My 1st Bali Trip

Trip: 27 Feb - 2 March 2011

Location: Bali ( Denpasar - Kuta - Tanah Lot - Kintamani - Sanur - Jimbaran - Ulukatu )

Exchange Rate Currency: RM345 = IDR 1 Million

Accomodation: Holiday Villa Wina (RM150 perday, duluxe room)

It was my first trip to Bali with some old friends. We did get some good offer from Air Asia as we had booked our ticket about last 3 month back. The tickets cost us RM285 return perperson including airport tax at the LCCT. We arrived at Ngurah Rai International Airport at 9pm and went straight to the hotel. One of the hotel staff had greeted us at the airport.

For accomodation, we manage to get a good offer from a friend who is working as the GM for Holiday Villa Wina at Kuta. RM150 for duluxe room perday including breakfast (buffet). And the good part was the meal at Holiday Villa Wina is certified Halal by Majlis Ulama Indonesia! So no problem to get food for breakfast as we had heavy breakfast each day before starting our trip.

at LCCT Airport

at Kuta Beach

floating temple at Tanah Lot

The 2nd day after breakfast we went to Kuta Beach. The wave was strong but not as strong as the one in Bondi Beach (Australia) but still ok for surfing. By comparing the beach in Kuta and in Batu Feringghi in Penang, I could say that the beach in Batu Feringghi Penang is better and cleaner. Only you can't get strong wave in Penang compared to Kuta Beach. One of the local people approach us and offered us to go surfing. They allowed us to rent their surf board which is IDR1.2 million (RM40) for 2 hours. I wish I could go surfing for the first time, but we already had plans to go to Tanah Lot and Jimbaran by today afternoon. After a while at the beach, we went back to the hotel to ride the free shuttle to Legion.

At Legion we went to get some souvenir like shirts, keychain and fridge magnet. Even the same thing, the price varies from IDR10k to IDR50k. So its better to survey and get the best price out of it. We manage to hire a supir (driver), Mas Choki. It cost about IDR400k including an MPV and petrol. It was quite a good bargain. The MPV was the Suzuki APV which is quite spacious and the driver was a Muslim. So we didn't had much problem on getting halal food over there. 

We started our jouney to Tanah Lot to visit the floating temple or the called it Pura (temple). It was quite unique as the temple is only reachable when the sea level is low. Then we went to Jimbaran to experience the sun set. We were thinking of having dinner at Jimbaran, but the food was too expensive to us. We realized that the place of meant for tourist, so we ask Mas Choki to get us to a local food stall. We arrived back at ur hotel at 9pm and rest for our next trip tomorrow to Kintamani.

Part II here.

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi

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Sunway Lagoon on the go!

Since it is still on holiday mood, we went to Sunway Pyramid realx and test our adrenaline level. I guess this is my first trip to an amusement park in five years. The last time I for some of the extreme ride was at Tucson, Arizona.

just one ride would be enough

topsy turvy

hanging bridge

We went early, at 10 in the morning and there were already many people queing for the tickets. We bought the all park tickets that cost RM75. The rate is for locals, and need to produce the IC card as well. All parks include Water Park, Amusement Park, Wildlife Park, Extreme Park & Scream Park. We tried most of the ride. I realise I'm too old to try some of the extreme ride. One ride was enough for me:p

Sunway Lagoon rates (harga tiket)

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi

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To the National Zoo

Today we went to Zoo Negara and the weather was good and windy. This was my second time to the National Zoo. Last time I went there, it was raining quite heavily and I can't even see any animals, maybe the all went for shelter.

But this time, we went early, 11 in the morning. The Zoo Negara is located at the MRR2 between Taman Melawati and Ukay Perdana. There were not so many people and no long queues. The ticket is RM20 per person and luckily Ali doesn't need to have a ticket since he is below 3 years old. After we entered the zoo, we had to fork out another RM3 to ride on the tram. I thought last time was free, inclusive of the ticket entrance! Maybe its because of the economic situation where eveything is becoming expensive, and the maintainance of the zoo is affected as well. There were giraffe, tigers, lions and even tortoise! Nice to see the animals, but I think they look sad because of the small area they had.

its a pony!

children area

Ali just love to see the racoon which is just the same he saw at the Aquaria KLCC previously. I was waiting for some show where animals perform but none ever turn up. Maybe next time I should try Zoo Taiping or even Zoo Malacca.

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi

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