I landed back in Alice on Saturday, so this is just a quick JBR. The purpose of the trip was 16 nights of a bit of R & R after our 10 days in Thailand. On this trip there was me (been to Bali many times) and Shaz (first Timer).
Places we stayed:
-Sanur Beach Villas: Love this place, great / comfortable rooms, great pool, cold booze and great people to share it with. We had 5 nights.
-Temple Cafe & Seaside Cottages, Candi Dasa: This is my favourite place in Bali. Room 3b has the best views of the water, with comfy bed and great bathrooms, very relaxing place to stay if you want to get away from the hustle and bustle. We had 5 nights.
-Tegal Sari, Ubud: Staying a wooden room for 6 nights was great, didn't go very far from th pool or the room.
Places we ate:
-Kesuma, Sanur: What can I say, Best feed of fish. We ate here for lunch and tea for our 5 nights in Sanur. I know people will say 'variety is the spice of life' well I'll stick to the old morteen ad 'when your on a good thing, stick to it'
-Temple Cafe, Candi Dasa: good food at reasonable prices, we ate most of the time in Candi Dasa.
-White sand beach, Candi Dasa: one of the little warungs does a great meal of grilled fish/rice/veggies. Very nice food at VERY good prices.
-Vincents, Candi Dasa: What can I say, we only ate here once, but as always it was outstanding. Shaz and I both had steak.
-Pizza Bagus, Ubud: Ate here a bit, very nice pizza.
-Tropical Bale, Ubud: We ate here as part of the all day spa at Bali Botanica, the food was very nice.
-Pundi Pundi, Ubud: just up the road from the Tegal Sari, great salads, all other food was not to bad.
-Dirty Duck, Ubud: this place is one of my must do, crispy fried duck, mmmmnn yummy.
Things we did:
-Bali Botanica Day Spa, Ubud: All day spa, it was very hard work being rubbed and scrubbed all day.
-Smoked Duck Cooking class, Casa Luna Ubud: A Sunday night course, very good and the duck tastes great.
-A few trips in a boat up to white sand beach and snorkelling at Blue Lagoon, Candi Dasa, and a day trip up to Amed for a swim and lunch at Anda Amed.
-Melasti Spa, Legian: for a refill, my nails weren't going to last another week until I got home. Pusna did a great job.
-Got my tattoo finished at Ibud Tattoo, Legian.
Most of our time was spent lazing around a pool, as I said this trip was for a bit f R & R and that's what we did. Shaz being a first timer, luved it. Had a great time. She said she is going to go back next year and take hubby. I will definitely go back, last night I got on the computer and booked a trip for next May, my excuse is it is a pre-run for my 40 th, which I am having in Candi Dasa next Dec.
Cheers Janette