2 posts tagged “menjangan island”
Day 1 – 15 July 2009
Arrive to the hotel (Kuta or Legian) Street photography around the hotel, Chit chat bout photography, share our knowledge and discuss about the program. Exploring the sunset kissing the sea around the hotel (Kuta & Legian area).
Accommodation: Jayakarta Hotel
Day 2 – 16 July 2009
Capturing wonderful beaches shots of scenery in Candidasa then we will go to the Water Palace or Tirta Gangga as is called. And we will have dinner at Legian.
Accommodation: Jayakarta Hotel
Day 3 – 17 July 2009
At this day, we can start our activity a little bit later. In the morning, we can take the beach scene around the hotel. We will go to take a lunch at Warung Made before continuing our trip to Besakih Temple. After, I’m sure we won’t miss the great sunset kissing the wave in Tanah Lot. Then having dinner at Discovery mall will be our option to close this day.
Accommodation: Jayakarta Hotel
Day 4 – 18 July 2009
Enjoying the entertainment of traditional dance in Bali (Batu Bulan – 9.30 am for 1 hour) & seeing the rice fields in Ubud. Enjoying lunch in the famous restaurant in Ubud at Bebek
Bengil restaurant. Take the picture of the great temple at Tampak Siring (Tirta Empul). This evening we going to enjoying our dinner at Jimbaran.
Accommodation: Jayakarta Hotel
8 am local time starts from the hotel
Day 5 – 19 July 2009
This day we will go to Elephant Cave located in Giayar not to far from rice field in Ubud. After we will going to Uluwatu to take a picture of beautiful cliff with wonderful view. This evening we will have dinner at Kuta.
Accommodation: Jayakarta Hotel
Day 6 – 20 July 2009
Taking natures photos in West Bali. We are going to stop in a wonderful spot where you can choose from all types of nature on the island of Bali to shoot. Would you like to go jungle trekking or discover the beauty of all the sea life around Bali by diving or snorkeling in Menjangan Island? Well we will if you like.
Accommodation: Aditya Resort or Melka Excelsior – Lovina
7 am local time starts from the hotel
Day 7 – 21 July 2009
Creating pictures of nature in their natural habitat isn’t easy. You will be challenge to take the photos of the dolphins from the boat in the middle of the sea in a traditional fishing boat. Then we will go to the Git Git waterfall so you can see the life giving water. After that we are going to enjoy the beauty of Buyan Lake and enjoying the panorama views of Bedugul Lake. Before resting our mind and share the stories of the day in Sanur.
Accommodation: Laghawa Beach inn or Ari Putri in Sanur
Day 8 – 22 July 2009
On our last day we are going to take in the sunrise on Sanur beach and discovering how life in Bali truly is. We will take to the streets for photography of ordinary life near the hotel.
5.30 am local time start to take shot of sunrise.
Please contact baligoddessisland@yahoo.com for any further question and more information bout this trip (such as the price of the trip etc).
See you there…
Bali Goddess Island traveled to Bali once more with a group of people from July 26 thru 30th and it was defiantly adventurous tour group that came this time. Even thou the tour are just for four days it was quite different than the other tours we have taken our tour groups on.
We arrived in Bali at Ngurah Rai Airport on Saturday about 1 p.m. local Bali time and seeing as our next destination was a 3 hours journey from the city center and the airport we decided to take our lunch in one of the restaurant at Discovery Mall in Jalan Kartika plaza. After we finished our lunch we were ready to start our journey, but we caught the aroma of fresh baked bread so we stop by the Bread Talk store to buy some bread and then pop next door to Galael candy store to buy some water taffy and other yummy candy’s, now we were ready for the trip.
This time, the journey was feeling really far because we met several traffic jams on the way. And seeing at it was a holiday season we expected to see several religious celebrations along the way but we unfortunately got stuck in some places but it wasn’t to bad and just made getting to our first stop in Lovina all that much more exciting. We arrived in Lovina at about 6 p.m. and checking in to Melka Excelsior Hotel which is just about 5 minutes walk from the beach. That night we didn’t really go anywhere, we just went to the beach to take some photos then back to the hotel where we had a wonderful dinner. The tour group was anxious for the next day because we plan to see the dolphin’s that live nearby out at sea, and dolphin sightseeing normally starts early in the morning about 5.30 am.
The 2nd day, we woke up early morning and prepared for spending the day with the dolphins in the middle of the ocean. When we headed down to Lovina beach and rented a boat to go play with the dolphins but the only boat available to us can only be used by a maximum 5 people at a time, and on this tour group there were 24 people. Lucky for us I knew the people who rented the boats having working with them in the past and we all got out that day to see the dolphins. Except for us, there were a lot of people waiting in line to go dolphin sightseeing. In Lovina seeing the wild dolphins in their natural environment is the main attraction and my tour group was so pleased I booked the boat from our hotel to see this dolphin on the sea. There are a lot of people and companies offering this dolphin show outside the hotel and they offer very competitive prices and some were lower than what hotel offer, but not all are experienced at piloting a boat so I pick a group that I know and trust and could insure the group’s safety.
I never realized it before but you need a lot of passion for the animal just to go and see them. After all they are wild creatures in the natural environment and we can’t expect them to give us the show like what you can see at a SeaWorld or a big aquarium. The trip was from 6.30 am when we started to sail out and meet them and we finished the sightseeing trip about 9 am. There had to be more than 30 boats out there with us and one of the guides explained their behavior to us like this. Dolphin love to come out and play in the warm early morning temperature, so if the sun is already high and it’s already really hot, it will be less likely to see the dolphin’s in their environment.
After we chased the dolphins out on the sea, we went back to the hotel to have some breakfast. Unfortunately, the breakfast wasn’t so good, there weren’t many choices for a good breakfast buffet and some of them were already all gone.
After breakfast, we continue our journey to West Bali….one of the best place in Bali for snorkeling and jungle trekking. We stayed at the Mimpi Menjangan Resort which has really beautiful and well done landscaping at the resort, it’s very tranquil place to stay. If you hope for the fast pace of a big city Bali is not the right place for you, coz this place will offer you the calm and peaceful atmosphere you can expect from the paradise island of Bali.
After we checked in to the hotel, we went to rent a boat to
go snorkeling around the Menjangan
Island. This island is
approximately about 30 minute’s journey by boat from the main island. This was the 1st time I had ever
been to the island so I was just as excited to go as my tour group. I was so
impressed with the panoramic view of this island, it was truly splendid. We
spent a lot of our snorkeling time discovering and exploring the coral reefs
around this island with a local reliable tour guide who specializes in
snorkeling around coral reefs. It was really an incredible experience I have
had in my life. Around 5 pm we headed back to the hotel with the many great
memories of the things we saw under the water in our minds. We had dinner in
the hotel restaurant because we couldn’t find any restaurant nearby still open
or had a short waiting to get in and we were hungry. So the only one choice was
just to eat at the hotel or like some of the group just went to the store and
took it back to their rooms to relax and snack.
The 3rd day we woke up very really early at 4 am, mostly because we need to send some of our guest in the group to the airport to catch the flight at 11 am and the distance from our hotel to the airport is about a 3 hours journey. On the way to the airport, we made stop over in some places just to take snap shot or two of the views around us.
We reached airport early with plenty of time to spare, but not enough sleep yet and we still had a full day of activities for Ragil and I. We went and picked up some coffee at Starbuck at the airport to jump start us. After that we checked in again to the hotel in Kuta (Kuta Lagoon Hotel) then that we went to Pasar Sukowati to buy some souvenirs to bring to UK then back again to the hotel just to spent time out by swimming pool in the hotel. We were so tired we just had diner outside and went to bed early to bet enough rest to prepare to explore Bali the next day.
On the 4th day we rented motorbike from Pak Putu, that’s a automatic scooter which is really suitable for the women. This time was the 1st time for us to discover Bali by scooter, and it was really fun. We had no real or exact destination; we just hit the road and stopped where ever we felt to have some drinks and just to have lunch. For lunch, we finally choose a place called Warung Italia, a nice place and quite affordable food prices. I recommend this place for the tourist who stays for quite sometime in Bali. It’s the perfect place to have a good meal at a good price.
At around 4 pm we met our Flicker friends group in Bali, by the way for those who don’t know Flicker is an online photo sharing site where I post some of my photography work. Our group had a gathering at the double six beach, were we took some photos. After the sun went down, our friends invited us to visit one of their friends home. They are really nice people and we had dinner there and we had really wonderful time.
We got back to the hotel at 9 pm and prepared to have long night from one club to another having fun dancing the night away. This time we tried new club The Living Room. But this club didn’t really live up to our expectation. So then we went to a night club called Déjà vu were we danced till 4 am. We had a blast and recommend it to people if they want to try it. We then headed back to the hotel to crash and sleep.
After very long night of fun we woke up really late and at around 10 am thanks to the phone call from Pak Putu. Lucky we already finished packing from the day before and we just have enough time to take in a fast breakfast and a shower then hurry to the airport to catch our flight with Mandala airline.
Our wonderful time in Bali was finished and we have plenty of memories and pictures of our trip. We just hope that one day we can back again to Bali….to meet the people there…to discover new things…and to experience more.
