Bali, Indonesia...Day 6...

This was the beach day, and we planned to cover some of the South Bali beaches. We started after having breakfast from the hotel, and we proceeded to Balangan beach. It was a nice beach, with a good stretch of coast. However, the beach was not a swimming beach as it had a lot of waves. However, again, we felt like we were in a private beach as there were very few in the beach. I had a nice time trying to break the waves. ;)

After changing, we went to dreamland beach. More than a beach, it was a “resort’ish” area. It was more or less, a 5 star place with a great beach. We decided not to get wet there, but I was so much tempted by the green waters and the nice waves there. There were some cliffs on the coast, we walked across the coast, and got tired by the scorching sun. After an hour or so, we decided to move on.

We decided to drive and move to a more secluded beach, Impossible beach, but could not find it. After few more minutes of driving, we decided to skip it and move to Padang Padang beach. This was a beach I discovered while reading a blog, and I thought it will be a nice private little beach. The trek down to the beach was good, where we had to get down in between rocks to reach there. However, when we reached there, it was a very small strip of coast, full of shops and tourists. We dint even have the place to stand there properly. We spent only little time over there, and climbed the way up to the next beach.

After Padang Padang, on the way to Uluwatu, we saw a nice little restaurant. It was on the first floor, and had a view of the Andaman Sea. Even if we dint have a private beach experience earlier, we had a private lunch experience. We were the only 2 in the restaurant, and we had lots and lots of food, and ironically it was our first “lunch” in Bali, as we had decided to skip the lunch for the 1^st 5 days due to time constraints, and we usually feel full when we see something amazing. J

After the lunch, we drove across to Sulaban beach. This was an amazing beach with very little shore, and there were cliffs all around. It was my first experience in a beach of that kind. The waves were not too friendly, but the views and the water were crystal clear. I again got down in the water; Kirti preferred to stay on shore and walk around and see the different views. After half an hour or so, I felt lonely, came back, changed and we decided to go to Uluwatu temple.

Uluwatu temple, another majestic temple facing the Indian Ocean, is again truly the only one of its kind. A beautiful Balinese temple, standing tall on a cliff, is definitely worth a visit in Bali. There were some aggressive monkeys here, and one of them was aggressive enough to grab Kirti’s earring stud. We walked around, saw the splendid view of the ocean, various geographical forms like arches created by the sea, and walked across to take the ticket for Kecak fire dance. The dance started by 6pm, we took a seat from where we could get a good view of the dance, as well as enjoy the sunset in the backdrop. About the dance, I have written in another blog which covers Bali dances. In short, it was a good experience, with a majestic sunset.

Now, how do you describe this viewpoint!!!













A view of Uluwatu temple...majestic, facing the ocean!













Kecak and Fire dance...depicted story of Ramayana...















Sunset at the backdrop... :)










With the real hero of Bali's Ramayana - Hanuman. :)

After the dance, we drove back to the hotel, freshened up and were ready to get a tinge of Kuta nightlife. We decided to visit Kuta, drove and parked the vehicle somewhere. We walked, was met by a stranger on the road, who offered us Hashish and Marijuana, which we kindly rejected. We walked to Kuta beach, sat there for around 15-20 minutes, walked across; saw some pubs which hosted a variety of “dances”. Not in a mood to enjoy those, we kept walking, until we got tired, then turned back and walked towards Mc Donalds, had an ice cream from there and drove back to the hotel.

Kuta at night...