Saturday, April 19, 2008

Bali



Kalah, David, and I spent our Spring Break on the island of Bali in Indonesia. While there we saw many interesting aspects of the Indonesian culture. The pictures below show only a small portion of what we saw. I thought that it would be enough to give you a glimpse into the incredible week we had.

Our vacation was incredibly relaxing, which is suppose to be the goal of a vaca. The reason it was so relaxing was due to the hotel we stayed at. If you are ever in Bali stay at the Tropical Bali Hotel in Sanur. It's a small hotel but the rooms are great. Also, the owners are fantastic! They did everything they could to help us with....well...everything.


This was one of the temples we went to.


This is an offering placed before the ocean for the evil spirits. I saw one that had a cigarette in it and another with a drink beside it. Most of them have flowers inside and some incense. You find these inside as well as outside of almost every building or shop you come to.

It was incredibly cheap to eat in Bali. Their currency is Ruppiah and as you see here #22 is 22,000 which is essentially the equivalent of $2.20. However, that is not the reason I have this menu displayed. If you look at what #22 includes in their burger you will find a fork! It was amuzing to see all of the errors in menus. This was not the only one we saw.






I loved going to all of the markets. These three pictures are from the market in Ubud. The picture of the temple above also comes from Ubud. It was really amazing to see all of the various items they sold.



These are pictures of some of the rice fields we saw. They were beautiful!


This is the fantastic breakfast we received every morning at our hotel. This is one of the things I missed when I returned to Guam.


This meal looks a little interesting but tasted wonderful. One of the owners cooks the breakfast most every morning and also cooks for supper upon request. Our last three nights there we requested supper. This is a vegetarian dish with eggplant and stuffed tofu with some other veggies. I cannot even describe to you how wonderful this meal tasted!

Glad that I could share with you a little of the experience I had. If you ever want to go on vacation to an island, forget Hawaii, Bali is better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6 comments:

Paeter said...

Howdy stranger, do I know you?! Thanks for the tour tip. There is an idea for your blog - a travel blog with tips and advice...charge for subscription! :) Someday maybe I'll find my way to Bali. How is school?

holamickey said...

To know you are alive and well is almost to much for me... then to see pictures of your travels... oh... it was just too much!

kimberella said...

Yes to the both of you, I am alive. Hopefully I will get to see you during my visit to MI in June :)

holamickey said...

Ummm... a little respect for Pennsylvania... that is where the happening is now.

kimberella said...

So sorry Pastor I didn't realize that you NEVER leave your precious state to see your friends. :(

Paeter said...

You back?