A nice 2 days in the cool of the mountains at the Pacung Indah was not enough. It never is, but we never seem to learn and plan our stays there far too short.
If you want a salad you must go to Pacung, the vegetable basket of Bali I, (we), think. The tomato was so fresh every time you would swear that the cook just reached out of his window and picked it to put especially on your plate. Maybe he really did!
Likewise the cucumber, bell peppers and real lettuce, not just the immitation skinned cabbage of the lowlands. All with delicious dressings to suit.
The meals that we had here were all very good and we would recommend this place to anyone.
We had the suite which had the 'Loo with a View' again and the renovations are so recent we thought we detected the smell of fresh paint several times. The 'vuuuu' from the 'loooo', regretably, is not what it once was. The jungle is intruding from below and new electricity cables hang from the heavens across the sky and drop into the valley somewhere. A new hot water system is just great in the shower, with a new shower rose, but is a distraction to the left of the luuuu's vuuuu. Maybe one day all will return as it once was and as we remember, but does this ever happen? It will not stop us returning however.
The staff are just great and even arranged a power failure on our first night as we sat down to dinner, just so we could have a romantic dinner by candle-light, and they kept it off so we could go to bed with the candles flickering all around the room. If only I was 40 years younger I'm sure I would have appreciated it more.
We managed to visit our friends up the road in the Fuji shop (where there is a new baby to follow the marriage of our last trip) and we saw the beautiful Arniati across the road in the Pacung Mountain Resort.
We also visited the still-under-construction infamous Cracker Bar and Grill at the Bedugul Markets and hope that the trophy we left will remain un-eaten long enough to be mounted on the wall with the other honourable items in the collection. Herself thinks we should return with a gold plated one next year but I think it would be too difficult to digest. We look forward to christening the dunnies on our next trip also. We think they will be a most welcome relief in the neighbourhood.
Most of the Bedugul market sellers came out to see us off, especially Higher Authority who they look on as some sort of god from the treasury printery I think.
It's the turn of the Ubud Markets to suffer the onslaught now.