Hi everyone,
just new to the bali travel forum so this is my first jbr.
returned home on thursday night from a fantastic week in bali.
travelled with my mum and aunt.
We stayed at Ramayana hotel in kuta, this is the second time that we have stayed here. we love the location it is across the road from mataharis about 500m from the beach and market stalls all around.
the rooms are lovely and clean and quite spacious the staff are just beautiful.
thankyou to everyone that recomended the mc shop " H " i dropped my dvd list into him and he got them all organized for me also ps2 games. so far the disks all seem to be good quality. and he was a lovely guy to do business with.
our driver "ketut" was just fantastic he charges 300,000 for a whole day and speakes very good english nice aircon car and is happy to take you anywhere. you can also hire him for half day also.
his email adress is ketutsudirta@hotmaildotcom
did a fruit decoration course and cooking class i really enjoyed it.
went to the market to get fruit vege etc. that was an eye opener.
dont think i will go back to the market but really glad i saw it !!!!
i did the cooking classes at our hotel "Ramayana"
thought the courses were good but i think i will try the ubud cooking school next time.
went to visit my mums and aunties sponser family in a villiage in whoop whoop about 2 hrs from kuta!
visiting them was just wonderful. left there feeling as though we made a difference to them.
i did think that bali was alot quieter than normal esspecially at night. i really feel sad for them. they are all just lovely people and all seem to be finding it very hard.
places that we ate at were bali bagia- best mei gorang in bali great staff and beautiful food. indonational- nice new location bigger restaurant than before and still run by the aussie couple, very clean and fresh food. we also ate at a place across the road from water bom park that too was beautiful. Breakfast we had at our hotel which was o.k. they are renovating the restaurant at Ramayana so breakfast is in a make do spot at the momment.
did not get bali belly!!
i used the aquim gel and inner health capsules.
Found a great place for foot treatments etc right next door to mc donalds on the beach - beautiful comfortable chairs and great foot massage 1hr 65,000
well i had a great time my mum and aunt are still there for another week but i have children and 1 week is enough for me away from them!!
Hope you enjoyed my JBR Thankyou to everyone who answered my questions before i left.
saving up for next year!!!
regards mel