rss feedBali, Island of Temples (part 3)
Day 4 in Bali, our last day to hang around Bali. Had our breakfast at the hotel. At first we wanna try the massage services that’s offered by the hotel itself, but it was fully booked. So we have no choice but to walk out and scout for another one. Luckily for us, there’s just 1 massage parlor opposite the hotel. It’s call Melasti Salon & Spa. We went in and waited to have a good Balinese massage.
Advertising put outside the shop.
Choose the oil that’s gonna be rub on you. But I think they didn’t really used what we’ve asked for. Cos it all smell the same.
It was a nice massage experience. Very different from Thai massage. I still prefer Thai style massage as you’ll feel more relax afterwards. Balinese massage leaves you a very oily body. Haha…
After the massage, Abang Made reached our hotel to pick us up for the day. The place we going next is this, Pura Taman Ayun (based on what Andrew said. For more information about the place, visit Andrew’s blog). So here we are under the hot sun again.
I think this is one of the guard house.
Look-out tower, can oversea the front side of the whole garden from top.
This is what you can see from the top, the inner part of the garden (left) is block by trees, so you can’t really see the temple inside.
Next to the entrance, there’s this art shop man by 1 artist. Some drawings in there are really nice, the details are excellent. Photo are eggs with painting for sell. Not cheap and hard to carry around. So we didn’t buy any.
The main entrance to the temple part.
The temple (left side of the photo) is surrounded by this river/drain? So we can just walk around it, outside the fence (behind the wall on the right of the photo).
Multi-layered roof temple known as Merus. As famous as Bali’s multi-layered cake. 
Me cam-whoring with the Merus.
A whole stretch o f Merus form the temple/shrine inside. Nice blue sky.
After Pura Taman Ayun, we headed to Berdugul, where the Ulun Danu Temple was built on the Bratan Lake. I was not feeling quite well because of all the travelling already. Cos this place is a highland and we’ve drove for around 1 hour+ to reach here on winding roads. For those who knows me knew that I’ve got this motion sickness problem. But the place was very nice and cooling. So no matter how unwell I am, still got photos to take. Hehe.
Temple on the lake.
The temple, guarded by frog statues on 4 sides. The feeling it gives from the photo feels very Japanese. Haha. Wonder how they go pray though. Swim?
Couple shot again.
Wedding shot.
Wedded shot.
What was Steven’s expression?
Sweetest photo from Bali. Hahaha. Now really look like wedding shoot.
After Ulun Danu Temple, we went to this market place around the same area to grab our lunch. Look at the sign, Deluxe Western Toilets! The font size is same as the name of the restaurant! Must be one of the attraction. Hahaha.
This is the market where we bought some strawberries, and some souvenirs. Dom, Bird, and Andrew couldn’t resist the look of those nice jagung (corn) that was carried by those women sellers on their head. So they went and bought some, but it ended up the jagung was very hard, and 1 even got worm inside! Ewww~
Final tourist spot for us to go, Tanah Lot. We reached there around 5.30pm. Need to walk fast to catch the sunset.
When we walked through the markets outside, we saw these crowds of people there. Look at it man, damn a lot of people la.
This is the famous Temple of Tanah Lot. When the tide is high, you can’t actually walk to the temple cos of the treacherous sea below it.
People standing on the rock waiting for sun the set. But the sunset today was not good. Cos there’s a lot of clouds blocking the view. A lot of dissapointed tourists. Including me.
Waves hitting the wall of the rock creating high splashes of water. Look at this couple risking themselves to take a nice picture.
Girl: “Oh no, the wave is so big, I’m scare!”
Guy: ” Nothing one la, just some shower only.”
Girl: “Ahhhh~~~~”
Guy: “Aiyak!”
Wave: “Yum”
Such a nice scene.
Proof of visit.
Getting late, the waves getting higher and more dangerous. Tourists were asked to fall back to inner beach to avoid being swipe away.
We’ve stepped foot in Tanah Lot.
We’ve told Abang Made that we need to grab some famous Balinese kuih to bring back. So, Abang Made brought us to this place, Pasar Badung. This market is like 7-11, it opens 24/7 non-stop. It was around 8pm that time, and I didn’t see any tourist in sight besides us. So this is a local local market.
The market was quite big, and it’s next to a river.
The aunty that we bought Kuih Lapis from. She told us that the Kuih Lapis can last for some time. She lied. I bought 2 and bring back to office, and 1 of them fungus-ed within a week.
Not sure whether that’s cow or pig’s intentines. Gross…
Stall selling Canang Sari and other stuffs for praying purposes.
After Pasar Badung, dinner time. Because there was not many interesting stuffs to eat, so we decided to get ourselves one last bowl of Bakso before we leave Bali. Abang Made brought us to this Warung Ayu Minantri I where we witness the incredible huge meat ball.
The gang waiting for our food to arrive. From time to time, you can see Balinese couples coming in here to eat. Based on Abang Made, this apparently is a popular place for young couples to come and dine.
The bowl closer is the normal Bakso. The second bowl is the Bakso Urat. Huge meat ball!
After the dinner, the plan is to get 1 hotel room for all of us to put our bags and lepak until morning. Because our flight back is 7.50am the next day, means that we need to get to the airport around 6. So it’ll be a waste if we rent 3 rooms for all of us.
But we’ve got some bad news from Abang Made, he told us we can’t get 1 room for 7 of us, so he offered us a stay at his office, so nice of him. Since we don’t quite care about where to stay as long as we can shower, we agreed. So we went to his office around Denpasar area.
After all of us showered, we’ve got nothing to do but just chit-chat. Dom managed to grab a jagung from a bicycle seller going passed. So I’ve setup my tripod, and took some group photos. Dom enjoying his corn.
Ip Man!… since Andrew’s last name is same as Ip Man. Hahaha…
We asked Abang Made to join us in our group photo. In this photo, he’s our dai-lou.
Everyone of us with our ride in Bali. A good experience.
DK 1750 YF. Our ride. After that night, we woke up damn early in the morning, head for the airport, and flew back to Malaysia.
Our first oversea trip. Success! Hope to do it again soon guys!
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Hi,
Bump into your blog and i really like your photos, very interesting. May i know how do you create the logos that you put it in all your photos ? Like this album, how do you create the bali logo with the “temple entrance” on it ? From your Sekinchan album, you also put the logo with a “paddy” leave on it. Do you copy it from your photo and somehow turn it to a logo ? Would appreciate that you teach me on this, i’m not a designer nor a photographer so i have no idea how you make it so beautifully.
Hi Samsam > You need Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Fireworks or Adobe Illustrator to create those logos. Some I trace from the photos some just create from scratch. Hope that helps. 
Those that u trace from the photos, you convert it into vector image is it ?
No need to convert. Cos when I’m tracing, I’m actually creating the vector out.
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Ah bird tarak cukup feel la!!!! Evonne very good!