Blogs from Seminyak, Bali, Indonesia, Asia - page 7

What a day! Not packed, not ready for travelling. Trying get lots of things in my head so I could feel free when I travel. Tooth brush, passport, phone, and what else!? Thank god I am in Bali the Haven! OH yes, the Haven Hotel. OMG! It has a spa! Must try it but at 1045pm. After shower, I walked down to the bar having free drinks! "Are you travelling on your own!?", a guy with heavily American excent asked me. "Yes, I am on my own", I replied. So I joined him to his table. His name is Alan and he is from San Fransisco. We shared lots of stories about different countries and personal experiences in Bali.... read more

Landed in Bali at 11am and was at the Hotel by lunch time. We have a very nice 2br suite at the hotel and have spend the time relaxing taking it easy.... read more

Taking the hotel shuttle bus down to Kuta this morning but not before we make a serious dent in the hotels buffet breakfast, it was pleasant to have a huge western style breakfast for the first time since leaving home. We arrived down in Kuta around 10am, the weather was pleasant so we began trawling through the many shops on Jalan Legian before, arriving at the travel agency that organised our Flores flights, they refunded the money we paid for the flight that wasnt, with out a hitch which suprised me as I had been pumping myself up for a fight. We then spent the next couple of ours walking down Legian buying whatever took our fancy, it wasn't long till I had bought my 6th Bintang shirt, a watch for my mum and various other ... read more

Nach vielen Nächten unter 8 € für die Übernachtung hatte ich von dem indonesischen Siff, den Kakerlaken, den fleckigen Betten, die maximal 1x pro Monat bezogen werden (egal wer alles so drin schläft) so richtig die Schnauze voll. Ausserdem wollte ich mal eine Dusche, aus der zuverlässig Wasser kommt (die Temperatur war mir egal, kalt wäre schon prima gewesen). So landete ich im edlen Touristenort Seminyak, wo ich mich für 5 Nächte in einer qualitativ ordentlichen, preislich leider gar nicht mehr so ordentlichen Unterkunft einquartierte. Ich zahlte das 4fache wie sonst, aber das war es mir wert. Ich hatte ein sauberes Bett und ein schönes Bad. Den ersten Tag verbrachte ich am schönen Strand. Am 2. Tag mietete ich einen Scooter und fuhr zum Tempel Tanah Lot. Der viel gelobte Tempel war extremst touristisch und ich ... read more

I forgot to mention that we are back to being multi-millionaires again as the local currency has a ridiculous amount of zeros on the notes. One of our last meals in Sanur had been in the town centre where we were plagued with a well-meaning but over zealous waiter. He hovered behind us and popped up at the table every two minutes to pour another inch of drink or to move a plate around and became very annoying. His killer move was when we cut our pizza and picked up the first slices - our pesky waiter dived in with a napkin and swooped up all of the cheese strings between the slice in our hands and the plate (yep, all the best bits), so we had to firmly but politely tell him to go ... read more