Bali- 'Transport ladyboy?'

For our second last day in Bali we decided to go and get ourselves a nice cheap massage in the morning. This was all going well until the women who started to massage me swoped with the man, next thing I knew he was straddling me! That was a bit of a shock to the system, a little Indonesian man sat on my bum! After I came to terms with it, it was actually a good massage and I only paid £2 for half an hour!

We then spent the rest of the day by the hotel pool, and wondered round the shops. The shopping here is really good, but not as cheap as you would hope for! When your on a budget window shopping was the better option. 

As we were wondering more to the edge of the town you stumbled across a little market, where you can bargain to get everything so cheap, it had some really cool stuff. However you did realise you were coming into the market zone when a taxi driver shouted at us 'you want transport ladyboys!' I thought I just heard him wrong, apparently not, not only do we stand out to the Indonesian people they also thought we were ladyboys! 

Bali- Beaches and Celebrations

So we arranged earlier in the week to have a driver pick us up at 9 in the morning in order to spend half a day going to different beaches, and to fit in some water sports, a temple and lunch. 

Out first stop was the water sports beach... 

Expectations: arrive at a beautiful long sandy beach have a wonder along, paddle in the sea and have a look at the options for water sports, it would all depend on the price. 

Reality: greeted at the car door and taken to a resturant type place, sat and shown all the options for water sports and prices, basically pressured into picking something straight away! Luckily we could barter the price down for the 3 of us to do the doughnuts! Next thing we knew we were sat on a doughnut in the sea looking back at this smaller, kind of dirty beach (There is a lot of rubbish in Bali). 

I am however very glad that we needed up ok these doughnuts just to witness Lara's reaction the whole time, ive never seen her so scared! 

We then went to a few more beaches which did meet our expectations, beautiful sandy beaches and lovely views.

We then were taken to a temple in Uluwatu where we had to wear these purple sarongs to enter and were told to watch our personal items because of cheeky monkeys! Here we got to see an amazing view of the coast as well as the temple. We then headed on to Padang Padang for lunch on the beach.

We spent the rest of the afternoon by the pool and I recieved all my university grades, finding out that I will graduate with a 2:1! This obviously called for celebration with a few bottles of wine and a meal at Motel Mexicola. Which is a really cool, obviously Mexican, restaurant which was decorated with lots of colours, had a DJ, and was very busy, it is definitely worth going to if you find yourself in Seminyak in Bali. 

This was one of those rare days for me when something funny doesn't happen, oh wait no, I had 2 Bambooda insects getting a bit fruity on my top! 

Bali- Elephants and Coffee Poo

We arranged to have a driver take us to Bali zoo and to bring us back as it was an hour and a bit journey which worked out cheaper with a driver.

we arrived at the zoo and booked tickets which included a 15 minute elephant ride, you don't need any longer than that (they are so slow). This cost us all 877,000IDR about £42 each, which is not too bad! Obviously we headed straight to the elephants! They were so amazing and tame, we had 2 between us on the ride and then got to go and feed them after, they really love food! 

After this we looked round the zoo and were really shocked to see how small the cages were for most the animals, it was quite sad! We quickly moved on to the restaurant for lunch and to get the chance to hold a baby crocodile and monkey. The monkey was the cutest fluffier thing I've ever seen! I really want one! 

On the way back our driver then took us to a coffee plantation to see how they make their coffee and to see animal which makes the Luwak coffe by eating the coffee plant and pooing out the beans! Apparently the most expensive coffee in the world and the best.