20th October 2006
Around 4 am, I woke up and smelt fish, it must be the fishermen coming back with their catch.
My last chance, I set my alarm clock to 5. When it rung, I was trying to drag for few more minutes. Then I walked up. Everyone was still asleep. The sky was still dark. I went up to the sundeck and waited up for the sunrise. The wind was freezing cold but everything was calm and beautiful. I could see Sumbawa island. When the sky finally went reddish, it was time for pictures! Every crew was already awaked at this point.
On 7.45 am, we had finally land on the seaport and touched the land again. I thought I would feel ‘the shaky’ but amazingly, not at all, apparently, others did have the feeling. We boarded a bigger van, now could accommodate all of all and luggage inside. We went to airport early because we didn’t want to get caught in Friday prayer traffic. We saw delman, mountainous landscape all the way, I didn’t enjoy much, because I slept, slept, slept, other version of enjoyment.
One hour plus, we reached airport and checked in everything. There was a small little shop where we could buy teh botol, coke, and tidbits. Since the flight was still sometime away, midday, we played card.
The plane was a slightly better plane that the one we took to Labuan Bajo. This time, Sape-Denpasar only took 45 minutes to fly. It was a very short flight and soon, we touched down in Bali. After exchanged information, and envied to the two German who would continue diving in Lombok, we went out and meet another GK ambassador, we bought a T-shirt each. It was nicely compressed as a shape of heart, then we proceed to the guy from ADA, who picked us up once again.
This time, no road block, we reached hotel around one plus, dropped our luggage and went out for shopping and sight seeing around Kuta Bali despite the hot weather. We had lunch at McD, nice chicken! McD here doesn’t have chicken, or rice.
The nice shop around Kuta, they all wore expensive price tag, anyway, we had nothing much to buy, except, some DVDs!
After circling one round, nearby hotel, we decided to walk around Poppies, the narrow cluster of road full with shops, to the Kuta Beach. It was quite a long walk, but the weather got friendlier.
Kuta Beach was as beautiful as it was, this time, it was crowded, full of surfer, sun-tanning tourist, volleyball, and many activities. It was so full that I forgot one time it was deserted because if the bomb. When we visited it midyear 2002, before the first bomb, Kuta wasn’t that crowded too.
After enjoying the scenery for awhile, the salesmen kept disturbing us, from tattoo, hair art, to rug seller and necklace seller. Anyway, we didn’t look like fun tourist. We wore caps and normal shirt and short instead of swimming suit running to the water.
We took delman, horseriding back to the hotel, it was a fun ride, at least for me, who got better position. I thought I could sit in front with Cynthia, but then only one person in front with the driver, three of them squeezed at the back, we jammed out the whole road. Kekekeke.
Back to hotel, we played and chatted at the swimming pool, minus Froggie. My dive computer refused that the trip had over and still tried to log as new dive every time I submerged inside the water.
We showered and went out for dinner. We had this dinner at one fine dining place, the food was so-so and we had to watch a fish met its destiny when the table next to us ordered it. So after that, we went to the road side to get satay.
We ended the night with movies, each in own room, because we already watched their show and that night we preferred Animal Planet again. Not for long, we passed out.
21th October 2006
So long Bali..
Until next time..
Around 4 am, I woke up and smelt fish, it must be the fishermen coming back with their catch.
My last chance, I set my alarm clock to 5. When it rung, I was trying to drag for few more minutes. Then I walked up. Everyone was still asleep. The sky was still dark. I went up to the sundeck and waited up for the sunrise. The wind was freezing cold but everything was calm and beautiful. I could see Sumbawa island. When the sky finally went reddish, it was time for pictures! Every crew was already awaked at this point.
On 7.45 am, we had finally land on the seaport and touched the land again. I thought I would feel ‘the shaky’ but amazingly, not at all, apparently, others did have the feeling. We boarded a bigger van, now could accommodate all of all and luggage inside. We went to airport early because we didn’t want to get caught in Friday prayer traffic. We saw delman, mountainous landscape all the way, I didn’t enjoy much, because I slept, slept, slept, other version of enjoyment.
One hour plus, we reached airport and checked in everything. There was a small little shop where we could buy teh botol, coke, and tidbits. Since the flight was still sometime away, midday, we played card.
The plane was a slightly better plane that the one we took to Labuan Bajo. This time, Sape-Denpasar only took 45 minutes to fly. It was a very short flight and soon, we touched down in Bali. After exchanged information, and envied to the two German who would continue diving in Lombok, we went out and meet another GK ambassador, we bought a T-shirt each. It was nicely compressed as a shape of heart, then we proceed to the guy from ADA, who picked us up once again.
This time, no road block, we reached hotel around one plus, dropped our luggage and went out for shopping and sight seeing around Kuta Bali despite the hot weather. We had lunch at McD, nice chicken! McD here doesn’t have chicken, or rice.
The nice shop around Kuta, they all wore expensive price tag, anyway, we had nothing much to buy, except, some DVDs!
After circling one round, nearby hotel, we decided to walk around Poppies, the narrow cluster of road full with shops, to the Kuta Beach. It was quite a long walk, but the weather got friendlier.
Kuta Beach was as beautiful as it was, this time, it was crowded, full of surfer, sun-tanning tourist, volleyball, and many activities. It was so full that I forgot one time it was deserted because if the bomb. When we visited it midyear 2002, before the first bomb, Kuta wasn’t that crowded too.
After enjoying the scenery for awhile, the salesmen kept disturbing us, from tattoo, hair art, to rug seller and necklace seller. Anyway, we didn’t look like fun tourist. We wore caps and normal shirt and short instead of swimming suit running to the water.
We took delman, horseriding back to the hotel, it was a fun ride, at least for me, who got better position. I thought I could sit in front with Cynthia, but then only one person in front with the driver, three of them squeezed at the back, we jammed out the whole road. Kekekeke.
Back to hotel, we played and chatted at the swimming pool, minus Froggie. My dive computer refused that the trip had over and still tried to log as new dive every time I submerged inside the water.
We showered and went out for dinner. We had this dinner at one fine dining place, the food was so-so and we had to watch a fish met its destiny when the table next to us ordered it. So after that, we went to the road side to get satay.
We ended the night with movies, each in own room, because we already watched their show and that night we preferred Animal Planet again. Not for long, we passed out.
21th October 2006
So long Bali..
Until next time..
posted by aping at 2:41 AM
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