Day 2 Part 2 – Afternoon Tour @ Southern part of Bali

Now our first tour began! The tour guide was actually freelanced, sought by Zoe Villa. He was quite a nice and friendly guy who speaks good English. The boy loves beaches, hence our tour started out with visiting this beautiful and famous beach, Padang-Padang, where Julie Roberts taking the movie “Eat, Pray Love”.

Beautiful, isn’t it?

I have to warn you that there were alot of monkeys hanging around at the entrance of the beach so do be cautious if you are bringing in any food in your hands. I have witnessed a group of children bringing in food and got scared by the monkeys when they aggressively get close to them in attempt to snatch their food.

Next stop is the very popular and tourist spot which is the Uluwatu Cliff Temple, with magnificent view to the Indian Ocean.

So breathtaking! Pictures show you everything, you have to go there to experience how beautiful the view is! Le fiance and I enjoyed the view so much that it overrided my tiredness of climbing up the long flights of stairs just to reach the temple to watch the Kecak and Fire dance performance on the open stage background by the beautiful sunset. The tour guide told us where to sit so that we can actually view the sunset while waiting for the performance to start. Before that, do take the paper which tells you the Kecak and Fire dance background because without it, you will be quite clueless to what the whole dance is about and you will eventually get bored.

Try to stay throughout the whole performance because things get hilariously funny towards the end of the performance where the characters will start making really humorous moves and making the whole audience laughed like crazy! It was quite a pity that many people left halfway, probably because they did not understand the whole dance meaning. We managed to follow the storyline, thanks to the paper which I took from the ticketing counter as I love reading such story! I shall not tell you the story to prevent spoilers, so read up on your own!

The last stop that the tour guide brought us to is to have a romantic dinner by the sea, Ganesha @ Jimbaran. Not our place of choice as I do not have a fondness of eating in a dim and dark place due to my eye condition but thankfully, le fiance was there to ease my mind and discomfort, holding my hand reassuringly while guiding me around!

As it was not our place of choice, we were quite unprepared by the prices stated in the menu as we did not bring out much cash so le fiance was like comtemplating on what to order. I am quite a big fish lover so there was this funny incident where I was looking at red snapper and le fiance asked how much is the red snapper and when the seller quoted the price after weighing, le fiance quickly went to ask for the small tiger prawns instead and I was quite downcasted because I thought he was not going to get the fish but just the prawns. Imagine my delight when he ordered both the fish and the prawns! Le fiance thought it was quite amusing to see me looking so disappointed when he ordered the prawns first.

I did not manage to take good pictures of the meal because it was so dark and I only have my handphone camera with me. So no picture here. But all I can say is that the fish was really delicious and they marinated the fish really well! So the barbecue seafood dinner was so far so good!

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The best part of the day was after dinner when we headed back to the villa to fly our first sky lantern, when le fiance asked what I wish for with him and I replied, “Happy marriage with you, of course!”. THe romantic him knelt down and proposed!

And the best picture of the day:

We both love this picture to bits!

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That’s all for Day 2.

Shall post Day 3 soon!

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