Bali - Day 2 (July 25, 2013)

day 2 in BALI .. oh YEAH !

8.00am .. wait for our 1 day tour guide (purchase package from groupon) ..

1st stop .. Batubulan .. according to tour guide .. this is the place famous with handy craft item ..

2nd stop .. "unknown" .. according to tour guide .. this is the place famous with gold & silver accessory ..

3rd stop .. Celuk .. this place famous with Traditional / Modern Art Culture ..

Picutre showing that the guide telling us some the local stuff/things that they do.. especially their famous, International Kite Competition which normally held at July. but not this year .. because this year, 2013, the Bulan Ramadhan fall on July.. so the competition will delay until after Raya .. according to him .. some kites are very big .. cant imagine how big ? just imagine normally a kite fly by 1 person holding the string .. but this huge kite .. at least need 10+ persons to hold the strings (most of the time, the 1st person will be half floating half pulling the string) .. guess I'll be back to Bali just to watch the well known, International Kite Competition.

our lunch of the day .. CRISPY DUCK ..

5th stop .. Ubud Market ..

Ubud Market .. one of the main tourism place .. lots and lots things to be sold here .. BUT .. according to local advice .. tourist should make bargain with the seller .. once the seller offer x amount of price .. 1st things for tourist buyer to do is .. start bargaining from (at least) 80% of the original price .. YES .. you must bargain .. or else you will be very very very regret just like few of my friends here ..

6th stop .. "unknown" .. place to taste local coffee

another place mostly visited by tourist .. all lots of kind of coffee were planted / sale here .. before knowing which to purchases .. we can also taste out which do we prefer .. besides coffee .. there also some tea to be taste / sale .. the best things is .. they even have the Luwak Coffee here .. what is Luwak Coffee ? Luwak Coffee refers to the beans of coffee berries that been eaten and excreted by the Asian Palm Civet .. what I heard is .. this coffee is quite .. expensive ..

7th stop .. Uluwatu Temple ..

People say this is the best place to enjoy sunset .. how good it is ? I have no idea .. as you can see in the picture .. the sky is too cloudy to enjoy the legendary sunset view .. I guess I'm kind of bad luck today .. no sunset view for me .. T.T

ps : most of the gambar-s here were taken by Benjamin Tay