After the Pura Taman Ayun, we went for our second destination – Pura Tanah Lot. It took us about an hour to reach there.
We felt a bit hungry and we asked our driver Yandi to stop somewhere to have a light meal.
On our way, we saw a stall at the roadside selling Babi Guling. We felt as we would like to try some. So, we just had our meals.
This was the first time we officially trying the Babi Guling. It is the combination of crispy pork skins, pork sausages, pork meats cooked in spices, blanched kangkong and eat together with the white rice. The chili sauce or sambal really spicy. We like it!
We passed by a village and we noticed that there were men and women bringing their children in their best praying dress and attires to attend the special ritual ceremony in the village temple.
That made the journey a bit slow and the road jammed a bit due to that.
At around 3.30pm we arrived at Tanah Lot. After we got our entrance ticket, we walked down a busy street lined with restaurants and souvenir vendors, towards the ocean.
There is a saying that one has not consider visited Bali without visiting Tanah Lot, this showed that how this temple placed a significant spiritual role or spot in Bali.
Propped proudly amidst the crashing waves was a remarkable rock formation, home to the famous pilgrimage temple, Pura Tanah Lot (meaning “Land in the Sea”). It is believed to date back to the 16th century.
The temple forms an integral part of Balinese mythology and is one of the seven sea temples around the Balinese coast.
Each of the sea temples was established within a direct line of sight of the next to form a chain along the south-western seaboard.
During high tide the rock formation is completely surrounded by water, making it a photographer’s dream location.
It was low tide when we arrived, as we can see many visitors were flooding here, and many of them were from China.
Priests were at the temple to bless those who gave a donation for a good cause.
We refrained from taking a closer look and opted to walk to the nearby lookout rock, which offered picturesque panoramic views of Tanah Lot.
Our sunset tour wasn’t quite as expected. We arrived at Tanah Lot ahead of schedule around 3.30pm and sunset wasn’t going to occur until at least 6pm. We just sitting at the garden facing the Indian Ocean and enjoy the breeze.
We had no desire to spend more hours waiting for sunset with tired children, so we skipped this glorious sight, but we love to return and see it another time.
After a long day, the drive home was the perfect opportunity to take a little nap, which also happens to be the best part about organised tour transport.
Once you have taken your fill of activity and sightseeing you can sit back and relax while someone else takes care of driving and navigation.
We reached our hotel around 7.00pm. It took almost 2 hours!
We were really tired, we took our bath, and walked out for our dinner again.
This time around, we choose to dine at one of the open restaurant and I forgot the restaurant name again. It is actually with the hotel or villa stay at the back of the hotel.
As usual, Annabelle’s all time favourite Pizza, Issac’s would be having burger, Green Curry with steamed rice for myself and Daddy was having a Bee Hoon Soup. And, that sums up our day.
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