Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Bali Day 2 - Lovina

After enjoying the best buffet breakfast in town, our journey to Lovina began.

Deva said it would be a half day journey and to make the long journey interesting, we stopped by few places and the first stop was a textile shop and where we found this beautiful backyard.

We bought nothing there.

Along the way, we saw some students who were wearing earth colored school uniform were walking happily home. Looked like they just came back from school cleanup. The students must be enjoying studying as their school days are 6 days a week. See the hair, it was classic.
The first temple we visited was Besakih Temple which perched on the slopes of Mount Agung.
Our tour guide Deva changed his attire to more formal in order to enter the temple with respect.




There are many Balinese good in doing cat walk on the street especially the lady.
To walk up the temple one needs to have good stamina as it was steep all the way up ~500m.

This temple was built in the 5th century by a monk coming from the east and during that time there was no temples in Bali. This temple was built based on 5 different metals: gold, silver, copper, iron and the combination of all. These metals are found in different direction (North East South West Central). We were not allowed to enter the temples as it is dedicated for the worshippers.

After we came down from the temple we went for our lunch in Restaurant Gong Devata with the view of a living volcano called Mt.Batur. We were told by the guide in order to climb out the volcano need 2 hours to go up and 3 hours to come down and what that's mean you need at least a day to do this.

Aditya Beach Resort Sunset
In the evening we went for the Restaurant Grilled Seafood Ranggon Sunset. The seafood was nice, she liked the fish and also the lady singer who could sing in English and Indonesia song. Luckily we applied the mosquitoes repellent stick and mosquitoes free for the entire night.

The result of forgetting to bring sunblock.

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