The first place we visited today is Pura Taman Ayun. On the way there, we passed this paddy field where I saw many scarecrows. I don't think I had ever seen scarecrows before and certainly not scarecrows that fill up every corner of the small patch of paddy field. The ones that I knew, there were only one or two, right? But this one, memang banyak giler. Jangan kata burung la, aku pun takut!
Anyway, Pura Taman Ayun is basically a temple in a park. There was nothing much there, so we just stopped for a while to snap some pictures and then just walked around the temple.
For lunch, we went up to Bedugul, another highland place. Brrr... it's cold! And it was raining some more. Forgot the name of place we ate but it was here that I first tried Fish Satay and it was quite nice. There were fish satay also yesterday at the restaurant in Kintamani but I did not dare try it. After lunch, we went for prayers. There are Muslims here so there's a mosque but we had to take quite a number of steps to reach there. It was raining and the steps were steep and I lost my footing. Sakit wo! Nasib baik sikit jer kena... On the way down, Kak Nina said she wanted to buy strawberries so the bus driver brought us to this one place near a lake, where we found a souvenir shop and was stuck there for at least 30 minutes. Bought strawberries and surprisingly, I really like it. I never ate strawberries before by the way.
Then, off we went to Alas Kedaton, the place where there are many monkeys. Just imagine Trafalgar Square, but for monkeys instead. It was here that Umar was 'attacked' by one of the monkeys because it knows that Umar had bought some nuts. Kelakar but scary la jugak. Bengang je Umar cos he was wearing white pants that time and the monkey dirtied his pants. Heheheh... Love seeing the baby monkeys cuddling with their mother. Cute!
Our next destination was Tanah Lot, supposedly to watch the sun sets, but since it had been raining all day, we lost that chance. What is there in Tanah Lot? Lots of shops, but the main attraction is the temple (Pura Luhur) on an island surrounded by water. Not really interested to see the temple but I really like this one place we went to take pictures. Really nice. On the way back, stopped by at some of the shops but I did not buy anything cos nothing caught my fancy. Oh yeah, another thing that I really couldn't forget is when we saw a bat out of one of the shops but Umar was oblivious to it, so he was like standing very near to it. And then, he suddenly reached for something on the rack behind the branch the bat was hanging from and he did not even realize that the bat was there. Memang giler ok, cos a little bit more, who knows what would happen?
Our dinner for the night was at Made's Warung in Kuta,the posher part of the island, where we sat in front of the display of cakes. Everything looks mouth-watering, and upon seeing them, Syara insisted on having a slice, so Kak Ya had to order the Black Forest one for her. It was like 'Indah Khabar dari Rupa'! Tak sedap langsung k. Thankfully we didn't order for ourselves. The dinner itself was not so very good due to the fact that we cannot eat chicken and were therefore left with nothing much except the fried rice (which we later realized had some chicken in there), the veggie (which we thought was kangkung at first but it was something else altogether) and the fish soup which thankfully was nice.
Went back to the hotel to pack for tomorrow's journey to Jogjakarta. And then, decided to lepak near the beach cos we didn't get a chance to enjoy the beach at all. Kak Syida ajak-ed Eddy along so there we were, talking and getting to know each other and it was only after 12.30 that we went back to our rooms.
Anyway, here's another tidbit about Bali:
- You know how Muslims have to bersunat and everything? Bali peeps did not have that kind of thing but instead they have to potong their gigi taring (as in, ratakan). If the person is old and still has the taring, they believe that bad things are still there in the body of that person. Girls have to do it when they reach puberty while the boys have to do it by the age of 19 kot. I'm not so sure...
to be continued...
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