Day 4 : Surfing @ Kuta

Today's the day that we ticked off surfing from our bucketlist ! And it was superbly awesome !

One of the best things we did in Bali and it was personally affordable to me. For US $35 , you get a group of 2-4 class for about 2.5 hours :) how awesome it that.

Our coach was Johan ; a Muslim from Jawa. We chose Odyssey since it seems to be pretty professional. And when we asked around , most of the people recommend Odyssey or Quicksilver.  

Personal advice , make sure you have enough energy to go against current and surf for 2 hours. Hahaha. 

Our class started about 1pm and ended at almost 4pm. Feeling exhausted , some of us went for a massage and some went to do our last minute souvenir shopping. We then headed to the airport using a meter cab around 6 pm. 

Best advice regarding transportation throughout the trip , always use a meter cab and definitely never give up negotiating for a lower price :) 

Was honestly one of the best trips with friends I've ever gone for :) we really fully utilised all 4 days we had there. And if any of you are heading there anytime soon , I hope you'll have a great time like we did. Here's a list of prices that might come in handy if you intend to go there too (note that some might be left out but feel free to ask) 

I uploaded a simple video on YouTube , Four Girls in Bali , to summarise our trip :) but kinda haven't finished editing the anti-shake yet as most videos were recorded while I was walking. No harm watching for now. Hope youll enjoy it ! 

PS ; if you're a huge magnum fan like I am , do not forget to try the magnum they have there as it varies to what we have in Malaysia ! 

I tried out the Chocolate-Caramel Magnum and Raina gave Espresso Magnum a shot which both was delicious in the sunny weather :) 

Day 3 : Tanah Lot, Ubud & Seminyak

Rise and shine ! Booked a Supir (aka Driver) for about 10 hours for only RM 100. (Can't recall how much it was in IDR). Driver picked us up around 10.30 am and we headed of to FlapJacks first for our brunch. It was superbly delicious , located by the Kuta Beach. 

I love waffles and chocolate but personal advice , do not order one on your own if you think you're gonna get sick of chocolate. 

We then headed for Ubud which was roughly about an hour's drive so we slept throughout our way there. Hahahaha. Anyhow , we ate at this place called Ubud Sawah Padi which was the BEST FOOD CHOICE of the trip ! 

Ordered 2 sets of this 'Crispy Duck' as it was too delicious !!! And was only for 80,000 IDR each. Took a few pictures and headed for Tanah Lot for the sunset. It took about 30 minutes to get to Tanah Lot from Ubud.  

That's us waiting for the sunset at Tanah Lot (couldn't upload pictures of the beautiful sunset but no harm in googling it I guess ? Haha) . Stayed on for the Kecak Dance ; Cultural Dance and then headed to Seminyak for a superduper short stop. 

At Seminyak , we checked out Potato Head which was one of the highly recommended things to do in Bali. But we didn't do any early reservations and were out of time so we strolled around just to see the place and headed back to our hotel. The area around Seminyak was pretty nice though. Seemed more like a foreigner place // tourist area and I guess you can say it looked like Bangkok-ish. 

Later on that night , we headed to Legian and had our party night ! 

Day 2 : Nusa Lembongan , Bali

Took the speed boat to Nusa Lembongan at 10 am today. I think it was under JJ Cruise. And they picked us up from our hotel about 9 am. The trip back and forth was about 350,000 IDR only. We managed to negotiate for a cheaper price as we walked around Kuta the night before.

Arrived about 10.30-ish at the Mangrove point (due to the high tides), and honestly , the island was pretty isolated and did not provide much public services. So be prepare for that if you didn't choose any packages on the island like we did. Since none of us could ride a bike , we hailed a truck to Dreambeach which cost us 300,000 IDR. 

We couldn't do much water activities as the beach was kinda rocky and had really strong currents. Nobody was actually swimming there or at the beach when we were there (such irony). We walked around to Sandy Beach upto Mushroom Bay which took us around 30 minutes overall (and yes, it was tiring. Hahaha). Ate by Mushroom Bay and it was already about 2 pm. We decided to go for snorkelling which was only about RM 45 ! Well , the person who brought us for snorkelling didn't seem professional and I wouldn't say it was a very safe snorkel but how bad can snorkelling get anyways ? (Would upload videos of our snorkelling trip on YouTube soon) . 

The snorkelling trip ended about 3.30 pm and we took the bike back to DreamBeach where we had the truck to send us back to the Central. About 5pm , we headed back to Kuta Beach. The ride was really bumpy probably because the tide was high already about that time (which explains why most boats head back by 3 to 4pm). 

Came back to our hotel , Serela Kuta and had our break. Then , Sarah , Raina and I decided to head out for flapjacks about 10.30 pm and apparently they were about to close their shop already . So be sure the next time before you go do check on the closing time ! Hahaha. 

Ended up watching the World Cup 2014 at a Sports Bar with Raina and it was definitely an experience to remember. It's different compared to the KL Mamak experience as there were many foreigners betting on shots and some were actually Americans themselves (the match was between Germany vs USA) . 

Came back about 2 am after the awesome match and that was the end of Day 2 in Bali :) 

Jalan Legian and the Driver,

So it's the last night in Bali (and yes I will posts more Bali posts when I have ample of time to do so) , we decided to check out one of the places that every tourist must go to ,

Jalan Legian ! 

We went for the SkyGarden Club at Jalan Legian which we had to pay 150,000 IDR for entry. The club had about 7 floors of different song genre to burst your ears with. Oh , and I just grabbed a tin of coke which I ended up only opening when we were heading out as I was afraid of anyone 'spiking' my drink and cause I don't drink alcohol so I wouldn't want any spilling into my drink. 

It was really interesting to see all foreigners enjoying themselves at one place. There were a few ugly 'drunk' moments we came across with though but that's kinda normal in any other club anyways. Oh yeah ! It opens from 9 till late so don't come so early. Haha. There were many clubs around though like the Bounty which had like a foam party. And a few live performances around the area. But best is for you to do your own research if you really love clubbing cause we basically went for the experience and to see how the 'club culture' is here :) 

Anyways , 

We left the Club around 2 and took a cab home , where we met our first ever Muslim taxi driver. He was the most soft spoken driver we've came acrossed with and taught us a lot on halal food and mosques around Kuta as he was driving us back home. 

One thing super adorable though was that he was treating us like his own daughters , asking us why we had tattoos (which was actually henna) and why aren't we heading back for Ramadhan (which we actually are tomorrow). I somehow rather found him inspiring in a way cause it's rare to see Muslims being so caring and soft to younger Muslims rather than being aggressive. 

This might be the most un-directional post I have ever written but I thought that one day I might wanna look back to tonight as part of a memory in Bali that touched me :)