Well, today is the day that we take off for our yearly family trip! We booked our flight tickets from Air Asia during September, so it is not a cheap or sales seasons during we booked the tickets.
Every year it is like a family tradition that we would travel during Issac’s birthday, ever since last year we were at Cebu performing our sealing ordinances at the Cebu Temple, Philippines. This year too, we are thinking the same: make it an annual family trip.
Initially we were looking for Lombok and eyeing on the Mount. Rinjani.
After we found out that the difficulties to climb that mountain with our own ‘stamina’ and bringing the kids together, we shifted our destination to Bali instead.
As we heard from our colleagues that, Bali is a real fun and relax place for family vacation.
We did a little bit of research on the internet on where to sleep, eat, do and see; contact recommended driver and guides and negotiating on the price, thus we have plan out our itinerary for our 8 days vacation there.
Due to budget wise, we took the last flight. Some how there was a cancelled flight from Air Asia, thus we were allow to choose different flight on the same day.
There were earlier flight morning 10am something but only left 4 seats, I was guessing it would be quite difficult for us as a family to be seated together; other than that there is afternoon flight 4.20pm and 6.30pm something.
Both of Daddy and Mummy discussed, we decided to choose for the 4pm something flight, it would be not too late for us to check in to our hotel in Bali for the first night.
Here we were arriving at the Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport. Once we stepped into the Arrival Hall, it does surprise us with the new and modern design of the airport.
We do agreed that this international airport are much much more modern than the Cebu Mactan Island International Airport which we visited last year.
We are a bit worried initially if the immigration would took long queue. We were so lucky that we do not need to wait long and passed through the custom. It was not long for us to pick up for our checked-in luggage.
We took a cab to our hotel which booked through Agoda – CT1 Bed & Breakfast Hotel located at Tuban. It costs us around Rp.125,000.
At first, it was quite a surprise to us to find out that the hotel which we booked is a bit different from the website photos.
Or may be it is because we were all hungry and tired. We check-in to our room and took a shower. We walked out from our Hotel and looking for our dinner.
We stopped by a local warung Coto Makassar at Jalan Raya Kuta that’s looks ok to us and we would like to have some local food.
We looked at the menu not much. We were asking the lady what is their specialty but it seems like she cannot understand our Bahasa Melayu.
We ordered a Soup Saudara (Rp.25,000), Ikan Bakar (Rp.70,000), Mie Kering Makasar (Rp.25,000) with 2 Nasi Putih (2xRp.6,000) just to share among 4 of us.
As for the drinks, we ordered 2 Kelapa Muda (2xRP18,000), Es. Teller (Rp.15,000) and a funny drink called Soda Gembira (Rp.18,000)!
Later that I know that this Coto Makassar is run by a family from Makassar in Sulawesi and they serve the best specialties of Sulawesi traditional dishes. The dishes served are ok and quick service.
After the meal, we walked to the convenient store to buy some mineral waters and bathing shampoo. We returned to our hotel to rest.
After the dinner, Annabelle looked more happier as firstly she saw the condition of the hotel we stayed, I guessed she was hungry that time.
Really a tired day for us, but all of us were so excited to begin our Bali holiday!
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