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.
