My World Of Maths: 2010

Sorry for the delayment of this post, it's just that I don't have that much time to complete a post. Ok, talked about the first day and now I'll tell about the following tour of Bali.

On the second day, well my family and me had breakfast at the hotel we settled at- Harris Kuta Resort. A soothing bath came after my breakfast. Did I mention that the water of the hotels around the beaches of Bali Island are salt water? So, the soothing bath ended up to be like, bathing in the sea. Around 11 o' clock, we went to the airport to meet my relatives (who arrived a day later), together with the tour guide. Then, the tour guide went on describing Bali Island. We had our lunch of pressurized chicken, which the chicken bone could be eaten throughly. Duh, it was fun at first but the interior of the chicken bones tasted like...

After the pressurized lunch, we returned to our hotel. Free time was given to us until the evening. But, me and my relatives, sibblings just ended watching television the whole afternoon. Haha. The dinner was supreme, you know. It took us 15 minutes to reach our dinner site- Jimbaran Beach. It was still early before dinner time, so we were allowed to stroll along the beach. Here are some pictures of the beach.

My cousin aunt taking pictures.

One of the views during sunset.

Next, we had our romantic and unforgetable dinner. Our tour consisted of 21 people... and we had a long table for dinner. The dinner was spectacular, which consisted of seafood being roasted, grilled and most importantly, cooked. Why don't you look at the pictures below?

Our long table for dinner. I'm in green,with my grandfather on the opposite of me.

Our prawn-roaster for the dinner.

Our spectacular candle-light dinner!

Well, that's all for the second day. The whole day was emphasised on food. After returning to the hotel, took a bath, watched some television and it's until 7.00 a.m the next day.

Ok, now, the third day's gonna start, with the same routine- bath then breakfast. Around 8.45 a.m, we started our journey to watch a performance of Barong and Kris Dance. The story was very complicated, but I can just say that it was quite dull, but some parts of the performance was interesting. No picture has been taken because my father recorded it all in his handycam so bye-bye for this section.

After the Barong and Kris Dance, we went all the way straight to the mountain village of Kintamani. The journey took us 4 hours and we just slept on the coach to recharge our energy and pass the time. When we were 3/4 of the journey, we were attracted by the beautiful, scenic view of rice terraces. We arrived at Kintamani around 1.30p.m. We had lunch there, a normal buffet and outside of the restaurant, the place was filled with villagers who were selling souvenirs to the tourists. Let alone T-shirts, there were already 5-6 people who sold the same thing.

When we crossed the road to the reach the opposite of the restaurant, those people just kept following us, requesting us to buy their things. The degree of them sticking to us was like the UHU Glue. There was one that kept following me, wanting me to have some tattooing from him. He said it costed 20,000 Rp. And I said no. Then, he decreased the price to 15,000 Rp. But I still said no. He kept dropping the price until RM 2! I became a little tempted and sought for my father's permission. But, my father said that those people weren't honest. They may say RM 2 but after doing it they request 2 US dollars. So, I just said no again to him. He felt disappointed and went off.

The scenery, as I have mentioned, was so beautiful that no description can be made. Lake Batur and Mt. Kintamani (a volcano) were inside that view, making the scenery more majestical.Maybe these photos will allow me to elude from describing the view.

The grand view of Lake Batur.

The magnificent view of Mt. Kintamani.

After the visit, we went to The Ubud, Bali's cultural handicraft centre. As we all know, Bali is famous for the wood carvings. And the price of wood carvings at the cultural centre started from 500,000 Rp. Some gigantic horse-like carvings costed a billion Rp. Woah, there's so many 0's that I forgot how much is a billion! We also went by a tropical plantation site of many plants that cannot be seen easily in cities. For example, cocoa trees, coffee trees and also vanilla plants. You can see the plants that I have mentioned from the pictures below.

The cocoa fruit.

The vanilla plant.

This uncle is roasting the coffee beans to let the best coffee smell come out from the beans.

Ta-dah! The coffee beans that have been roasted and smells so good!

After visiting the plantation site, we started our journey to go and have our dinner of crispy duck at a restaurant called The Pond. The duck was delicious, almost like the pressurized chicken but it tasted way better than the pressurized chicken. Below are some pictures of our dinner.