Monday 3rd July,
So today was the start of our own touring, after a late (10am) and lazy start, we toured around Nusa Dua, we hadn't really had a chance to check it out in the daylight, then down to GWK, for an hour or so, looking at the statues, views and all those stairs hehehe... then making our way back to Nusa Dua we visited Dreamland beach... it cost only 5000 for parking I suppose.
Anyway it was still early in the day, I said I wanted to go back to the hotel because I haven't even swam in the ocean yet, and haven't even bothered getting a tan or a little sunburnt. My boyfriends like oh no, you cant swim in the middle of the day (it was about midday) its too hot.. indonesian's have a funny fear of the sun, worrying it will make them black ... hahaha.. by the way he's half Javanese half ambonese but he's really fair skinned for someone from those areas. Anyway he gave in and came swimming with me till about 3pm . And yeh I got burnt, and so did he actually hehehe... but it was a lovely way to laze the afternoon away, we went from the ocean to the pool, and the next pool and the next .. we had to try them all.
This evening we had planned to drive ourselves to Jimbaran, we took our drivers suggestion of his friends resturant (everyone always knows someone) so we took off from the hotel about 5.30 and didn't take us long to reach out destination, we had dinner at TIRAM CAFÉ (Oyster Café) the whole dinner with drinks cost us about 500 thousand. It included, sweet corn soup, a vegetable dish with your meal, steamed rice, and mixed fruits at the end. All was really yummy.
Tuesday 4th July
Today, was our shopping day. Because if I leave bali without buy something people will think im crazy.
So after another late start, we headed over to Geneva Handicrafts, which I must say is a great store. I still didn't get to explore everything, but we only wanted small and simple souvenirs anyway. We bought, heaps of little knickknacks and it all cost under 100,000 rp.
Then, we headed into Denpasar to another great fixed priced store. Apparently not many people know about this place. Its popular with Jakarta tourists, especially from the government, my friend who's dad is the ex governor of Bali told us about it. I got 4 beach sarongs at 10000 each, t shirts at either 12,000 or up to 20000, depends on quality I guess, and light blankets at about 40,000. Its all the same stuff you would find in any other stalls on Bali. Its called Erlangga on Jln Nusa Kambangan No 28.
I hate shopping, so a fixed price shop is good enough for me. I had all this done in about 4omins. They do sell everything such as neck laces, braclets, childrens clothing, thongs, swimwear, well I guess it sells everything you can think of.