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INDIA | Monday, 9 November 2009 | Views [1056]

Surabaya:

We only stayed in Surabaya one night, because I was not feeling well due to my lip piercing getting really infected and sore, but the day afterwards we went to the local cigarette museum. The local smokes are call Sampoerna and they are 60 percent tobacco and 40 percent cloves. The locals believe that they cure asthma and are soothing for the throat. Afterwards we got onto a rickshaw, which is like a carriage with a seat on the front of a push bike. We road around the main city, looking at all the local warung (small roadside eateries) and little houses and shops. Everyone STARED at us. Literally. Mostly men would smile and say things to us. And it was strange because we didn't see one other Caucasian in the whole town. It was kind of like being a celebrity.


Bali, Legian & Kuta


As soon as we jumped out of the plane, we could feel the humidity sticking to our skins. We jumped in a cab, and headed towards a resort where my other family on my dads side happened to be. My other grandma, uncle aunty and cousin were all staying there. When we got there I called them from the hotel lobby as a surprise and they came down to see me. It was really cool to see them again! We ended up booking a room at the same resort and just soaked up the sun. On our first proper day we were just chilling on the beach, you cant go two minutes without someone coming up saying “sunglass miss?” or “Massaaggee? Maniceewwrre?”. You just have to be polite and say maybe later, but they take you up on it and make you promise them you will come back, and if they see you again then they will run up and say “YOU PROMISE YOU BUY FROM ME!!”


On our second day we went down the main street shopping and glaring at other tourists resembling lobsters with Bintang singlets stuck to them with sweat. Little did we know that would be us by the next day!


I was sitting out side the internet cafe in Legian when this girl named Emma came out of it in this pretty dress. I asked her where she got it and we got chatting and as it turned out she had two spare beds in her room and we were looking for a room. So off we went to her little bungalow.

We went out for some fresh lobster, prawns and fish. Soooooo yummy! We went to this place afterwards called the Bounty Club playing awesome music and had a foam pit! A giant pit of foam next to massive speakers and crazy lights. Me and the girl we met, Emma, jumped in and started tripping each other and sliding around in the foam. So much fun.


The next day we hired a taxi to go up to this little quieter village town called Ubud. We stopped on the way at a safari park and saw heaps of interesting animals. We also stopped and went for a walk to this old as temple next to the beach. We stayed there for a couple of days. A nice relaxed atmosphere, which Mum loved. We visited this place called the Monkey Temple which is this old as temple in the rainforest. The monkeys there where really aggressive and had bitten and attacked some of the tourists. One massive one jumped straight onto my head from no where and gave me the biggest fright ever! It grabbed my whole bag of bananas and then ran away. Cheeky things. I'm lucky I didn't get bitten though, I definitely don't want rabies!


After Ubud we went back to Legian again for one night, seeing as the airport is way closer for the plane the next morning.


Stopped off at Singapore for a few hours, just for a transit and so we could post some clothes we bought in Bali.

 

 

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