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.

The view is just breathtaking. I couldn’t find a better word to describe, but I think one should visit Tanah Lot to see it themselves, and then they’ll know what I meant. Of course, if the person is not into nature or doesn’t know appreciate such beauty, then it might be a waste of time to them la. Bleks.

We took group photos here with fantabulous view.

Yoga then led us to another place. We walked along the stone path with garden fence guarding us from falling off the cliff.

Then he stopped, turned to face us and said, “This is a good place to take picture of the temple”, and he pointed in the direction behind us. We turned. Immediately all of us lift up our DSLR and shot. Lol!

Then we continued walking.

There’s one part of the walk where we could feel water droplet carried by the wind. Yoga fasted alarmed us, telling that the water droplet is not clean. It came from the drain nearby. Immediately all of us gave wtfish look, cover our lens with lens cap and walked faster.

Walking uphill, we reached another temple. While walking towards the temple, we could see the temple that we went earlier on our right; while on the left is the famous Temple by the Sea.

We weren’t allowed to enter this temple, but there’s a small path leading to the back that promises even more fantabulous view.

After that, we went all the way down to the main course, the Temple by the Sea. Along the way, I snapped many interesting things.

Yoga advised us to walk slowly as the bedrocks leading to the temple are slippery and wet and have many holes. I myself almost fell into one of the holes. @_@

But once I stabilised myself, I found myself looking at the beautiful gift from mother nature.

Even David agreed so with me. Haha!

If I’m not wrong, we did take a group photo here too with the big gigantic waves slamming against the bedrock as background. But I don’t remember using whose camera. Haha!

I was walking and simply snapping around, suddenly I heard someone gasped or shouted. Then I turned. I saw the guys helped Aaron up to his feet. Everyone then went to him. His knee bleed. @_@

Someone passed him a bottle of water to rinse his wound. I overheard that when Aaron fell, the only thing that’s up in the air was his hand holding the DSLR. I was like whoaaaa!

Yoga told us about the popular temple. The temple is built on a rock, thus explained the bedrocks around the temple. Besides being popular for strategically located by sea, the temple also holds a unique, unexplainable story. The temple as we know is surrounded by the sea water; but underneath the temple, inside a cave, freshwater can be seen gushing out of the ground. This phenomenon is magical, or the people there claimed so.

And that explains too, the very long queue of people coming out of the cave.

As much as I wanted to see the freshwater myself, but I was told that I can’t enter the cave, as the place is holy. -.-“

I was like, since when freshwater gushing out is holy? But since I’m in foreign place, and I don’t want to upset their god with my action, so I just look from afar. Moreover, the long queue was quite potongstim.

Sensing us got bored on the place with nothing much to take, Yoga then slowly walked out of the place. We ensued.

While crossing a small bridge on the way out, we saw 3 children sitting and playing water coming from the drain on top leading towards the sea. I didn’t realise that the water is actually from the drain until Sat highlighted it to me. Eww!

Out of sudden, the topic of tranny came out. I can’t remember how it started, but I think Yoga asked what’s ah gua? All of us laughed. Someone explained to him.

Yoga then told us in their language, tyranny is called bencong. Maybe it’s spelled differently, it’s pronounced as ben-zhong.

And we laughed out real loud and hard. Then we looked at David, and warned him NOT to name his future son, Ben. Or else he’ll be a laughing stock in Bali. We all then laughed.

Can’t believe we have this funny-word-session with guide on each trip. In Cambodia, Siya asked about the meaning of langleng. In Bali, we were laughing out head off about ahgua and bencong with Yoga.

I can’t help to wonder what word will be next in our coming trip. Lol!

We were laughing all the way out of Pura Tanah Lot. As the sky was getting dark, the place was still full of people. Throngs of tourists were pouring in; we had to wade through the sea of people to get out of the place.

Despite having people coming in my direct, I managed to take few photos on the way out. Especially if I see interesting things! Lol.

Like the artistic decoration. Or a night creature.

And maybe a well-known shop in the local shops.

I was feasting my camera lens with all the colourful, interesting things when suddenly Yoga took a right turn. I looked up. We’ve reached our restaurant for that evening. Dewi Sinta Hotel, Spa and Restaurant.

This hotel, tucked away from busy street, is truly a hidden gem. Even though we didn’t have the chance to stay or look around the hotel, but while walking towards the restaurant, we could feel the luxury of the hotel from the interior design of the hotel, decorations and also the choice of colour.

Yoga asked the hotel staff for medicine for Aaron’s knee. He went in and took out a first aid box and attend Aaron’s wound. After that the hotel staff showed us our table and we made ourselves comfortable at the table.

We were presented with a plate of spring roll as appetizer; with then followed by a bowl of soup.

The rest dishes came after we finished our appetizer and soup. All quickly took pictures of the food and only attacked the food once everyone has satisfied with the amount of photos they took of the food.

One of their significant dishes is the red sate burnt over the small charcoal. That dish is heavenly! It came with 8 sticks, to be shared by 4 people. I ate one, and kept aside the other one to be savoured later after finished eating.

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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.

Checking back my pictures, I don’t know why I didn’t took any pictures of the hotel lobby, restaurant and the pool area! I totally loveeee this place, yet there’s not much pictures! *sulk*

After that Sat led us all to the Kuta beach. I don’t know how he knows to get there, but I was super happy to be in Kuta as it’s a fun place to be! There are plenty of shops to look around; plenty of handsome guys and pretty girls for the eyes feast on; plenty of food to eat! Even though I were only in Kuta for less than an hour, but I already liking this place! Lol!

We reached the famous Kuta beach but we didn’t walk towards the beach. Instead, we were walking along the street opposite the beach to where Yoga and Mr. Van driver were. It was windy and there were sand flying into my eyes! Urgh!

The moment we saw Yoga and Mr. Van driver, we quickly got into the van.

Our van left the busy, tourists-packed spot, towards the outskirts. Our next destination is not that near; yet not that far too. The entire journey was somehow made pleasant by the view of the picturesque paddy fields despite the occasional bumpy ride due to the uneven red road. I couldn’t stop taking pictures of the scenery out there as they’re simply too beautiful!

We even passed by the famous Le Meridien Nirwana Golf and Spa Resort which was said to be surrounded by landscaped paddy terraces only and have its own golf course. I was like whoa! Whoa! not because of the golf course, but for the hotel is in the middle of paddy fields. Must be pretty serene and relax waking up to the sight of paddy fields and fresh air in the morning. <3

After about 30 minutes of numbing our butts, we reached our last important must-visit for the entire trip, Tanah Lot. I was super duper excited as I wanted to see this beautiful temple with my own eyes. So to be finally there made me somehow quite nervous.

The moment we passed by the entry toll and into the parking bay, we were astonished to see the amount of people there. The parking bay is full of buses, vans and cars too. Mr. Van Driver drove the van out of the parking bay and turned left into a quieter lane and stopped at somewhere near the makeshift stalls selling drinks. In front of us is an entrance.

We got down and walked in.

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I wonder if anyone remembered seeing this humble-looking-statue?

*winks*