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Shocking Bali Arrival

My Bali trip was organized by my dear colleague Pak Brilly ( Take note : Pak means Mr. in Bahasa Indonesia, not uncle la!) months back which was set on 23rd July to 25th July. It’s actually just a short trip with just 3D2N.

It was kinda rush on our departure from Brilly’s place to the airport though.

We were hoping to be on time to board our plane! There were 6 of us, but 3 of us(Carryse, me and Mr.BF) have to board an earlier plane which is 1 1/2 hours than the rest. There was such a long queue at the airport, they opened all lanes for flying into Indonesia, not for Bali ONLY. Oh Gosh..luckily managed to check in my luggage.

Fast forward, we’re already on AirAsia flying off!

We didn’t have our breakfast earlier so we ordered in the flight itself. Surprisingly, I gotta say and agree on this, the food was kinda nice.

I ordered for Nasi Lemak @ RM15.

Mr. BF ordered for Fried Rice with Satay @ RM15. It taste like tomato.

You can start seeing Bahasa Indonesia in the flight like these. Seriously, I got not much of idea what does this mean. I guess it mean “Card credit AirAsia HSBC now fly more ohm!” ? Just my wild guess…

We also have some forms to fill in including health declaration form. You know, these are pretty important info just incase any of us are tested with H1N1 positive.

But seriously, no one (okay, just a few) is wearing mask that it made me felt so safe by not wearing it too. But you know, I like to cam-whore, so I saja wear the mask awhile and took this photo.

After 3 hours of flight we’ve finally arrived at our destination, Denpasar Airport, Bali, Indonesia. We have to sit the shuttle bus from the plane area to the terminal itself.

Here, we can start to see the Balinese building structure.

Of coz, we’ll have to go through immigration part first. But 3 of us was so blur that we have queued at the wrong lane. We only got to know when it finally reaches our turn. So, there was this one officer that attended to us and bring us to the correct lane. He asked if we we want to queue up or not. Of coz not! We’ve queued up for quite long at the earlier lane and we need to queue again?! When we reaches the correct place to queue, we heard him asking for some tips, like IDR20,000 (RM7.10) or IDR 30,000(RM10.65). Sorry man, we’re kiam-siap people and btw why should we pay? If we have knew that earlier on we would have queued up. So, we walk off once we got our passport chopped.

Then, we proceed to check-out from the airport. On the way, you will see one stretch of counters which will totally catch your attention and slow down. Wow, there are whole stretch of money changers counters which persuading you non-stop to change your currency with them. When I say whole stretch, I do mean WHOLE STRETCH, like 10~15 counters with no other stuff sold there, ONLY money changer. Interesting, dun they have any other location to open a money changer counter? Why all at the same place?

Once walk out of the airport, you can see many of the hotel staff or friends or family standing there waiting. I guess most of them are hotel staff as you can see them holding the card with the person’s name. Ceh… How come dun have my name? I have always wanted to see that as if I have fans there waiting for me. Geez, I’m day-dreaming.

I also noticed that they are kinda organized in terms of their luggage, you see…they arranged it nicely. I saw this kinda arrangement inside the airport itself on the baggage claiming area. The staff will help to unload the baggage from the moving belt and arrange it nicely in lines.

Also, there’s no chairs/bench outside of the airport on the waiting area. I saw people sitting on those metal thingie (dunno what is it called). I wonder if it’s a bench… coz most people sit either on that, or just on the floor.

We took some pictures at Denpasar airport itself with the Balinese building structure. You know, as a tourist, you must always take lotsa pictures, else you dun really look like a tourist.

Remember that I mentioned our flight are 1 1/2 hours earlier than the rest of them? We found a place to relax while waiting for them.

We ordered Iced Cendol @ IDR12,000 (RM4.26) . The green part of the cendol looks kinda different… It’s like translucent green, it looks like jelly instead. The taste was so-so only.

Another drink which we ordered is Iced Campur @ IDR12,500 (RM4.44), I guess it’s suppose to be like our ABC. It taste kinda different from our ABC though. It’s sweet, but different kinda sweet. Oh gosh, I’m just bad at explaining. Go try it yourself next time k?

You want some Sup Buntut? It cost IDR 35,000 (RM12.43) . Not not some Butt or Ass Soup, it’s Oxtail soup la.

You see, white rice also cost IDR5.5k there. Eat one white rice also need few K? Life’s not easy.  Aiyah, we should look at the price after conversion. WHAT THE HACK? Now I realize it’s really expensive. RM1.95 for one bowl or steamed white rice?!

Btw, I’ve forgotten to capture the shop name. It was kinda hard to read so I din bother to take note of the name.

After some time of chit-chatting, the others have finally arrived which means it’s time to check-in to hotel! We have our driver which is from the hotel itself. I know…this pic is ugly… Haha!

On the way, you’d probably notice something which is kinda obvious. There are lotsa people riding on motor bikes and another thing which is very obvious are the roads! The roads are just too cramp! Such small lane. I wonder how can they drive, they’re so skillful! I guess they’re trained ever since they got their license. Seriously, if you give me a car to drive over there, I’m pretty sure I’ll get lotsa scratches on my car. Dun laugh, not only me, you will too. You’ll know how tough is it to drive when you get there.

No kidding, look at this.

Looks like one-way road right? It’s actually two-way road. Be surprised! We basically travel through those small lorong(lane), yes, small lorong are like a normal road to them, it’s those small lorong that you’ll avoid driving in Malaysia. After about 20 minutes of car ride we’ve finally reach our hotel – MASTAPA Garden Hotel.

If you’re interested for a tattoo, the shop is right beside the hotel.

Pak Brilly helped us to check-in to the hotel.

I was so eager and excited to see how our hotel looks like. The hotel is only RM100/night per room. Cheap hor?  Their garden looks pretty nice and comfy with lotsa green, small man-made river, parrots and birds.

Not to forget a big fat wild rabbit which jumps around at the garden.

When I opened the hotel room door, my excitements suddenly all gone with the wind in short seconds and started to feel eerie when stepped into the room. It’s not that the hotel is dirty, it’s just the stuff there are pretty worn out but still usable. It wasn’t good and impressive so I didn’t bother to take photo of my room. But took 1 at the balcony, see the view from my room. So “nice” hor? Can see those houses rooftop.

I should stop whining, after all, it’s just RM100/night per room INCLUDING breakfast. LOL. CHEAP right? It’s actually alright if you plan to spend most of your time out of hotel and just back for taking some rest before the next day’s journey begun. There’s pros and cons bout no star hotels. Cons is that you dun have nice bed to sleep, pros is that the risk of getting bomb is kinda low.

My colleague was even jokingly saying that perhaps those bomber are staying in those cheap no-star hotel as us. Who would want to bomb a place which only occupied by so few people compared to those 5/6 stars hotel? It kinda make sense though…