Bali Day 2- 19 September 2009

Day 2 started with a bang. My alarm was actually set at 7.30am. But at approx 7:06am, I was awoken by a loud sound. In my blurness, I noticed that my bed is moving around... like when you are in a bus on a long and bumpy road. OMG!! It's earthquake! You can hear the buildings and windows vibrating. It stopped after awhile.

I went outside to see that everyone is actually outside, asking what is going on. They say it's earthquake...not sure where yet. First time they felt that strong tremor in Bali as per the hotel staff. I went back in and freshen up. On the Tv to see if there's any news about the earthquake. Voila. There was. The epicentre was in the ocean, about 75km south of Denpasar. Oh well, we all continue with breakfast without any panic or what and continue the day as planned.

After breakfast, our first stop is the Monkey Forest visiting the mischievious monkeys. Monkeys as usual are quite scary but here are not that scary. They only want food. You can actually buy bananas at the entrance to feed them monkeys. Usual things u can see is finding kutu la. You can see the pics down here that they really enjoy it, even until showing your butt to everyone.

Ah, the relaxing mood...

So, after hanging at the Monkey forest for like 2 hours from 9am to 11am, we head all the way to the other end of the road to have our lunch. Not all the way as there bound to be someone stopped at the shops on both sides of the road to grab something as it's our last day to shop there.

BABI GULING!!! Yay, you must try this when you come to Bali. The restaurant we went, Ibu OKA Babi Guling was packed with ppl, even got long queue when we reached at about 11:45am. we managed to get a big square table what we have to squeeze to fit all of us. Pics below. It's nice but the skin is everyly crispy until it's damn hard. Poor Babi.

After lunch, we went to Ubud Market to do a little of shopping. Bought some clothes and vanilla. Then is Spa time!

We went to Verona Spa which is just located at a lorong beside our hotel. Booked the package..which lasted 4 hours to finish. Nice place, nice massage, but ducks outside is so noisy when massaging. Ka ka cau cau.

After spa, is dinner time. Also nearby at Dian Restaurant. Most of the guys had tasty food but the one I had, Set Bebek (crispy duck) is not so nice. Rice is too sticky, duck was dry and portion was so small. Not full at all. We had another crispy duck the next day, that one is much better. Check out the day 3 next ya.

Bye.