November 11, 2012:
As the islands of gods, a lot of people want to come here, including my workmates. Some of them have ever gone to Bali, some of them have not. They also plan a trip to Lombok too on this long weekend. The thing is, although they ask me to join them, I don't plan to go, because:
- I have gone to Bali for 3 times
- Tickets are expensive on long weekend
- It's only 3 days, not long enough
Now, I am preparing and counting down to the day, too, sharing the excitement with them, because apparently one of my workmates can't go. She has work to do and she has to let her tickets completely used up. The tickets worth 1,2 million rupiah and it's really wasteful if we let it used up like that, so I take it. Hehe. Other workmates ask me to take it, too, and I asked the ticket owner. She said, "Yeah, take it. Moreover, take it as a gift because I ever lied to you that I moved to Japan." So the story is like this, she ever played on me and I was tricked for months believing that she really went to Japan. Hahaha if every time people lie to me they give me free tickets, you may lie to me as much as you want.
So in brief, I will go to Bali and Lombok without paying the round-trip ticket! Can't wait, 3 days to go! Gonna share the story and photos of this quick getaway soon!
November 24, 2012:
Finally weekend! Been so busy through the week, at last now I have some leisure time to post this. Since what I'm going to tell is in the past, I should use Past Tense! Oh dang. Hehe. Okay here it is, let's have a flashback:
November 14, 2012:
Packing in the morning since on the day before, my friend from Kediri came and I arrived home late at night. Then I went to the office, tried to do what I needed to do, but no longer concentrated. At 12.00 the four of us went to the airport by taxi and met the rest two there. Our flight was actually at 5. Haha. Then it was delayed, too, so we arrived at Bali at 9 p.m. local time. We just ate KFC at the airport because we were so hungry that we could eat dinosaurs! One of my friends said, "I don't feel like we are in Bali now. It just feels like we are in Jakarta, having dinner together after work." Well yes, since we were eating KFC like in Jakarta, and the people were same: Mala, Cilla, Anet, Ocha, Tyas, and Me. Our conversation were same too, the usual topic about office. Plus it's night already so we could see nothing so "Bali" there. So the real adventure started tomorrow.
November 15, 2012:
Woke up and prepared to be picked up at 7 a.m. An ELF car took us to Padang Bay where we would ride the speedboat to Gili Trawangan. There were already 6 foreigners there. Me, Cilla, Tyas, and Mala sat on the back seat while Anet & Ocha were in the front. After some time, suddenly we heard Bon Jovi's song was played in the car. Cilla immediately told me in smirk, "This must be Anet who chooses the song!" Haha and yes, we could hear them giggling in the front.
Arrived at Padang Bay, there was a sweet girl wearing purple shirt offered people to buy drink and snack. Me and Cilla called her because we wanted to buy mineral water. That sweet girll said, "Oh you are Indonesian? I thought you are tourist from overseas."Then Cilla took a small bottle and asked, "How much?" and she answered, "Rp. 5.000,-" Okay, Cilla paid. After that Tyas said, "Why don't you buy the bigger one since we will be thirsty on the boat." Cilla and me didn't see that there's a bigger bottle. Apparently there's a woman selling it. We called that woman. "How much that one?" we asked. That woman said, "Rp. 5.000,-" We said, "No, that big bottle." And that woman said, "Yes, Rp. 5.000,-" HAHA. So we bought it while laughing seeing Cilla's face.
Our ferriage was smooth and I felt asleep for a while. We arrived at Gili Trawangan at 11 a.m. and it was very very very hot there! We checked in to Pondok Sederhana (or in English a super duper Simple Cottage haha) and our bedrooms had no AC. Couldn't stand this hot weather any longer, we looked for the nearest food stall to drink and we found Warung Indonesia. We drank 2 big glasses of sweet ice tea each person!
After resting for a while from this super killing sun, we immediately headed to beach again for island hopping. Rented bicycle is Rp. 35.000,-/24 hours per person. Rented boat plus 2 guides and snorkels and life jackets is Rp. 800.000,- for 6 of us.
Our first destination is Gili Meno Island. I tried snorkeling for the first time of my life there. I was so scared although I wore my life jacket haha. I just held onto the boat and didn't want to release it. My friends laughed so hard at me and even captured that moment of embarrassment Thanks God the guide was so patient and great in teaching me that I finally did it! So much fun!
After that we went to Gili Air, the pretty island with so many fishes. We bought biscuit so that the fish would come and surround us. Unfortunately, the sky was dark and we could hear thunder! So we had to return soon because of the high tide as well. We agreed if next time we go there again we will stay in Gili Air, it's less crowded hehe.
Before returning to our cottage, Anet, Ocha, and Mala wanted to buy dresses. I, Cilla, and Tyas had brought our own thought. What's shocking was the three of them bought the same dresses, just in different colors. They were really suitable for singing, "Mama yu kero Mama yu kero" performed by Dono, Kasino, Indro! Hahaha. Eh, and we had some trouble with our bikes. We couldn't open the locks which used codes. Actually the owner had explained to us but we didn't really take it seriously since it's too hot! So we paid what we had done. Haha. Many people came to help us and finally the codes were solved and we could go home.
After bathing, we wore the dresses and headed to Villa Ombak on the right side of our cottage. What a beautiful place! It's so romantic and calm and pretty. We really loved it. Snapped some photos and relaxed before looking for dinner. The restaurant were super duper slow! We almost died in hunger. There's a funny thing. So, Anet's food had come and we could see that what's supposed to be steak looked more like "Semur" (Indonesian traditional food, watery) and one of us said, "It's weird to see you eat french fries with Semur. Why don't you order rice?" And Anet said in sadness, "I thought steak and rice don't match, that's why I ordered french fries. But now after the steak (weird steak that looked and tasted like Semur) comes, it doesn't match with french fries." Hoahaha. I couldn't stop laughing.
November 16, 2012:
Fast forward to the next morning, I didn't catch the sunrise but my friend did! After that we planned to bike around the island, but we didn't bring water. We thought we could buy but apparently the shop hadn't opened yet. I couldn't tell you and you wouldn't imagine how it felt to bike around that not-so-small island without water and the road was terrible. It's like, road, sand, road, sand, road, sand, and so on. So we couldn't keep pedaling on sand and instead, we should walk with our bikes. After we saw Villa Ombak, which meant we were near to the cottage, we were so happy like heaven! As usual, drank 2 glasses of sweet ice tea! We also got breakfast from Pondok Sederhana, like omelette or pancake. One person only needed to pay Rp. 50.000,- per night.
Due to the tight deadline, we packed again because at 11.00 a.m. we got to return to Bali. However, there's a problem when the speedboat agent made mistake and we should took another speedboat, not the one we used to come here. That speedboat was longer-shaped and it caused in some rumble-tumble on the sea. Me and Cilla were screaming in silence and Mala laughed so hard at us! Haha.
Safely arrived at Padang Bay, Bali, we were picked up by Bli Made. Heading to Bebek Bengil Ubud to have lunch and because of the traffic jam we just arrived at 3 p.m. Oh Bali, your traffic jam was not much different from Jakarta. Eating like crazy with chili and yummy ducky.
In the evening, we went to KU.DE.TA to catch and sunset and snap some photos. Well it turned out to be amazing since we had this legendary photo: The Sun Dancing.
If Anet called her jump as the Sun Dancing, I called mine the Sea Dancing. Ocha's jump is X Factor Dancing. Hehe.
At night, we walked along Legian Street and Kuta and it's so tiring. Remembering that we had had our bodies broken because of snorkeling and biking, my butt felt so hurt! Hehe.
November 17, 2012:
Last day, bought Milk Pie and went to Krisna and Joger for shopping. We had our lunch in Babi Guling Bu Oka and Ayam Betutu. Super HOT chicken but you should try it! Then we went to airport again to fly back to Jakarta. Delay again, approximately 20 minutes. Safely landed in Soekarno Hatta International Airport at 6 p.m. Returning from a quick getaway with so many memory and photos scandal. Missing Dogai and my mom so much. Hehe. See you on the next trip!
November 14, 2012:
Packing in the morning since on the day before, my friend from Kediri came and I arrived home late at night. Then I went to the office, tried to do what I needed to do, but no longer concentrated. At 12.00 the four of us went to the airport by taxi and met the rest two there. Our flight was actually at 5. Haha. Then it was delayed, too, so we arrived at Bali at 9 p.m. local time. We just ate KFC at the airport because we were so hungry that we could eat dinosaurs! One of my friends said, "I don't feel like we are in Bali now. It just feels like we are in Jakarta, having dinner together after work." Well yes, since we were eating KFC like in Jakarta, and the people were same: Mala, Cilla, Anet, Ocha, Tyas, and Me. Our conversation were same too, the usual topic about office. Plus it's night already so we could see nothing so "Bali" there. So the real adventure started tomorrow.
November 15, 2012:
Woke up and prepared to be picked up at 7 a.m. An ELF car took us to Padang Bay where we would ride the speedboat to Gili Trawangan. There were already 6 foreigners there. Me, Cilla, Tyas, and Mala sat on the back seat while Anet & Ocha were in the front. After some time, suddenly we heard Bon Jovi's song was played in the car. Cilla immediately told me in smirk, "This must be Anet who chooses the song!" Haha and yes, we could hear them giggling in the front.
Arrived at Padang Bay, there was a sweet girl wearing purple shirt offered people to buy drink and snack. Me and Cilla called her because we wanted to buy mineral water. That sweet girll said, "Oh you are Indonesian? I thought you are tourist from overseas."Then Cilla took a small bottle and asked, "How much?" and she answered, "Rp. 5.000,-" Okay, Cilla paid. After that Tyas said, "Why don't you buy the bigger one since we will be thirsty on the boat." Cilla and me didn't see that there's a bigger bottle. Apparently there's a woman selling it. We called that woman. "How much that one?" we asked. That woman said, "Rp. 5.000,-" We said, "No, that big bottle." And that woman said, "Yes, Rp. 5.000,-" HAHA. So we bought it while laughing seeing Cilla's face.
Our ferriage was smooth and I felt asleep for a while. We arrived at Gili Trawangan at 11 a.m. and it was very very very hot there! We checked in to Pondok Sederhana (or in English a super duper Simple Cottage haha) and our bedrooms had no AC. Couldn't stand this hot weather any longer, we looked for the nearest food stall to drink and we found Warung Indonesia. We drank 2 big glasses of sweet ice tea each person!
After resting for a while from this super killing sun, we immediately headed to beach again for island hopping. Rented bicycle is Rp. 35.000,-/24 hours per person. Rented boat plus 2 guides and snorkels and life jackets is Rp. 800.000,- for 6 of us.
Our first destination is Gili Meno Island. I tried snorkeling for the first time of my life there. I was so scared although I wore my life jacket haha. I just held onto the boat and didn't want to release it. My friends laughed so hard at me and even captured that moment of embarrassment Thanks God the guide was so patient and great in teaching me that I finally did it! So much fun!
After that we went to Gili Air, the pretty island with so many fishes. We bought biscuit so that the fish would come and surround us. Unfortunately, the sky was dark and we could hear thunder! So we had to return soon because of the high tide as well. We agreed if next time we go there again we will stay in Gili Air, it's less crowded hehe.
Before returning to our cottage, Anet, Ocha, and Mala wanted to buy dresses. I, Cilla, and Tyas had brought our own thought. What's shocking was the three of them bought the same dresses, just in different colors. They were really suitable for singing, "Mama yu kero Mama yu kero" performed by Dono, Kasino, Indro! Hahaha. Eh, and we had some trouble with our bikes. We couldn't open the locks which used codes. Actually the owner had explained to us but we didn't really take it seriously since it's too hot! So we paid what we had done. Haha. Many people came to help us and finally the codes were solved and we could go home.
After bathing, we wore the dresses and headed to Villa Ombak on the right side of our cottage. What a beautiful place! It's so romantic and calm and pretty. We really loved it. Snapped some photos and relaxed before looking for dinner. The restaurant were super duper slow! We almost died in hunger. There's a funny thing. So, Anet's food had come and we could see that what's supposed to be steak looked more like "Semur" (Indonesian traditional food, watery) and one of us said, "It's weird to see you eat french fries with Semur. Why don't you order rice?" And Anet said in sadness, "I thought steak and rice don't match, that's why I ordered french fries. But now after the steak (weird steak that looked and tasted like Semur) comes, it doesn't match with french fries." Hoahaha. I couldn't stop laughing.
November 16, 2012:
Fast forward to the next morning, I didn't catch the sunrise but my friend did! After that we planned to bike around the island, but we didn't bring water. We thought we could buy but apparently the shop hadn't opened yet. I couldn't tell you and you wouldn't imagine how it felt to bike around that not-so-small island without water and the road was terrible. It's like, road, sand, road, sand, road, sand, and so on. So we couldn't keep pedaling on sand and instead, we should walk with our bikes. After we saw Villa Ombak, which meant we were near to the cottage, we were so happy like heaven! As usual, drank 2 glasses of sweet ice tea! We also got breakfast from Pondok Sederhana, like omelette or pancake. One person only needed to pay Rp. 50.000,- per night.
Due to the tight deadline, we packed again because at 11.00 a.m. we got to return to Bali. However, there's a problem when the speedboat agent made mistake and we should took another speedboat, not the one we used to come here. That speedboat was longer-shaped and it caused in some rumble-tumble on the sea. Me and Cilla were screaming in silence and Mala laughed so hard at us! Haha.
Safely arrived at Padang Bay, Bali, we were picked up by Bli Made. Heading to Bebek Bengil Ubud to have lunch and because of the traffic jam we just arrived at 3 p.m. Oh Bali, your traffic jam was not much different from Jakarta. Eating like crazy with chili and yummy ducky.
In the evening, we went to KU.DE.TA to catch and sunset and snap some photos. Well it turned out to be amazing since we had this legendary photo: The Sun Dancing.
At night, we walked along Legian Street and Kuta and it's so tiring. Remembering that we had had our bodies broken because of snorkeling and biking, my butt felt so hurt! Hehe.
November 17, 2012:
Last day, bought Milk Pie and went to Krisna and Joger for shopping. We had our lunch in Babi Guling Bu Oka and Ayam Betutu. Super HOT chicken but you should try it! Then we went to airport again to fly back to Jakarta. Delay again, approximately 20 minutes. Safely landed in Soekarno Hatta International Airport at 6 p.m. Returning from a quick getaway with so many memory and photos scandal. Missing Dogai and my mom so much. Hehe. See you on the next trip!
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