A very early morning...6:30am. The play we were going to started at 9:30 in the morning, which meant we had to meet our driver at 8, which meant getting up at 6:30. We drove to Gianyar where we watched a Barong & Kris Dance. The dance was telling what was like a folk tale of Indonesia. We were mostly able to follow along, but it would've been impossible to do without our pamphlet that already described the story for us. The dancers put on very impressive dances.
We were then taken to a batik store where outside the store we could watch people making batiks. Sadly, it didn't show every stage of it, which is what LuRue and Montana were most interested in. Inside, there were many, many very detailed batik drawings. The artist must have a lot of patience to get such detail using batik. We wished we could have seen more batiks in the process of making. We didn't spend much time there though, since neither of us are really into shopping.
Assuming we were going back we got in the car ready for an hour and a half drive. Fifteen minutes later though, the driver pulled into a bird zoo, which cost over 30 dollars to get in. We walked around looking at all the beautiful birds and admiring them, while discussing how depressing it is to cage wild animals and wondering how humans would feel if other animals put humans in a cage. We saw birds from all different parts of the tropics. Who knew where we were heading next when we got back to the car. Was it Candidasa? Was it another touristy place?
Oh yeah! Another temple. This one was a little more complex than the first one we saw. There were more detailed sculptures and more places to look around, but still neither of us were thrilled. Plus we were both burning up from the sun and didn't want to spend much more time in direct sunlight. Our favorite part of this stop was when we walked past some random Chinese tourists and they very excitedly dragged us in to get their pictures taken with us.
We then were driven to a waterfall where we walked up to a viewpoint and got to look down on all the people swimming in the falls. After some thought, Montana decided to walk down several flights of stairs to the falls. LuRue, however, decided to stay at the viewpoint. Montana stepped into the falls, but sadly couldn't go much farther, because she had no bathing suit and the sign specifically said no nudity. "Don't worry, be sexy, but not nude". She walked back up the long, painfully unending stairway where she met LuRue and we walked back to the car.
We were taken to our hotel, where we spent an hour or so in the pool, before heading to dinner. We went to the same restaurant we had our cooking class at. The food in our class was good enough to make us want to try out the restaurant. LuRue ordered some BBQ ribs, while Montana had a chicken tutu, and no, it was not a chicken dressed in a tutu as amusing as that would have been. The dinner was great. For dessert LuRue had a crepe with coconut inside, Dadar Gulung, and Montana had a white and dark chocolate brownie with ice-cream.
After dinner was over, the waitress informed us that a 15 to 20 minute dance would be starting soon. We decided to stay to at least watch part of it, but we had to leave early to give time to go over pictures and write the post.
We were then taken to a batik store where outside the store we could watch people making batiks. Sadly, it didn't show every stage of it, which is what LuRue and Montana were most interested in. Inside, there were many, many very detailed batik drawings. The artist must have a lot of patience to get such detail using batik. We wished we could have seen more batiks in the process of making. We didn't spend much time there though, since neither of us are really into shopping.
Assuming we were going back we got in the car ready for an hour and a half drive. Fifteen minutes later though, the driver pulled into a bird zoo, which cost over 30 dollars to get in. We walked around looking at all the beautiful birds and admiring them, while discussing how depressing it is to cage wild animals and wondering how humans would feel if other animals put humans in a cage. We saw birds from all different parts of the tropics. Who knew where we were heading next when we got back to the car. Was it Candidasa? Was it another touristy place?
Oh yeah! Another temple. This one was a little more complex than the first one we saw. There were more detailed sculptures and more places to look around, but still neither of us were thrilled. Plus we were both burning up from the sun and didn't want to spend much more time in direct sunlight. Our favorite part of this stop was when we walked past some random Chinese tourists and they very excitedly dragged us in to get their pictures taken with us.
We then were driven to a waterfall where we walked up to a viewpoint and got to look down on all the people swimming in the falls. After some thought, Montana decided to walk down several flights of stairs to the falls. LuRue, however, decided to stay at the viewpoint. Montana stepped into the falls, but sadly couldn't go much farther, because she had no bathing suit and the sign specifically said no nudity. "Don't worry, be sexy, but not nude". She walked back up the long, painfully unending stairway where she met LuRue and we walked back to the car.
We were taken to our hotel, where we spent an hour or so in the pool, before heading to dinner. We went to the same restaurant we had our cooking class at. The food in our class was good enough to make us want to try out the restaurant. LuRue ordered some BBQ ribs, while Montana had a chicken tutu, and no, it was not a chicken dressed in a tutu as amusing as that would have been. The dinner was great. For dessert LuRue had a crepe with coconut inside, Dadar Gulung, and Montana had a white and dark chocolate brownie with ice-cream.
After dinner was over, the waitress informed us that a 15 to 20 minute dance would be starting soon. We decided to stay to at least watch part of it, but we had to leave early to give time to go over pictures and write the post.
Sounds like it was another fun filled day. You might have to start wearing your bathing suits everywhere just in case. Waterfall looks very nice.
ReplyDeleteWow, you unknowingly packed a lot in one day. Hope you got some photos of the batik process although you mention that you wished you had seen more. Seeing each stage of the process would have been so interesting.
ReplyDeleteOnce again yummy desserts!