Deliciously Me

“Those wearing specs later must take off their spec. No sunglasses, necklaces, pens or anything dangling.”

We quickly removed all our stuffs while heading to the next tourist attraction, Pura Luhur Uluwatu. I heard about this beforehand from LeeMay and Lisa when both of them visited me few weeks ago, so I brought along my contact lens and wore them throughout my visit in Bali. If not for their warning, I wouldn’t have brought my contact lens along and would walk around half-blindly. Probably just a quarter-blind as my eyesight isn’t that terrible. Haha.

Then Yoga turned to me and said, “Must remove your earrings too.”

Shocked I replied, “Huh? Earrings also need?” as I can’t imagine how the earring can be taken off easily.

“The monkeys could easily take it off without you realizing. They’re very quick!” he said.

I quickly took off both earrings and necklace; leaving only a much secured hair band to tie up my hair as I didn’t want the monkey to mess up with my hair.

As Ailing, Lasker and Steven wore specs at that time, they asked if there’s another way to secure their specs. Yoga suggested using rubber band, but since we didn’t have that so he asked them to hold on to their specs whenever they see a monkey coming near.

Steven suddenly asked, “what if they managed to get that from us? How to get them back?”

“Then you have to bribe them with food or something else for exchange,” Yoga said with a laugh, which made everyone laughed too.

Steven replied, “aiya… then we should have get the bananas just now!” and all laughed even harder.

Soon we reached the place and just as we were about to get down, he asked us to leave everything in the van if possible. So we did, except for the DSLR hung around our necks and wallets and passports where I put in Sat’s pants’ pockets.

The sky was quite dark at the time we arrived, and I was hoping that it wouldn’t rain.

We then went to the side, where those wearing pants or skirts above knee lengths need to wear sarong to cover their legs. The lady there didn’t want to give me a sarong initially because my dress is long, but after few persuasions, she wore for me! YAY! Damn happy that time.

Then we quickly took a group picture at the entrance.

We went in, where Yoga asked if we wanted to go to another place first which is on the right side. To go to the Pura Luhur Uluwatu, the famous cliff-hanging temple, one needs to take the left route. If choose to go to the right, one will reach the headland. We decided to have a look at the headland first. As we walked, we could see monkeys sit at the fence, ground; as though waiting to grab something from us. Haha.

At the headland, we could see stunning view of the ocean and Uluwatu temple from afar. The sea is so blue and rough; and I can imagine sharks swimming at the edge where the waves slammed against the cliffs as sharks love swimming at that area. I was very mindful of steps I took as I didn’t want to slip and fell into the fierce water. Still, strong winds blew against us, making me hard to stand steadily and quickly hold on to Sat for support. Keke.

The dark clouds approached with quick speed and soon we felt water droplet. It started to rain! We took few more shots and walked in quick speed to the main temple. However, as we were about to reach the gazebo situated at the bottom of the hill on the left, the rain stopped.

At the gazebo, I witnessed a monkey who wanted to grab the baby’s toy which hung at the edge of the baby pram. The mother saw the monkey coming, defensively immediately shooed the monkey away with her umbrella. Another guy with a stick saw it too and warded the monkey off the vicinity.

Thank goodness for their quick act, or else the baby might be harm.

Seeing that the baby was safe in the arm of the mother, we continued ascending the stairs.

While going up, I spotted a lady wearing 3 inches stilettos there! Shocked, I pointed this to the rest of the girls, and all of them went WAHHH, ai meh? Haha!

At the middle of the stairs, Yoga said, “This is a very nice place to take picture. Come, group photo here!”

Then we arranged ourselves in 2 lines and smiled at the camera. Suddenly, Yoga cried, “LOOK! BEHIND YOU!!!”

Startled, we scampered to few steps ahead and looked back. There was a big monkey sitting on the fence behind us. Yoga told us that the monkey was about to snatch Lasker’s spectacles!

But then when we looked at the monkey, he just selambanya sat on the fence, looking back at us.

We then proceed to the top of the headland, where we could see the famous temple. However it’s closed to the public and we weren’t allowed in. So we walked around the temple.

If not mistaken, this used to be bell tower or watch tower. Can’t recall already. Anyone care to clarify this for me? Haha.

From there we went to the other side of the headland for more outstanding photos.

Uluwatu is also famous for its Kecak Dance. If one walks along the stairs down, one will reach the ticket counter for Kecak Dance. The dance ground is situated further in; can be reached by walking along the stairs to the end.

We didn’t watch the Kecak Dance as it’s not included in the package. We could watch if we wanted to since we got the time to do so, according to Yoga. But he asked if we would want to witness the sunset at Jimbaran or the Kecak Dance; and suggest us to move now if we chose Jimbaran.

Hearing that, we made our way out as soon as possible, taking out our sarong along the way and passed them to the Yoga and boarded the van. Yoga dashed to the hut to return all our sarongs, dashed back to our van and immediately left off for Jimbaran.

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