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Day 3 in Bali. Remember last night we went up to Ubud and stayed overnight here, so today we start from Ubud.
Let’s see, first stop we’re going to visit is to eat! The very famous Babi Guling Ibu Oka. But when we reached there, the waitress told us the babi haven’t guling yet. Hahaha. So we have some time to explore the town of Ubud a bit. The restaurant is quite near to the art and craft market, just 3-5 minutes walk. But in between the market and the restaurant, there’s this temple.
Not sure about the name of this temple, but if you’re at the Restaurant Babi Guling Ibu Oka, it’s just opposite it. So we don’t care, actually more like I don’t care about what temple it is, got nice temple, shoot la! Hehe…
Steven’s asked me to take a picture of him and the temple guardian.
Inner entrance of the temple. A lot of doors, don’t know which one will lead to where.
Sue and Dom with the stone wall carving.
After we came out of the temple, with a little walk, here’s the market of art and craft. Didn’t really captured the impression of how big this market is, it’s actually quite big, not just this front street. Behind these shops got a lot more stuffs to see. Be sure to check them out if you’re there.
Next to the market there’s this place for people to pray, kinda like a shrine. You can see stacks of Canang Sari on top of each others.
A woman behind the market place carrying super tall fruit basket walking towards the market place. Strong neck aunty!
Tourist walking in front of the temple mentioned earlier.
Here we are! Around 11am++, we’ve come back to the restaurant and the babi is guling-ed already! So we sit down and ordered ourselves a mix set with a little bit of this and that.
Here’s how the mix set looks like. Here you can see the sauce covering the meat, then on the left you have some vegetables, further up is the pork skin. Covered by the pork skin there’s some intestines (I think they fried those). Then there’s the rice also. Babi guling, it’s actually kinda like Siu Yok for chinese. After trying this, I still prefer the Siu Yok. 
Look at Sue acting! Hahaha… she actually doesn’t like the babi guling that much also. 
After the meal, we went up. Our destination is to Mount Batur. But on the way there, we stopped to look at some nice paddy field sceneries. The place we stopped is a cafe for people to sit and enjoy some Balinese coffee while enjoying the paddy field scenery. Then I saw this notice. I also saw the farmer there. So, better avoid shooting him la, so lansi, he should pay me for shooting him.
This is the nice paddy field scenery you can see from the cafe. So nice, not sure if Malaysia got this kinda paddy field or not.
Turning gold.
Ducks can be seen in the field. Yum~
Blue sky, green paddy.
Duck shooting? Hahaha.
Like this shot. The guys enjoying the paddy field. Dom downgraded to Sony compact while Bird upgraded to the Canon Professional 1Ds. Hahaha…
Evonne like rice.
Sue enjoying her coffee, Bali style~
After the paddy field, we continue our journey to Mount Batur. We were all shocked to see such beautiful scene of this Volcano. Breathtakingly nice~ The black coloured stuffs below the mountain is not shadow, those are actually lava!
Next to Mount Batur, there’s the Lake Batur. Very pretty looking also.
Here’s a panoramic view of the whole scene. One word… very nice~
Looking at Mount Batur, you can feel the cool breeze blowing towards you, something like Genting, but less moisture. I think the lava emits a not so welcoming smell around the area. But the view overcomed the smell.
Heard from Siewmei that there’s this restaurant which serves buffet here, you have your buffet while overseeing at the volcano. Abang Made didn’t bring us there. But then we were still quite full at that time.
Cam-whoring.
Dom helped me on this picture. Me standing between mountain and lake. Not that i don’t want to smile, blame the sun. Hehe…
After staying a while enjoying the view of the volcano, we went down the mountain. Stopping at this place, TBA. Hahaha… not “To Be Announced” but the place is call Trisna Bali Agrotourism. Here you can see the agricultural stuffs in Bali such as coffee, cocoa, spices, and fruits. They even have the Kopi Luwak (shitty coffee, one of the most expensive coffee in the world) here. In the photo above, coffee berries.
Never see a mangosteen tree before!
The guys enjoying some sample coffee and tobacco (have to roll yourself) here.
From left, Andrew, Bird, Evonne, Dom, Sue, Steven, and our guide Abang Made.
Tirta Empul, Holy Sping, is our next stop. I think everyone that comes to Bali, they’ll sure visit this place. At the entrance, statue guardian.
Walk passed this pone with many many Koi fishes.
Men and women, young and old Balinese come here to bath in the holy water for its curative and restorative power.
Cleaning in progress.
Their power got restored!
Crystal clear water. Canang sari can be seen everywhere.
Praying couple. Wish them luck.
Here we have 3 Balinese doing some traditional Balinese dance. Bali people are just so friendly, their smile so welcoming. Wonder why they carrying DSLR though. Hahaha…
It was evening already when we reached Jimibaran for our dinner. Based on sources, seafood here is a must try also. So Abang Made bring us to this restaurant, Dewata. Frankly speaking, the seafood here are not really that superb, I’ve tried better for a much cheaper price. But then if we didn’t try, we wouldn’t know.
After the dinner, we went around Kuta area looking for hotel again. We’ve finally found one called Grand Sinar Indah. Not bad a place, just renovated. So we took our luggage from the van to our room, then we went out again. Kuta beach revisit, at night. After some walking, we bought some SNACKS and drinks, took 2 cabs back to the hotel, and started chilling by the poolside again.
End of part 2.
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the auntie neck so geng chao!!! so nice the holy water u guys went so empty, i went there was so pack. looking forward part III~
we went to the holy water Tirta Empul there around late afternoon, still got a lot there, but the inner spring there no people… hahaha… lucky us i guess…
nice view of Mount + Lake Batur!! nex time i’ll try the same pose — me between mountain and lake haha…
haha… go shoot same picture la… the view is very nice up there… breathtaking…
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wah~ the photos is so niceeeeee….blueish sky & lake + greenish paddy field! argh.. can’t wait to go there! :p