batur Lake & Mt. Abang on the right.

Mt. Batur. Active volcano. Those black color are the cooled lava from 1993 eruption.


2nd viewing spot. at last we can enjoy the view without interruption.

Panoramic view of Mt.Batur. The building at the side are restaurants.

Kintamani Streets.

Mt. Batur Volcano Museum

After around 20mins enjoying the view, we know we have to leave to catch time. head to Mt. Batur Volcano Museum. Pay rp6000/ person for entrance. They offer us a free Movie in their cinema room about the history of Mt.Batur, because at the same time they are a group of student in there. They already pay for it. haha... very lucky... after the short movie than we walk around the museum. Get to see a lot of info about volcano eruption, lava stone, equipment, etc.

Leave KINTAMANI at around 12:30pm. The driver offer to bring me to see local made BALI COFFEE, which is not in my planned itinerary. Why not??


Here, we get to see how Balinese make their own grown coffee the traditional way.

Step 1 - Harvest raw coffee bean.


Step 2 - cook coffee bean in a wok for 1 hour, using indirect heat from wood fire.


Step 3 - Cooked Coffee bean, smell damm nice, let it cool.


Step 4 - Crush coffee bean into powder form.

Final product.

Faye in action!!

After looking at the process, go to their coffee tasting section. Its free.


There is some Balinese tobacco on the table, which is free also. Rolling rolling... hehe...


All the coffee and tea here taste not bad. We love the Lemon Grass Tea.

Get to try LUWAK COFFEE. Kopi Luwak or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet. The civets eat the berries, but the beans inside pass through their system undigested. It has been proposed that enzymes in the stomach of the civet add to the coffee's flavor by breaking down the proteins that give coffee its bitter taste. The beans are washed, and given only a light roast so as to not destroy the complex flavors that develop through the process.


Basically, the coffee bean are harvested from the Luwak Shit!! Very rare type of coffee bean and its the most expensive coffee bean in the world. Selling for between $100 and $600 USD per pound.


Taste very different from normal coffee, quite bitter, but i like it.



After the tasting section, head to their souvenir shop, buy some Lemon Grass Tea, Spices and Dark Chocolate.



Back on the road and head to the next stop.... Tirta Empul Temple for Holy Bath.




to be continue........