BALI - Day 2 (15-10-10)

Day 2 - started at early morning where we have to reach Sanur by 10am to watch the cultural dance - The Barong and Kris Dance. This popular cultural dance took place at Desa Budaya Kertalangu, located up north from Kuta. The show has 4 main scenes and quite interesting eventhough it was not really understandable for all of us - especially me! I went to the front of the stage and took lots of photos and not really concerned on what's happened on the stage, hahaha!

Next, we travelled further up north headed to Bedugul and stopped for lunch. The buffet style lunch at one of the unknown restaurant was nice where the dishes include Sate Lilit and Bana Fritters with Vanila Dip Sauce, nice! We then off to see Ulun Danu Beratan Temple, one of the famous temple in Bali. The image of the Ulun Danu Beratan Temple can be seen at the back of Rupiah 50,000 note. UNFORTUNATELY during the visit, the temple had an ongoing renovation. Although it's still open to public, the view for photo shooting was not nice with all the bamboo scaffolding, damn! BUT (there is more and more BUT!), after taking photos and walked to till the end, the weather turned chilly and foggy and after few minutes, the place was very breathtaking!

Our next stop was Tanah Lot, (which actually sounds 'Tanah Laut'), the place for sight seeing, sunset photography, and last but not least is SHOPPING! Sunset was not on our side that eve but I just snapped and snapped and snapped and then went for Shopping! Me and Suhaimi went hunting for the nicest and the most creative painting they have. We went from shop to shop bargaining for the best and lowest price they can offer. As time is running out, I ended up buying 1 painting with the price of 350,000 Rupiah! The painting is really awesome with the colors and acrylic dots which make it really artistic!

Dinner time, we headed to Pondok Tempo Doeloe (Pondok Tempo Dulu) back in Kuta. The place was great and the dishes were...SUPER! With at least 3 dishes of fish (deep fried, sweet sour & soup), lamb and chicken, potatoes with nasi himpit and the humble and unforgettable sambal belacan - this place ROCKS! and rated 2 thumbs up from most of us.

After dinner, the guys planned to head up to Kuta town for night life experience but...the night was blessed by heavy rain c/w lightning and thunder! So, I went up and zzzZZzZZZzzzzzz......

- End Of Day 2 -