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Bali Bali Bali!!!!
Well I left Australia after my whole year travelling mainly up the east coast and headed for my last trip before i headed back to scotland my home...
My friend Lucy decided to come with me to bali... I had already booked the hotel which was the HARD ROCK HOTEL in Kuta beach.... so it was just the getting there not missing flights and having a lovely relaxing holiday....
Lucy booked her flights seperate as mine were included in my package flight home.. so we left on different days which was a shame... but to be fair dont know if i could cope with lucy for 9 hours on a flight.... ha hahah only kidding luce!!
I arrived to the airport very tired and needing my bed... as always the heat hit me as soon as i stepped off the plane and little miss sensible here was wearing her uug boots, leggings, skirt, t-shirt and cardi!!! i was boiling....
Anyways... on arrival to the airport i had to get a short term visa to stay in Bali.. It cost $25 US, i then went to collect my bags only to find a nice friendly (or so i thought) porter decided to collect it for me... i was like 'thanks mate' only to find he wanted to get paid!!!!!!!!!!!!! i didnt have any change only 100000 rupia which is about $14 which is like a million pound to them.... and he was like shouting at me so i had to give him it!!!
anyway after that i walked outside to find my name held up on a bit of cardboard i felt like a mini celeb!!! ha ha he walked me to the car and we drove to Kuta via Dempasar where the airport is.
HARD ROCK HOTEL!!!! this place was amazing huge!!! to be fair i did treat myself......Even looked better than the pictures on the website..... oh the excitement... but it was 1am and all i could think of was bed... I got my bags taken to my room by the bell boy, oh royality!!!!ha ha. Arrived to the room and went to my bed (my big huge massive king size bed).......
Following day i headed down to have a look around the hotel... Each section of the hotel had a different music catagory
- Block 1 - Rock 'n' Roll
- Block 2 - Reggae
- Block 3 - Blues
- Block 4 - Psychedelic
- Block 5 - Pop
- Block 6 - Alternative
pretty cool eh!?!? i was in the Reggae area!!! bob marley i heart u!!!!
There were 2 seperate pool areas when i say 2 i mean 2 huge pool areas (have a look at the photo's... Pool Side Cabana's, Spa/Gym, Water Bar, rock climbing wall,recording studio, very own radio station, the lot!!! Bar in main area and live music every night!!! how cool!!
So first thing i did was head down to the pool then for a massage!!!! love it!!!!
That evening lucy was arriving was ace to have company..... we had a quiet one that nite from once in ages ordered room service and went to bed!!!
Following morning we went for breakfast only to be turned away as i didnt have a top over my bikini top!!! how embarrasing! think i forgot we were in such a posh hotel.... so back to the room to add some clothing and then second attempt at breakfast....
me and lucy both didnt have our digi cam's as mine was broken and lucy lost her's.. so we went back to the old fashion film camera's!!!! it was huge.... and we called it JAGER!!
The next few days we pretty much stayed by the pool/went shopping and out for dinner in the evenings...
The markets were fun.... i wasnt so good at the old bartering!!! the manie offered me something for 3500 rupia and i said 4000 rupia!!! lucy was laughing her head off and so was the man!!! cant believe i was offering him more money than he asked for.... seriously i should be blonde!!!
4th day we booked a tour with Sumatra one of the bell boys... Early morning pick up and we headed to a factory where they make balinease clothes, interesting but tad boring, left after 5 mins lol, then on to how they make silver, and on to a monkey farm!!!! this was pretty cool however slightly frightening..... Lucy went into her bag to get the camera and the monkey's thought she was getting food and they jamp onto her.... she started screaming i started screaming and everyone stared at us.... was hilarious...
From there we headed to a gorgeous hotel, cant remember the name but it took us to the most beautiful view of the hill's surrounding bali... it was amazing.
Few other stops including the local hospital, school and we even passed through the prison... which was scary from the outside to say the least..
Following day we went white water rafting!!! oh the fun!!! again have a look at the photo's!!!
All in all it was a good holiday!! such a laugh.. especially with lucy, the pair of us were like dumb and dumber!!!
Bali was an interesting place, but prob not somewhere i would go again! The beaches wernt that nice, especially kuta beach, to be fair our hotel pool was spectacular we didnt need a beach!!!!
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