Random Thoughts

My Mom, sister and I had a getaway in Bali, Indonesia a couple of weekends ago. WE left Manila, September 4, 8PM arrived in Jakarta at 11PM (Indonesia time).



(**Check out how our quick stop over went here **)

When we arrived at the Ngurah Rai Denpasar airport, I knew that this trip will be fun, fun, fun! The weather was perfect!

We immediately hailed a cab at the airport to bring us to Rama Garden Hotel. We passed by Denpasar City and I noticed that shops were everywhere! This is when we realized that our 2-day stay in Bali will never be enough.

So we decided to plan our itinerary and make sure that we make the most out of it. Our priorities for the trip include:

1. Shopping
2. City and Outside the City Tour
3. Swim
4. Eat the food that are not available in Manila
5. Take photos!
6. Get a Balinese Massage in a nice hotel

For 2 days we were able to do all these! We were dead-tired but very happy and even wanted to go back hopefully in the next few years.

Our stay in Rama Garden Hotel was a gift to my Mom when she attended the Astoria time sharing presentation. At first we thought that it was just a so-so hotel since it was free but when we saw it we were impressed.


A walkway on the way to our room...

(More photos in my travel blog soon!)

Rama Garden Hotel is located in Legian a very nice location. It was near the shops and a walking distance to the beach! They also have their own pool. No breakfast included in the package though but we didn't have time to eat breakfast in the hotel anyway because we had to start early to be able to explore a lot in Bali!

After settling down in our room and unpacked a few of our stuff, we started exploring the island!

Our first stop - the beach!





At first it wasn't impressive probably because the sand is gray but when my sister and I went swimming the next day, I totally fell in love with it. It's like you are walking on a velvet floor. It was too fine, the sand stuck on my bathing suit. LOL! Too bad we only had half an hour to swim because we needed to prepare for our 1 whole day tour to Bedugul.

Next to our list - Shopping and Food!



Shopping was one of the highlights of the trip and I was surprised that prices there were cheaper compared to Manila. Almost all of the brands were there - Ralph Lauren, Billabong, Mossimo, Roxy, D&G, and a lot, lot more of local souvenirs, dresses, tops, shorts and more.

The food was also not pricey. We loved the Balinese food so much. You can opt to get not too spicy food so we enjoyed it very much.



We also had 1 day tour to Bedugul which was quite popular there. Here's a photo of us taken in Bedugul. More details soon.





Lastly the Balinese massage which they were known for. My Mom promised herself that she will never leave Bali without it. True enough we had a massage twice! One by the local Manangs by the beach and the other one (which was unforgettable and very heavenly) was at Mandira Hotel.

There are more photos and stories to share. Watch out more in my travel blog. I wanted to post everything here but I've got no time since I need to find steps in doing LSAT prep for a cousin in the States. I just read that there are already available online so I better check and forward it to her.