Hello Thursday! The first #ThrowbackThursday post is here.
This post has been in my draft for far too long. *my bad* :sigh: So, this is story about my honeymoon – it’s just two years ago, not too old, yes? 😀
Please enjoy!
It is a story of our first day in Bali. As I stated in this post, we chose to wake (as) early (as possible for our tired bodies – 8 am is still considered early for a honeymoon morning, right?). The rental car was delivered after breakfast, and off we went to Ubud around 10 am. My husband is the one in charge of driving while I navigate him with GMaps in hand.
Pecatu to Ubud was not a short journey; it took almost 2 hours to reach our first destination: Bebek Tepi Sawah Restaurant. The restaurant itself was in a very large compound with a real paddy field as the view (before this time, I ate in Bebek Tepi Sawah outlet in a mall: to see a real one was joyful) – even if the paddy field was in planting season.
We ordered our favorite: crispy duck with plecing kangkung and some infused water (+ iced tea for my husband). I couldn’t remember the other side dishes that we ordered, but I do remember how full our stomachs were. They cost us around $50 (around Rp 500.000 – the exchange rates were not as high as now).
With our full stomachs, we drove around Ubud, enjoying the green of its forest. We went to Monkey Forest but only till its gate: took videos of monkeys and then off to Tanah Lot.
Gmaps was very useful in our trip, since we had no knowledge of the route. I have to warn you, tho, Gmaps gave us the shortest routes, of course, but by the shortest I mean they really were shortcuts that made us take a very small road, even the one in the middle of a paddy field or small village. Thank God that our car was a small one!
I remember vaguely that our trip from Ubud to Tanah Lot took around 30-45 minutes. We arrived around 4.30 pm and my husband really loved the view. He took many pictures, and I told him about the giant snake – he had to see the snake alone, since I am not a fan of snakes. I have visited Tanah Lot before in one of my work trips, so I was kinda noisy telling him where I had been when I was there with my friends.
We heard an announcement about the Sunset with Kecak Dance, and that was so appealing, but we both weren’t enjoying the crowd in Tanah Lot. We remember being told about the beauty of Echo Beach and how serene the beach is: off we go to Echo Beach, which luckily only took around 15 minutes.
Rather traumatized by the Gmaps’ routes, we asked local people how to get to Echo Beach to catch the sunset, and we liked the answer they gave. We were in time to see the beautiful sunset at Echo Beach.
We didn’t stay long at Echo Beach. We were going to spend the night in the Kuta Area, since that was my husband’s first visit to Bali, Kuta was a must-visit place. By the time we got to Kuta, our stomachs were growling, but we needed to take some pictures first so we could enjoy dinner. 😆
…and we went to Wendy’s for dinner! 😆
See you on the honeymoon post #3!
Love,
the daRk Jasmine
The DarkJasmine 