Beyond a journey, BALI 8-13 April 2016

"When you dream a beautiful place, make sure it's Bali."

-unknown

If I've been ask to choose a place where I trapped in and not allowed to get out for the rest of my life, it would be Bali. And maybe each one of you would need to ask why because you already known the answer.

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It's been the forth month in 2016 and I haven't go for traveling this year. My travel-mates choose to go Hongkong which I've ever been through, one day I am about to buy the ticket to Hongkong before my mom and explain how wasteful it would be to go there once again so I follow what she suggest to me.

And a week later suddenly a message came from my former boss, Memena. She's telling that she will moved to Singapore soon, and that she quit her job at Bali and so she tell me that our mutual friend about to go Bali the next week and she asked whether I'd join. And after few hours thoughtful thinking I decided to join them.

The ticket cost me around 1,6 million Rupiah. (return flight route: Pekanbaru - Jakarta - Bali).

And so the journey begins...

Day 1: an airport day

The first day I spent it all in airport and plane. It took 2 hour from Pekanbaru to Jakarta and 1 hour 40 min from Jakarta to Bali. I have to spend 2 hours++ in Jakarta airport because of the transit thing, and this is the most enjoyable waiting in the terminal because it's in Terminal 3 of CGK which looked much more fancy than terminal 1, a lot of plug, free wi-fi and I love it.

the waiting room

Because of the nice ambience, I enjoy waiting inside without feeling bored. But all the time I wish my boyfriend are with me to spent this holiday time because everybody are with their couple. (But never mind). Here, I can already feel the holiday mood because foreigner are literally everywhere.

I was expected to reach Bali around 9 PM WITA. Yeay, there's no delay at all! So I reach Ngurah Rai Airport and have to wait few more hours for the rest traveller to come who is called Lenny and Selly.

waiting...

While I wait, they are still in terminal 3 CGK
(left to right: Selly and Leny)

And finally they arrived at midnight so the team is completed and the wait is over. First thing to do in Bali is eat, because we are all so suffer for the flying things. Memena brought us to Lao Ta to eat porridge.

Bubur Pelangi

2nd day: Climb down to Blue Point Beach

We start our day with breakfast (of course!) at Sister's Field. And I ordered:

Acai Berry Bowl

Acai Berry (90K) and JasmineTea (30K)

Acai Berry Bowl is Blended frozen blueberry, banana, almond milk, cocoa nib & goji berry granola, coffee honey. I LOVE IT and surely will come back again.

They had nice interior as well.

Bali Squad: Selly, me, Memena, and Leny

Next, we moved to Seminyak:

Seminyak Beach

That time the weather is nice but not that nice for photo. Selly said that it's weird that me and Leny took many photo here as if this is a so nice though it's actually looked like taking picture when tsunami come (bad weather, big wave, not so white sand).

somewhere around
(pic: Memena)

And because of that we chill in La Planca, which is just nearby:

La Planca facade

La Planca Interior

the lamp

don't get too close, it's dark inside

At the time, sunset's time are still too far away, so we decided to buy souvenirs hence we don't need to rush buying things tomorrow. So the next route is Krisna : the souvenirs' centre.

Buy this weirdo cat for 26.500 IDR

Next, we plan to go Blue Point Beach, because the weather is too hot, we one of the cafe there, Single Fin while waiting for sunset hour.

rustic bar

the outdoor view

Menu

When the time about to come, we climb down for the beach, the way is a little rough:

the beach is down there

get down with that stone stairs

a crowded beach

it's weird when a lot of people around when taking picture

spotted a handsome man behind us

And because it's too crowded we decided to climb back upstairs

Sunset at Blue Point Beach
(pic: Memena)

Overall, for me Blue Point Beach is a bit similar to Padang Padang Beach (a.k.a Julia Robert Beach) because of the cliff that we have to climb down before finally find the beach. There are many coral so you may not diving here, use sandals here if you don't want a wound. But still, it's a beautiful beach.

From the beach, we go to Sup Ikan Mak Beng for dinner. They said it's the most delicious fish soup in Bali, which I can't eat so I don't know if it's true. lol. 

Before going back to hotel, we go to Papaya Supermarket (Jalan Patih Jelantik - Sunset Road). It has a lot of Japan stuff and they discount 40% their sushi and other fresh food after 9PM.

And we go back hotel afterward.

3rd day: Sunrise and have fun with water

Today we are about to catch the sunrise, so we wake up around 5AM and go to Sanur and wait for the sunrise.

so much fun, waiting for the sunrise

It's such a beautiful thing to do and I really recommended. It's like living dream.

spotted our happy face

After catching the sunrise, we go to Dimsum inc. to feed our belly.

 The food is not so nice, yet not so bad.

After feed our belly, we go to the next must-to-do-things-in-Bali which is playing water at the beach (it should be bikini things but since none of us wear bikini so can't called it so). We go to Batu Belik Beach to accomplish the mission.

on our way to Batu Belik

the moment I treasure
(pic: Memena)

Even though it's quite a simple things: playing at the beach, but it's so much fun to do. there're some "yausiu" moment when we have to get out the sand that get into our pants and underwear. But it's Bali, no one care even if you have to change your clothes in the open space.

After being tired of playing at the beach, we are going to relaxation which is massage at Cozy, as its name, the place is so cozy and if you are inconvenience with the therapist you can change with other therapist. There, you can take shower too, they provide the towel, shampoo, soap and others toiletries.

Then we eat ice cream at Gusto Gelato, can be called the most delicious ice cream I've ever eat in my life.

Ice cream doesn't make us full to there come another culinary trip to Warung Cahaya, which so famous of its "Babi cabe matah" but because I don't eat meat, I ordered "Mie goreng" instead.

We continue our trip to La Laguna, it's very nice restaurant beside beach but yet is expensive. They have a lot of photo spot.

 Because we already too full to eat again, we choose to move and not eat at this place. We move to The Junction which is next to mall, and we just sight seeing around.

a perfect cheese cake

So the trip with Selly and Lenny is over because they have to fly back to Jakarta afterward. But I still have 3 more days to conquer (lucky me!) after we accompany them to airport, the rest of us go home to take a rest, because tomorrow will be tiring.

4th day: Pantai Banyu Wangi
We start our day with brunch at Nasi Pedas Andika which is so spicy. They provide varian dishes which you can choose your own. And here's mine.

It's been a hot day, so we decided to chill in Galleria, one of the biggest mall in Bali. I buy some clothes in HnM, it's inexpensive. After buying some clothes we move to Pantai Banyu Wangi. If you ever heard a foreigner bride who dead in the beach because taken by the big wave, it's this place. Despite that horror story, this place is still a beautiful place to go. there're a lot of couple taken their pre-wedding shoot here.

 No one surfing here even thought the wave is huge, because it seem dangerous.

When the sunset is over we move to Balique which just nearby to meet my friend. This restaurant is so antique (that's why they named it Balique).

even the toilet is antique

Before going back to hotel, we go to Factory Outlet at sunset road for shopping the brand rejected. lol. That night we already plan about where to go for tomorrow.

5th day: It's Nusa Penida Day baby!
Early morning we go to Sanur to catch the most early boat to Nusa Penida. around 8AM we move to Nusa Penida and returns to Bali at the same day.

Once we reached Nusa Penida, the first things we do is rental a motorbike and it's an hour in the road to reach Angel's Billabong. the place ain't in google map so we have to ask the local people several times before actually could reach there.

The road is very rough so be careful, if you aren't a rider so I suggest you to take an ojek. The place is near Desa Bunga Kembang, so make sure you reach Desa Bunga Kembang and ask the local which way to go.

After an hour in the road we found this place, actually that time we though we are going to the wrong direction.

pasih uug

We kind of disappointed because we expect to find Angel's Billabong but we found Pasih Uug instead. Then we see a family came out from somewhere in wet. and they said they just came out from Angel's Billabong, they show us a way to get there, just 5 minutes by foot.

Actually there's the path, just follow the path and we reach there.

 And I utterly said this is like heaven on the earth, and definitely a natural infinity pool. you can just walk there and not slippery because of the sea grass. No wonder it called Angel's Billabong. There's no room for changing clothes so make sure you wear your swimsuit under your clothes. The rugged coral cliff is hard to climb down. It's a daring challenge to actually got into this place and it's worth it!

 When the time came we have to go back to catch the boat. Kinna hard to leave such a beautiful place. After we come back to Bali, we directly go to buy the famous Pie Susu Asli "Enaaak". As it's name, it's super enaaakk.

Next we feed our belly with pizza at Pizza Club, the pizza is thin and tasty. definitely will be my favorite pizza.

our vegetarian pizza

and we cross the road to eat ice cream

I love this

It's evening already and because this is almost my last day, I forbid my self to come back hotel early. so we go to the newest mall in Bali, Beach Walk Mall before we going back to hotel.

6th day: see you Bali!
The hardest part is to letting go. so this is the hardest day because I need to come back and leave Bali. Before going to airport I have my breakfast at Warung Lo Mie, Denpasar. And after that I am going to Airport, good bye Bali.

our last selfie

bye Bali, I hope to see you soon

So my Bali vacation ended, and I feel so grateful to experience such an amazing journey. Even though this is my second vacation to Bali, I still willing to come back again and explore another part of Bali. after I come back to my hometown, I still daydreaming about Bali, one day I dreaming I am in Bali and ce Memena is waiting for me so I wake up and I'm in my hometown sadly.

back to reality

 Thanks to ce Memena, ce Selly and ce Leny, I learn so much things from you and thanks for such an unforgettable journey.

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Another recommendation:
A nice villa: Lajoya Biubiu Villa
Souvenirs: Bali Buda