BALI

Special thanks to this girl for sending me to the airport at 3am!!! And for coming to the airport at 1.30am to pick me up when i landed :') I was so touched because these gestures mean a lot to me. She definitely set the friendship bar really high haha

First trip ever with my uni girls~

"DAY 1"

Our flight was at 4.55am so we touched down in Bali at about 7am-ish. I didn't sleep the whole night and barely slept on the plane so i was really shag. The moment we stepped out of the airport, we were approached by a lot of drivers. We finally settled on one and he brought us to get our SIM card before going to our villa. We paid Rrp 200,000 for 11GB of 4G data.

Finally found our villa but we couldn't check in cos it was too early so we deposited our luggage there and went to explore Seminyak. Walked along the stretch and finally settled our brunch at this place called Ize Seminyak. It's actually a hotel but we had our brunch at their restaurant.

The food was pretty good! And i only paid $12 for a burger and a drink hehe. One thing i love about Bali is the readily cheap and delicious food. To be honest, I'm quite surprised by the standards of the restaurants and cafes there. Most of the food we had was really good for the price we paid.

Shopped around for a bit before we headed back to the villa to wash up while waiting for our floats to come. In the meantime, Ju and i KO-ed on our bed hahaha.

I chose a pretzel float cos i wanted to lie down but it wasn't as comfortable as it seemed lol. The girls were all struggling on our float, trying to pose and look pretty but it was damn tough hahaha. Salute those girls who can work it and make it look damn effortless.

Dinner was at this restaurant called Rumours. Food at Rumours was really good~ I ordered a chicken cordon bleu and it was delish hehe. I dont remember how much i paid but i think it was about $11 for my chicken and a glass of banana smoothie.

We wanted to go to a bar along Seminyak Beach but somehow we didn't manage to find one that we wanted so we just strolled along the beach and went back to our villa to drink.

"DAY 2 - Watersports Day"

We asked our driver from the airport to send us around today and paid Rrp 600,000 to book his cab for the whole day. Thought it was pretty reasonable since we were planning to go a few places but we realized that the best way to travel in Bali is through Grab Car. The difference in the fare can be about half sometimes. So if you're heading to Bali, just use Grab.

Our first stop is Tanjung Benoa Beach cos we be doin' watersports hehe. I've been looking forward to watersports cos if you know me, i live for thrills and adventures. I just love the feeling of adrenaline rush.

We decided to play Flying Fish and Big Marble aka donut. We ditched snorkeling because the lady assisting us said that the water was murky so she didn't want us to waste our money haha. My favourite out of the 2 has definitely got to be the Big Marble.

This is how it looks like

Initially, it was going really slow and i legit felt damn sleepy and a bit sian cos waste money. After that, we asked him to speed up and boy, it was so much fun!!! We were literally being flung around, especially Claire cos she's too light. So much thrill playing this *thumbs up emoji*

The next stop was Jimbaran Beach. Settled at the random restaurant to have late lunch first cos we were starving. I don't bother to take down the name of the restaurant cos the food was pretty meh. The only saving grace was the view cos we sat along the beach and witnessed the sun setting.

After eating, we moved on to the other side of Jimbaran Bay to search for Lia Cafe for their seafood dinner. Lol yes, we had dinner immediately after our lunch wtf.

Dinner by the beach again and the sunset was too pretty 

Pretty satisfied with our dinner. We had lobsters, crabs, mussels and prawns in our seafood platter. The set also came with soup, salad, a plate of kangkong and 2 bottles of bintang beer. One set is Rrp 600,000 and we ordered 2 sets to share. So we paid about $30 per pax.

We wanted to go to Kuta beach after this but it was too late so we headed back to our villa to chill. Another thing i love about Bali is the chill vibes everywhereeeee. Almost every night we would sit by the pool, have some alcohol and snacks and just talk about everything under the sky full of stars.

"DAY 3 - Uluwatu Temple"

Lunch was at The Bistrot. We decided on this place because it looks so gorgeous from the outside and the interior is even more beautiful! We found out that people actually hosted their wedding reception here. I mean who wouldn't? It's really a nice change from the usual hotel reception.

After a really filling lunch (I had pork ribs and omg it was so good), we went to Uluwatu Temple.

The monkeys at Uluwatu Temple were really aggressive and not even scared of humans wtf. One of them dived right in and snatched a furry ball keychain from Claire's bag. It was quite scary tbh. While it was happening, another monkey tried to do the same to me but thank god i've fast reflexes hahaha. I turned immediately and faster kept my keychain inside my bag. They damn naughty lah omg.

We headed to Kuta Beach to chill thereafter.

None of us liked Kuta Beach because

1) it was super crowded 

2) every few min, someone would approach you to buy stuff from them. 

It was really annoying cos we just wanna lie down, chill and do our own things without being interrupted. Since i'm talking about what i don't like about this trip, it's worth noting that we got catcalled A LOT here. Idk is it because we are all girls or what but it was pretty darn annoying. 

Some of the comments we encountered were:

"Hey sexy girls"

"Hello, you want boyfriend?"

"Hello, you want massage? (coming from someone working at a restaurant wtf)"

Also, i feel like they were raping us mentally because they always stare at us so intently wtf. So perhaps it's not a good idea to come here without guys in the group. Other than those inappropriate comments, we also got wolf-whistled a lot.

 Caught the sunset again. The sunset here is really so pretty omg

Anyway, we were just chilling on kuta beach, people-watching, when this Korean oppa approached us for a picture hahaha. When he first asked me i was like whut.... but my friends think that he's cute so we agreed on a picture HAHA.

The girls wanted to shisha so we went to this place called The Shisha Cafe. Apparently, shisha was quite uncommon here so it was pretty hard to find. We walked about 30-45mins before we finally found the place wtf. I also don't know why we didn't take grabcar there leh haha.

Went back to our villa at around 12am, washed up a bit and started preparing for our AM trek up Mount Batur hehe. We booked the guide and it included pick up, breakfast and whatever we needed for the trek. Our pick up was at 2am because they were also picking up other people along the way.

"Day 4 - Mount Batur"

Officially started trekking at around 4am. I was so excited because it's my first time climbing a mountain and i'm gonna do it in the dark... say whut? It was really exhausting but i would definitely do it again in a heartbeat. Thought i should mention that i paid around SGD$65 for this.

Look at the gorgeous sunrise!!!

I wanted to vlog on the way up but everything was done in a rush and the trek up wasn't easy but i managed to snapchat on my way up and down haha. I'm gonna include snippets of my snapchat in my vlog so wait for that hehe.

Thank you Claire for being my adventure buddy~

This girl had a harder time than most people because she had to clamber over the boulders with her small build but i'm so proud of us for conquering this hehe

Took a bunch of photos and it was time to trek down. If you think trekking up is the hardest part, think again lol. Trekking down was, no doubt, faster but it was more dangerous because there were a lot of small rocks and many people actually slipped and fell on their way down.

With the whole group! 

So glad we managed to make some friends during this trip. One thing i love about traveling is meeting new people. The Lebanese couple on the left was an absolute delight. The guy was so kind and helpful and was constantly on the lookout for both of us. We also shared our travel knowledge and got to broaden our knowledge about each other's cultures. Not to mention, the Indian guy on the right was also really nice. We had so much fun chatting with everyone.

By the time we were done with everything, it was already 12+ and the girls checked out for us already so Claire and I could only wipe ourselves with wet wipes. I know it's pretty gross but there wasn't anything we could do haha. Met the rest and we had lunch at Made's Warung. We've been eating western and Italian food in Bali so i was glad to finally taste some authentic Indonesian food! 

Ordered Nasi Campur and it was so damn good?! To be honest i don't even know what i was putting into my mouth but i assure you every bite was delightful. I think this only cost SGD$4.30 and the portion was huge.

Went shopping for a while before heading to Ultimo restaurant for one last dinner in Bali.

I don't want to nitpick but the food here was crap.... We were really disappointed with it :( The ambiance was 10/10 though.

That concludes my Bali trip with the girls. I was so bummed to leave this place because i feel like i haven't done a lot of things and there are still many places that were unexplored. So i'll definitely be back for more! I'll upload the vlog in the next post, followed by my birthday trip to Taiwan :)