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Day 1_260208
A very anxious couple is going to Bali on this particular day…… tht’s us..huhu

Mana taknye, this is the first time we travel together… alone. We even woke up really early to catchup the 730am Airbus to LCCT, our flight wus 1020am, very awal ek…

Once we arrived, ape lagi.. we directly check in… than the worst case I’ve ever imagine happened…. ‘You punyer passport tak renew ke? Lagi 4 bulan expired ni, to enter bali minimum is 6 months’……than the girl checked with 1 of the officer, he contacted Bali Imigresen, but still rejected…my passport is not valid….. perghh..my heart was pumping soo hard cam nak pitam jek

…. Radin was terkejut and of course worried….. radin kene pegi sorang ke? I kene tinggal ke? Haa? Package dah bayar? Buat perabeh duit jek kalo tak pegi… ape ke bengong nyer AirAsia tak sound awal2! Buknnye smue orang biase pergi oversea. Uwaaaaaaa

Radin tried to cool me down, the officer suggested me to do the renewal because it wont take long and Radin have to go first so tht we wont be too rugi since tht sorang jek yg kene beli tiket flight pegi…. Than nak buat camna… have to lorr…. I cried! (dalam hati jek yek) malu la kan org nampak…. So around 10am we decided to go separate way… Me to the imgresen with the most gabra feeling ever bertemankan abg taxi yang baik hati (haha, nasib baik) and Radin terus boarding with the most worried feeling sbb tgk bini kene struggle sorang2 buat passport in a short time…hehe

Renew the passport is different story,but than my dad manage to get his Imigresen friend from imigresen JB to instruct 1 officer from tht office to help, dapat gak at last siap my passport in 30 minutes after waited for 2 hrs, crying kat pintu masuk for 1 hr I guess, merayu at the counter every 15 minutes n even cried depan diorg (giler malu… than dah cuak maaaa) exactly around 1.30pm…. Just on time to get back to the airport and beli tiket flight…..

Alhamdulillah I managed to arrive at Bali on the same day cume dah malam… Our first day to bali was haywire, n we sempat la pegi Discovery Mall (among the newest shopping complex) to buy tupperware utk makan meggi…hehe. Quite a waste in terms of our precious moment habis camtu jek but somehow im grateful for the safe arrival n to be with Radin again… Alhamdulillah

So, Tomorrow should be fun!.. because we want to redeem back for what happened on the first day… yeahh!!!!

Day 2_270208
First morning in Bali, baru dpt feel the beauty of the Hotel that we stayed.. The Vira Bali Hotel.. smlm serabut lah katakan, tak sempat nak view betul2. Breakfast was great (which we became vegetarian because of the confusing Halal food)…. It’s norm in Bali for them to declare the food is HALAL eventhough its not, cus their understanding is the food is not pork or cooked with it… so how about the source? Thts y we decided just to be vegetarian. Wut we did if teringin sgt nak makan nasi & lauk was to survey the Muslims Sumatrans Nasi Padang restaurant which some are located at the very end of a narrow service road or at the road side… just alert with the signboard eventhough if its tiny

We planned to ronda2 Kuta & Legian on d 2nd day. Motorcycle rental is very cheap, 50k rupi for 1 day… dapat pun skuter baru beli 3 hari tu. We merempit all day long with me handling the videocam at the back, just like a professional videophtographer…hahaha. Surprisingly Kuta and Legian is not big, So even after 3 rounds, Radin dah expert as dah duduk situ for 5 years… hehe.We went to the Kuta Beach, ride along the Legian Road and shopping sikit, visit the memorial of the bombing victim at Legian, survey and book our tour guide for our 3rd and 4th day tour.

Weather was at its best, and we even went to the Kuta Beach again at 5 just to feel the beach during sunset. And of course being the wife of a photographer terpakse la jadi model….. hehe. At night we merempit again and stroll along Raya Pantai Kuta road passing through the hardrock hotels and few side walk restaurants. View was great since they light up the street with colours of lights.

Day 3_280208
Our first tour day, at 8.30am our tour guide..Yoda came to fetch us at the hotel. Yoda is a Hindu Balinese from Singaraja….funny guy. After passing thru Kuta on the way to Tohpati rain starts to fall…… uwaaaaa

… Radin was really sad takut gambar tak cun… huhu. We went to Tohpati known for its Batik… for those who luv Batik would luv this place, they have a big store sells wide range of batik…but not us, we just wanna take photos.. Than we move to Batu Bulan to visit the silver making place and to watch Barong dance… Barong dance is a dramatic battle between good and evil. Make sure to read thru the synopsis if u don’t want to get confused during the play. After batu bulan we went to Batuan to have a look at oil painting.. quite boring here cus none of the painting favour us

Along the way to Kintamani, we requested Yoda to bring us to Gunung Kawi and it was amazing!.. we walked around half and hr just to reach the Gunung kawi temple… passing thru series of green padi hills and river,.. we walked up and down narrow stone steps… the view was outstanding and so amazed with the huge stone carvings at the Gunung Kawi. Walking back to the van is like a neverending stori…haha, I dah cam nk pitam cus kurang air. But than sempat la rest in the van mase on the way to Kintamani.. Kintamani as everyone knows is still an active volcano… we had our lunch up there while viewing the mountain… really nice eventhough quite cloudy and chilled. Radin sempat beli tshirts outside the restaurant with 100k rupi for 10 tshirts… really cheap huh

Around 2pm, we drove down towards Tegalalang to have a look at 1 of the typical Balinese rice fields… Than we rushingly went to Ubud village for shopping!!! To buy souveniers for family and frens back home…. Price are quite cheap, u can get more than half of the first price they gave… bargain is a must!

After a short shopping session (only 45 minutes!)….. Yoda drove us to our last destination of the tour, Tanah Lot temple. It’s a place with best view during sunset, but than we don’t have the luck to get a perfect postcard pix because of the cloudy day

Around 7, we went back to Kuta and rest ….. zzzz

Day 4_290208
Our tour started at 1pm. For this tour we went to the southern part of Bali. Luckily the weather was perfect. Yoda brought us to Garuda Wisnu Kenchana (G.W.K), a cultural park which going to house the biggest statue in the world , the Dewa Wisnu riding on a Garuda (more than 1 and a half size of Lady Liberty)… big huh. The statue is under construction partial by partial at Bandung and the completed parts they exhibit it here.

The next destionation was Dreamland , 1 of the late sukarno’s son’s project which was on hold since he was declared bankrupt. Dream land was planned to be the next Kuta city… few hotels development are still on going since the beach are rather nicer than Kuta beach. Some of the expensive villas which we only saw in the magazines r also located here…. Fuhh

Around 3pm, we went to Uluwatu temple to watch kecak dance… a temple situated on the highest cliff of Uluwatu, for those who gayat maybe takut nak pegi sini. But the view was breathtaking. Kecak dance is also a ‘good vs evil’ play but it features a large choir of bare-chested men sat and move in a dikir barat style around a fire, singing ‘chak-chak-chak’ in a very unique way.. even the melody is interesting…hehe

The dance ends at 730pm, and we went to Jimbaran bay to have the most famouse seafood in town. Price was quite high or maybe same jek macam kat m’sia….but the ambience of the place was speechless…. We dine rite on white sand facing the open beach, and the place lighted only by candles on each table… romantic huh!

Day 5_010308
Our last day in Bali… uwaaaaaaaa

.. but somehow we missed M’sia gak. Since that our tour ends the day before.. we rent a motorbike again and explore Seminyak and jalan2 around Kuta, legian for last minute shopping. At Seminyak we happened to pass by a unique villa that actually im wishing to go since before coming to bali bcus this type of villa are only seen in mag or architectural books. The villa is highly gated but we berjaya berlagak as orang kaya & berlakon cam nak sewa situ 1 other day laa.. so dpt la masuk 1 of the villa… or may I say… intelligent and high tech villa… the have frosted glass fence all around, self sensored wc (kite dtg dekat jek cover wc tu terbukak sndr and even the sit temperature will suit to our body heat accordingly..my gosh), colourfull led Jacuzzi and it plays ikut lagu… huahh..n byk lagi lah, tak terkate… 1 nite USD3k… huhuhu… tak dpt duduk dapt masuk pun jadilah

After jalan2 at Seminyak, we ride back to Kuta and legian. This time we went to legian beach to capture photos of surfers… tak der surfers yg pro, so quite boring la.. hehe. Than habiskan tawaf around the city, juts to make make sure we missed nothing…. (macam sure jek)…. N back to hotel due to rainfall.. again… (luckily dah ptg)… around 630pm, we were sent to the airport for our flight back to KL at 820pm.. yeahh…. Our honeymoon ends here… tiring but enjoyable… looking forward to go to other place plak (hehe….. kalo ade rejeki..insyaAllah)

Aminurasyid & Adleena

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