Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Next Gateway: BALI





The following week after the Jogja gateway, I had another gateway,,, to Bali.. this time with my new friends from the new office..

We arrived in the afternoon and went directly had Crab Porridge at LAOTA. A yummy welcome meal with a refreshing vegetable juice. Then went to Kuta Paradiso, which turned out to be a not-as-expected hotel. The air conditioner went off at 2 a.m. in the morning so we had the technician came and fixed the trouble at that time.

Anyway, after unpacked our things, we went to BREEZE, at SAMARA, Seminyak. A great place. We had some drinks and snacks. The crème broulle was awesome!! We went back to the hotel at midnight.

The next day, we started by walking around the shops at Kuta and started shopping. It ended at HardRock Hotel megastore, then we had lunch at BALI NIKMAT. A great seafood restaurant, especially its udang rebus and crab fried with salted eggs.

After that, we took tour to find another hotel. We browse hotels at Seminyak until we found the great ASTON hotel at Seminyak, but already close to Legian. It has its own private pool in each of the bungalow. Just perfect!! We took a cottage with 2 bedrooms, living room and dining room. Enough for the 9 of us (Mbak Ike, Mbak Bina, Mbak Wilse, Mbak Isof, Mbak Vina – who joined us later on, Mbak Shanti, Irma, Monik and me).

Further, we went to DISCOVERY at Kuta to see sunset.. it was almost late to see the sunset. We stopped for some coffee and heading to JIMBARAN for seafood.. yummeh.. seafood all the way..!! ow, well, we stopped for about an hour at Legian on our way to Jimbaran.

We went to Aston ‘early’ this time, at about 10.00 p.m. Mbak Vina, who just joined us from her proceeding in Jogja, has waited for us there. After some chit chats, as planned, we jumped to the private pool. The water was so cold that night. After experiencing that there were too many people in the pool, we decided to go to the hotel’s public pool. What a fun!

We finally finished swimming and ready for bed at about 1.00 or 2.00 a.m. what a day.

The day after, which was our last day in Bali, we started with busy dressing up in whites. After took some pictures, we went to Ubud. The plan was actually to see the gallery around Ubud first, but we then decided to go straight to BEBEK BENGIL to satisfy our hungry stomachs. Hehehe… Good food and great place!

After that, we were heading to PASAR SUKAWATI for some ‘oleh-oleh’. Then went back to Seminyak. Some of them revisited BREEZE for sunset, while Irma and I revisited Legian-Kuta for some more ‘oleh-oleh’. Hehehe.. but we finally made it to BREEZE for the sunset.

At 7.00 p.m. we returned to the hotel, took a bath and got ready to the airport. Mbak Vina and Mbak Shanti stayed for another night in Bali, the rest of us were going back to Jakarta. The flight was late at 11.30 p.m. (and delayed until about 00.10). It was another great weekend gateway..!! So much fun..

Also so happy to see my hubby’s face waited for me in the airport. Hey,, I’m back.. :)


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good for people to know.