Luke Carbis

What’s all this?

09.10.07 - Luke

First thing we did after we got up was have breakfast. Here I am expecting a buffet. It was a small mound of ick.

No, it wasn’t that bad, but it definately wasn’t good.

After that, and a swim, we met Dana in the hotel lobby. He booked us in at a similar restaurant as the one we ate at last night, but with a 10% discount and free beer, for Saturday night. We leave at 5, to see the sunset.

He also booked us for Elephant riding on Thursday, and watersports on Monday. Oh, and there’s white-water rafting included with the elephants.

After that we went for a walk toward Kuta square, and did quite a lot of shopping and bargaining along the way.

That’s when we met this guy who gave us this little promo thing, and T won 1st prize. I was very suss when they said we could win $1000 AUD if we went with them to see a presentation (great marketing) but with the promise to take us back to Kuta Square (save us the walk), we went along, only to be told when wwe got there that we were too young.

So they paid for a lift back to Kuta square, we had a short look around and some Macca’s, then went to Kuta beach.

Talia, by this point, was sick of being hassled to buy something from every single passing Indonesian, so many “tidak terama kasih”’s  were uttered.

After a nice long walk along the beach, we got in a horse and cart and paid RP 50,000 (about $6) for a wonderful trip back to our hotel.

We sat by the pool for a while, and there was ab afternoon nap in there somewhere, then went for a walk to find a cheap feed.

After walking through some interesting backstreets, we chanced upon a small cheap restaurant. We ordered a beer, a lemonade, 3 spring rolls, two plates of noodles with chicken, and we paid RP36,000 ($4.50AUD)

I loved it, but it was a little too spicy for Talia.

Then we walked home and called it a day.

09.10.07 - Talia

After a rather hot night sleep it was no wonder we were awake quite early. I was looking forward to breakfast and after reading the ‘menu’ on the voucher, it was what I expected. But also, as I have come to expect in Bali, it wasn’t all… as I expected.

Bacon and eggs scrambled TOGETHER, and 3 pieces of watermellon, banana, and papaya in rows for fruit salad.

We met our tour man in the lobby and booked for elephants and rafting, water sports and a similar restaurant as the night before, but with free beer and 10% discount this time. We then had to seriously reassess our budget and wonder where the hell all the $ had gone so fast.

We went walking though, trying to find Kuta square. I’m still fairly disoriented in Bali, particularly because we’ve only been given 1 map of the area and it was very undetailed.

I definitely feel like we’re in the suburban part of Bali. We’re in Caloundra, instead of M’ba, if that makes sense.

After winning prizes in a scratchie hotel promo and being scooted off to the HQ only to be rejected because our fake (older) ages weren’t old enough, we got to Kuta Square. Saw Maccas (24-7 PLUS Delivery!!!) and many other familiar brands. It’s cheaper here, but not $20 cheap. $50 for a pair of Levis, so that’s pretty good.

Saw the digital version of my SLR and when we have a bit of $$ again I’ll call Dad and ask if he wants it. $800 approx.

The beach was grainy and I’m sick of being harassed, but as Luke said, you just have 2 get in the spirit of it.

Dinner was HOT and I didn’t really enjoy it, but we did go through where the people live, so that was really interesting.

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