Bali Tour (I)

Well all, sorry for late posting of my blog... some technical problems occured and now only can I write this post. As I mentioned, I went to Bali for a vacation 3 weeks ago. And, thank goodness the trip was safe. No terrorists bombings, suicide bombs or any deadly master plans of those villains, crooks.


The trip was meant to be a 6 day 5 night vacation with my family and other relatives. The currency of Indonesia is 1 MYR for 2700 Rp. We became millionaires at there! The destinations were selected by ourselves although we had a tour guide. Sounds fun, huh? Yup, it really was fun. Most of the destinations were temples, temples and temples. My mom said that we were there not to just enjoy the fun, but to experience their primitive lifestyle and culture. It cannot be considered as primitive, but not too modern too. So it called modern-itive. Haha.


We stayed at a resort called Harris Kuta Resort, a 4-star rated hotel.  It was opposite the beach, so we could go there and enjoy the sea breeze. Well, we also saw a lot of tourists from Europe and America.  They went to Bali for 2 reasons, or maybe 3.The reasons are:

1. Sunbathing (very common, the whole beach is filled with tons of them)
2. Surfing (common, at the airport a lot of them carry a big surfboard around, even larger than their luggage)
3. Investment (uncommon, we don't see them talking the deal but most of the pubs and restaurants are invested by them)

About the populations and the religions, you will definitely be surprised. Although we know that Indonesia is a Islam-based country, most of the people at Bali are Malays that are Hindu in religions. 87% of the people on Bali are Hindu, cool huh? Islam only covers less than 5 % of the populatipn at Bali. So, when you go to Mcdonalds, trying to order a Big Mac, you won't be able to order any. Oppositely, you will see that the menu contains Pork Burger. Woah, Bali rocks!


Let's finally start the tour: starting from the airport at Bali. The airport was called Denpasar Ngurah Rai International Airport. It's named after a brave Hindu warrior in the picture below.

He looks smart, doesn't he?

My family arrived at Bali 1 day earlier than my relatives. So we got to explore more of Bali. Well, nothing special was on the first day, just that we arrived there and had Mcdonald as dinner. Their convinience marts are not called as 7-11 or Guardian or Watson, but known as M Mart and Circle K. There was only 2 bottles of 500ml mineral water supplied by the hotel so we had to buy our own mineral water. And guess what? A mineral water costs 4000~6000 Rp per bottle (1500ml), and buying a dozen of mineral waters costed approximately 60,000 Rp.

Ok, going to Penang now. Will update rest of the tour soon. TTFN.

Going To Bali

It's December now, and quite many students are attending tuitions classes everyday. Well, while others are tuitioning, my father saved me from the wrath of tuition by bringing our whole family to Bali, Indonesia~~ lol. Now, I'm still at Singapore, waiting for the next plane which heads to Bali.

How do I feel of my trip? Well, we were going to take the Singapore Airlines from Penang to go to Singapore, but it turned out to be Silk Air instead, making me feel so "zzz". The economic breakdown must have caused it to become like this... but never mind, the next plane to Bali will have interactive touch-screen games and entertainment. So, I think it's gonna be fun. ^^

I think this is gonna be a short post, so I'll try to put up some pictures. TTFN.