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Lazily I dragged my butt out of my bed. Did a quick shower and went down to have breakfast with Sat. The hotel’s cafeteria is near the pool, so we can have a clear view of people ‘morning-sunbathing and playing in the pool while having breakfast. I felt so relaxed and reluctant at the same time knowing that I’ll be leaving this beautiful place later.
And wtfish to myself for not taking picture while having breakfast! #@$(*&(*!!!!
After breakfast, all of us walked to Kuta beach with the intention of taking a very nice group shoot there. Almost of us wore the white shirt we bought at Sukawati Market and I realised that Jess and I were almost identical in clothing! Haha!
Finally reached and stepping on Kuta beach!
After the satisfying dish, we left the Dewi Sinta Hotel for the famous Legian Street. It was already dark when we walked out of the hotel. Thankfully we need not have to walk to somewhere else at night as our van was waiting for us right in front of the hotel.
The journey to Legion Street somehow felt shorter. Probably the chat we had in the van made it shorter. I remembered us talking about the dessert we had in Yogyakarta, ronde to Yoga and Mr. Van driver.
We even asked them if we could find ronde in Bali since we were sort of carving for it. Sadly, ronde could only be found somewhere in Java especially in Yogyakarta as it’s a Javanese dish. Hearing that, we felt fortunate for able to try a local specialty in Yogya!
Mr Van driver revealed that he knows how to make that and revealed that it’s actually easy to do!
The moment our van entered Jl. Legian, we were excited and can’t wait to explore this street. The area is bursting with live as the whole street is aligned with pubs, shops, clubs, and restaurants on both sides!
Yoga briefed us on the bombing at Legian Street in 2002 and little did I know that the van actually stopped right opposite one of the bombed locations. I felt eerie looking at that place, even though the place is fenced with zinc board. A red banner hangs at the zinc board speaks of peace and criticises the act of bombing.
The area is somehow like Uluwatu where we could find ourselves looking at the beautiful view of the Selat Bali. We took a right turn. There’s a path leading to a temple at the edge of the cliff.
Along the way, there are many statues greeting us. One of many is a wooden statue of a man saluting, and I couldn’t help taking picture of him. He sure looks handsome here. Teehee.
Carefully balancing myself against the very strong wind, I walked there with the rest, occasionally grabbed someone for stability, I think I’ve developed fear falling onto the sea while on walking on high place with strong wind blowing against me; which I shall call it “strong-wind-at-high-place-phobia”. Super long, I know. Lol.
I can’t remember how long the journey took from Ubud to Kuta since we stopped at many places along the way. I also can’t remember what happened along the way from the restaurant to Kuta. Probably I’ve fell asleep after lunch. Lol.
I think I fell asleep. If not mistaken, someone woke me up when the van stopped at the side of a busy road. Everyone got down and took their bags along. Blurry, I took my small bag and Sat’s camera bag as he took his and mine big backpacks. We crossed the busy road, walked into a small alley, and turned right into a paradise.
Yoga led us to the hotel lobby which is on the right. The lobby is special – the most unique lobby I ever stumbled upon. The Balinese lobby, as I call it – consists of stone stairs, cushions, pillows and a big wooden coffee table.
Lazily, I sat at the cushions and leaned against the puffy pillows. I suffered from the temporary heat stroke when we walked to the hotel and although I was very grateful for the cooling effect from the stone floor in the hotel lobby, the heat is still unbearable and I had to whip out my foldable fan to cool myself.
Sat and Yoga settled the room registration and then passed us our room keys. Yoga gave us a time to meet up and then all of us went to our room to freshen up.
If I tell you that I was at daze and blur from the sleep and heat stroke earlier, I can tell you that I was immediately cured the moment we walked out of the lobby towards our room. The long swimming pool in the middle of two 2-storey buildings is too fantabulous! I wish to drop all my bags down and just jump into the pool! It’s simply too irresistible!
All of us got the rooms on the first floor of the building on the left side. Our room was still being cleaned when we went up there. So we hid in Ailing’s and Emily’s room to get away from the heat. The room is cosy, and cooling at the same time.
10 minutes later, we were finally able to enter our room. Once got into the room, we quickly took pictures of the room and went shower. Then we dashed out of the room to the lobby where everyone was already waiting.
Woke up early in the morning – got ready and went down to have breakfast with Sat. The earliest birds, Lasker and Elise were already there when we entered the hotel’s open restaurant. Ordered their Indonesian breakfast and both of us hogged the hotel free wifi and did facebooking, check emails, twitters while waiting for the food to come. Jess and Steven came later, followed by the rest.
Food came (no photos again cz I didn’t bring any camera with me) and I ate them up pretty fast as I was hungry. Then we went back to our room to pack our stuffs and gathered at the hotel’s open lobby. I went around and took final few shoots before one of us suggested on group photo.
