Thursday, July 10, 2008

Day 4 @ Bali

We checked out from the Legian Hotel and then proceed to Benoa beach for water sport activities. It was the extra activities which was not included in our tour package. We did the discussion and selected the package which included the glass bottom boat, snorkeling and turtle island. It cost 20 USD per person.

* Bali’s snorkeling is not as good as Pulau Redang or even Pulau Pangkor. lol….So, you better take other water sport activities rather than this.

* So called the “glass bottom boat” is really make you frightening because you will see nothing underneath beside of the sea grass and sand.

* Conclusion, it’s not worth for paying 20 USD to pick these activities.


Benoa beach




We do the snorkeling here tau! The fish are little only. I think we’re spending half an hour around here for swimming more than snorkeling.


This guy fishing beside of the place we’re snorkeling. (No wonder part of the fish has been catching by him. lol)

Afterward, we headed for Turtle Island. It’s not an island; it’s actually a farm they called as “Turtle Island”. The farm was mainly for artificial incubation the sea turtle.


The visitors are allowed to hold the sea turtle and photographing with it.



This was actually big and heavy.



Its skin texture is very nice.



This Malay girl has a great strength to hold the sea turtle by herself.



Yen Leng never felt nervous of the snake putting on her body. geng!



The anger was standing on my sister’s shoulder.


When my turns, the anger was like want to peck me.




There was another unimaginable thing that happened at Turtle Island. We saw a banner hanging at the exit which was appealing to do donation to their farm. We got no money at that time. As you know that nobody would bring along their wallet out for snorkeling, am I right? The donation end up was like we must to write down our name and the amount of donation on piece of paper, then they’ll follow you back to get the money. The amount was limit to minimum Rp10, 000. What the…… Do they understand the meaning of donation?


We paid USD 18 for another water sport activity, fly fish. I feel like playing the second round of it because it was too syok. No idea of how is that look like? Please watch the video as below.


It’s not recording by us. I get it from YouTube.


Aston Hotel where was around Benoa beach. We checked in the hotel with body wet situation, felt kinda uncomfortable. This hotel was much better than Legian Hotel. Of cause it was 5 stars hotel and RM400 ++ per night for standard room. We’ll stay here for two days.











Once we got the room key, we took a quick shower and then went for our lunch. We’re supposed to eat the Bebek Bengil, unfortunately the restaurant was under revolution. So the Babi guling would be our second choice.


Babi guling. It’s ok for me. But some of them don’t like it.

Dreamland was another beach for surfing and the “papaya” hanging around there. You should get what I mean. Perhaps this time we been there crowded of people and couldn't see any “papaya trees”. I’m not desperate to see that though.









Last station, Uluwatu where was the cliff temple. We arrived there was the right time to see sunset. It was a nice place, but the visitors were always being disturbing by the monkey. All the monkeys were actually trained by the local people to grabs visitor’s stuff. Once your things kena grabs by the monkey, you have to redeem it from them with the money. They charge you according the valuable of your stuff. Normally the monkey will grab your sunglasses, caps, specs and necklace.

I am the half of blind person once taking down my glasses. It was super not convenience to visit this place. I roughly to photograph the view and all that as I couldn’t see everything in clearly. Surprisingly, the outcome wasn’t that bad. :P




The cliff and wave was great until you feel like jumping down to there.











To be continue....

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

nice turtle n nice sunset..

MT said...

hehe....tq~