It was day three and still no souveniers bought. We needed souveniers, lots of them. Utara took us to Krishna souveniers center for a short leisure shopping. They had a variety of food, clothes, keychains, scarves, keychains.... you named it, they had it. Yay it was what we really needed. Everything in one single place.
Pura Taman Ayun was next on the to-visit-in-Bali list. It was a praying ground for the royalty. A very well kept garden surrounded the temple. Stupas with different heights are seen from outside the temple walls. These stupas each represented the kings and princes. The king would sit on one of the high stage during ceremonial prayers. After prayers, the king would be entertained with different performances by his people. However, this grand tradition seemed to have died out. They only have one last king in the reign. Sad to see how time can kill the tradition / cultures of most civilization.
It was lunch time again by the time we finish going around Taman Ayun. Another moment I anticipated. Time for some Babi Guling. The stall was by the roadside. The babi was served with rice, very much like the char sao (bbq pork) rice we have here in Malaysia. But it tasted very much different, it was simply delicious. Basically, the dish consisted of one port satay, one deep fried pork skin (with some hair still attached to the skin), some pork meat, green dark chopped vegetable and a bowl of soup. All for 18000 rupiah per pax. I liked all except for the skin.. was imagining the hair brushing my tongue. Ok that's enough details. I'd better not spoil your desire to try this delicacy in Bali.
We then headed to Bedugul temple, floating temple on a hill lake. According to Utara, Balinese people pray to lakes, rivers, mountains, seas... hence why they have all these temples located by these locations. When we were at Bedugul, the weather started to change. It rained for the first time during our Bali trip. You can see all of us (including other tourists) ran for the nearest shelter. The rain did not stop us from exploring the place though. Lucky thing i had my trustworthy umbrella with me. By the time the rain was gone, the whole place was filled with mist. Very much like the weather we would get in Genting. It was cooling, refreshing and somehow with the mist, the whole place seemed to have a mysterious feel to it. Really enchanting.
We were in Tanah Lot for sunset watching by 3 pm. There were so much to see before the sun set. The tide was low enough for us to walk up to the front of the temple. We did a lil walk around the rocky part of the seaside. The were small deep holes between the rocks. Fishes and snails were trapped in these holes. They amused me. I was like a lil 7 year old girl yelling out with excitement every time i spotted sea creatures in these holes. It worked all the time. We found hundreds of bats clinging on the walls near a cliff here. I don't think many would have noticed it. The path to the cliff was slippery and dangerous. I didn't know how Be managed to talk me into walking there with him.
The tide came in really fast. There was this one time we were almost pulled in by the waves. I panicked and screamed my lungs out. My legs froze on the spot I was standing. I was afraid with one wrong step i might fall in one of the deep holes between the rocks. Fortunately, the wave rolled back to the sea as fast as it came in. We ran to safety asap. *phew*
We chose a beautiful spot to wait for the sunset. It was so romantic.
We had dinner in Warung Wahaha. They served really good pork ribs. Highly recommended. The settings were very romantic too. Near the restaurant was a spa centre. A good body massage and spa was what we really needed after a long tiring day. It was a two hour long session.
No comments:
Post a Comment