R&R in Bali

I just came back from a weekend in Bali.. I was there from Saturday until yesterday (Monday).. I thought I had to cancel this trip, but luckily I didn't and it turned out to be a nice rest & relax trip for me.

My aunt, who's an expat staying in Bali currently, has already checked into Ubud Hanging Garden. I was picked up from the airport almost 2 hours late, apparently due to miscommunication between the front office people and the driver. But, I got there finally and decided not to tip the driver for his lateness. The view from the room was so breathtakingly beautiful that I felt calm and relaxed right away. That very day, we had spa session after tea and dinner after spa.. The spa experience was just okay.. Dinner was great!

View from our room, a pura (temple)

Ubud Hanging Garden

More pictures here

After breakfast and some tarot card reading session the next day, we checked out and made our way to an organic restaurant called Sari Organic, located in Ubud. We had to park our car by the main road and walked all the way through the paddy field about 1 km one way to get to the restaurant. It was hot! but the scenery was to die for and I really didn't mind walking... (They provide motorcycle pick up service). I had organic brown rice fried with soya tofu.. It was delicious! After lunch, I did power shopping at Sukawati and came back with 10 beach dresses, some souvenirs, a traditional Balinese drum for Bo, a painting and some woven jewelry boxes. All for less than two million Rupiah.

The next morning, we went to Bvlgari Resort in Uluwatu just for breakfast and spa visit. My aunt's friend, who's also a Spa Director in Los Cabos wanted to see how it looks like since they are using the same products. The food was ok but all of us agreed that the use of so many black colors in the resort made it look depressing.. And the service was under expectation... We werenot impressed!

The Bvlgari Villas

After breakfast, I was dropped at the airport for my flight home... I had time to shop at the duty free and that's exactly what I did but the I still had some spare rupiah.. which all went to the charity pouch MAS was giving out in the name of Mercy Malaysia.