JB yesterday.
Flight over with Jetstar was good and no great drama getting out of airport other than JS did not have paperwork to give us so we had a mad scramble to find all paperwork once we landed. I would hate to have been a first timer trying to work out what I needed and worse wtill where to find it, what it looked like and then what to do with it.
Bali was hot and no rain. Rate went from 9100 to 8900.Stayed at KP, new section, love it. Did Tegalalong? one day and must admit that I was very disappointed. It seemed to me that it was just a selection of little shops with very few selling anything I had not seen before and the prices were in some cases no better than Kuta/legian/seminyak and, unless you pre-ordered, you could not buy anything. Ate in Ubud and that was crawling with tourists as it always is.
Did the Dolphins and that was amazing. Thank you to those on the forum who put me in touch with Putu who got us in when the company said it was fully booked - although the company did contact me later with a cancellation but we were in alreday. Went to Sanur after as some had never been there and I have not been for many years and it is way to quiet for me but the beach is tranquil and pretty.
Ketuts was ridiculously busy in the mornings and I recommend going in the afternoons when it is quiet. Her stock is not keeping pace with what the other markets have and we did find the ones in the markets closer to LBH much easier to negotiate with this time.
the girls were buying Vans for 100k and then the same guy would not match that price and we were buying basketball singlets for 100k but some are small in the arms and some are gaping so if you have the opportunity to try them and measure them I would recommend it. My son is pretty happy with his and cannot believe the quality compared with the real one he bought in LA for mega bucks!
Traffic was extremely bad with the roadworks and the ASEAN summit. Went to Unagi and tried various differernt ways to get there and I was really diapppointed with it. I much prefer Geneva and so did some of my friends but the others thought Unagi was better? It was the first time I have seen the haol and we were all a bit taken aback with how it is just there in the middle of everything. I hope that boy does not end up there and our hearts go out to his parents.
Ate locally. My mie goreng at Mozzarella by the sea was disgusting. Must have been sitting there for hrs. It was my first dinner in Bali so I was so disappointed.
Went to the Rock Bar. Got there early and got el primo position. Needed brollies for the sun but we also needed it for the huge spray which was so funny. The staff wanted us to move but we wanted to stay. It was Aus prices but no table min so not too bad. We had a driver so we then went to Jimbaran Bay for dinner. All in all a 100$ night for driver, dinner and rock bar but that was nothing compared to what the whole thing would cost at home so good value.
One of our party got sick so we gave her some local medicine which worked pretty quickly. She lost a day but was raring to go the next so the medicine was pretty good.