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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.
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.
We gathered again at about 7-ish (can’t really remember the time) at the lobby.
The guys were conspiring on jumping into the pool at night with beer by the poolside; which made me all green eyes as I wanted to join too! Hmph! But I let my pool temptation slide by doing the I-hear-no-evil-meditation-thingy. Haha.
When all of us arrived, we got back into the van and off we went to the dinner place at Panorama Bar & Restaurant. We were supposedly to have dinner at Lasmi Restaurant, but the tour agent owner changed that for us.
The van pulled to a stop in front of Panorama hotel.
I wasn’t expecting us to dine at a hotel’s restaurant on a humble backpacking trip, but we did! We walked into the restaurant with the restaurant staffs warmly welcoming us in and led us to our table.
The moment we got into the van, Yoga introduced himself, the driver and started telling histories on Bali, the people and the culture.
Some of us felt hungry as they didn’t have lunch yet (we had ours on plane0, so we went to this fine looking restaurant, Pawon Pasundan for Indonesian lunch.
The journey from the Adisucipto Airport to our accommodation at Delta Homestay, Jl. Prawirotaman took about 25-30 minutes. Despite being so tired due to lack of sleep, my eyes were widely open, scanning the buildings, the graffiti walls, the cars – especially the pink Toyota Altis taxi, and the people! Just 10 minutes later, I saw something interesting at one of the busy crossroads which I put in my list of ‘Interesting Fact’ and that incident was the first in the list.
There were 2 guys sitting at the middle road pavement playing nobat (traditional music instrument). Also seen were 2 masked guys in traditional costume did a traditional dance in front of the stopped vehicles, hoping to draw attention from them before going around asking for ‘entertainment fee’.
Then we crossed a bridge. I was surprised to see graffiti drawn along the bridge wall. The first time I saw beautiful graffiti displays (since it’s prohibited in Malaysia) was in Europe. I never expect to see one in Yogyakarta, as I thought the place would be like Cambodia – little shabby, graffiti-less, timeless city.
Traffic in Yogyakarta is much better than Cambodia, but still as chaotic! Oh well, at least they adhere to the rules of traffic light.
Cyclist are seen plenty on the road. But then, the cyclists there are like the motorcyclists in Penang where they love to hog the entire road by cycling slowly in the middle of the road. They couldn’t care less if people are honking at them; they would just cycle at their own pace.
Interesting Fact number 2!
