Friday, September 25, 2009

Bali Day 1 - 18 September 2009

My first time on a plane, flying across ocean... and it went to the awesome island called Bali. Bali is part of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim and yet almost 90% of Balinese are Hindu. That's why you can see a lot of Ganesha's and Buddha's face all around Bali.
Flight was at 9:50am. Reached KLIA main terminal at about 7:45am.

Almost everyone has arrived. Two went to LCCT because the taxi uncle sent them wrong way. Luckily they made it in time to check in. We fly by Malaysia Airlines.


Suaku, you may say about me, but first time flying, what can you say. I guess everyone who fly first time will take pics of clouds from above. The pics here looks like 3 animals to me..haha.
Since it's MAS, we had breakfast on board with a choice if roti canai or nasi lemak. We chose nasi lemak.
It actually came with a pink guava juice as seen on pics. And also 3 biji Ferrero Rocher and Jacker Wafer Biscuit(which has been taken out). The nasi lemak was nice. Small portion though but no complaints there as I had 3 pieces of cake at home, then had McDonalds breakfast at KLIA. Quite full. Haha.

Pics below is stewardess in action, serving breakfast to everyone.





We touch down at Bali at about 12:55pm. We were flying really close above the sea before landing as the airport runway is right beside the sea. Kinda a bit scary..haha.
Went through immigration without much hustle..long queue cos it's holidays. When collecting our luggage, the drama begins. We couldn't find 5 of our luggages. We had 21ppl coming to bali and 5 of them are missing, including mine, my gf's, my boss' and 2 of the boys. According to my boss, this is the first time the luggage is missing since they started flying around.
We went to lodge a report. They said the luggages were stranded at KLIA. Luckily there's another MAS flight coming to Bali in the evening, and they can bring the luggages along. They promise to deliver the luggages to our hotel in Ubud once they arrived. So we take our copy of report and leave the airport, with 7 of us without our clean clothes to wear for the whole day, hopefully. We leave at about 2:30pm to Ubud.

Reaced our hotel at about 3:50pm. Yulia Village Inn was located at Jalan Monkey Forest in Ubud. The road is full of shops on both sides, be it selling souvenirs, t-shirts, sarongs, restaurants, hotels, bungalows, spa and not forgetting the Monkey Forest.









We went to have our lunch at a nearby restaurant. Ubud Village Restaurant. Since it's about 4:30pm when we went there, we had a light meal as our supposed dinner was supposed to be at around 7pm...which was pushed back to 8pm. Pics below is one of their signature sandwich.




After that we went jalan jalan along the road to see if there's anything interesting to buy. Interesting view all the way and they sell interesting stuff also. After that, we went back to hotel. Bad news, luggages haven't arrive yet. Everyone else went to dinner with clean clothes. 7 of us went to dinner after bath with dirty clothes.

Dinner at Wayan cafe, only a few minutes walk from the hotel. We sit on the floor with coffee table, which is quite a tricky way to sit for my boss and also myself with long legs. Haha. Need to adjust the way i sit a few times. I had Wayan's Chicken Curry. It was good.

Oh. When we get back to hotel after dinner, we got news that the luggages have arrived in Bali, but not sure yet when will reach the hotel cos there were few others who share the same bad luck as us. If they are staying at Kuta or Nusa Dua area, they'll get it first. We're staying at Ubud which is in the middle of Bali, so, it's most likely that we are the last one to get it. And alas, we got it at about 11pm. Yay. Clean clothes.
Here's some pics of the hotel we were staying. Bed looks nice. And they are so kedekut giving only syampoo..no bath foam also. And 2 shower cap. And 2 mineral water.




Ok. That's basically first day at Bali. Will continue with day 2 later. For more pics, can check it out at my facebook photos.

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