Day 1
Welcome drink - Called healthy smoothie
Our first hotel with an extra outdoor shower
View outside our room
Motorbikes everywhere!
First lunch, lentil salad
Spa time
Exploring the beach
Day 2
Hotel breakfast
Exploring
Amazing restaurant with live entertainment!
Some of my favourite foods I had been missing all in one meal. Potato skins with guacamole salsa and sour cream, hummus with garlic bread and greek salad along with a delicious healthy smoothie! Mom enjoyed her meal too!
Day 3
We did a full day tour of the island!
First we watched a traditional Balinese show
After we went to a place where they make handmade fabrics
Next we went to a place where they make handmade jewlerry
Next was an art gallery
Traditional temple
Hand-carved wood
Out next stop was a coffee plantation. This is a native Balinese animal that eats coffee beans, digests them and then the coffee beans are washed and reused. The animal is called a Luwak.
Cocoa
Mom and our tour guide
Coffee beans
The different steps
Pinapple
Our samples of coffee and tea
The coffee that is produced from the Luwak's droppings is the most expensive coffee in the world. In Australia, one cup can be sold for up to $50.
My $5 cup of the worlds most expensive coffee. It actually has less caffeine then regular coffee because the Luwak absorbs some of the caffeine is its body.
It was a bit bitter, I needed some sugar!
Our tour's buffet lunch
View of a volcano
It was a bit windy haha
Rice feilds
Monkey forest!
A message, body scrub and flower bath was included with the tour!
Tour's dinner
Balinese food
Day4
Snake fruit
Our next hotel's amazing pool
Restaurant and shopping area near the hotel complex
Day 5
Day Pass at Club Med
Mom went straight to golf, I went straight to the free bar
Buffet lunch
A little snorkelling
A dip in the pool after
Snack restaurant dinner!
Day 6
Long walking path along the coast
Our tour guide told us there are over 1,000,000 temples in Bali
Local beer
Dinner at a famous traditional Balinese restaurant
Soooo much food!! Mom was determined we eat it all
.....and then dessert
Day 7
Local market tour
Balinese tea with a banana leaf
Local sacrifices
Fish market
Yes, that is a baby in a box...specifically a box in the fish market, most likely a fish box
Smoothie at our cooking lesson
So many ingredients
Mom's turn
This was all to make one type of spice
Some refreshing lemonaid
Minced meat with seasoning
Making peanut sauce
The finished product!
Beautiful place for a wedding
Or just a romantic dinner
Last walk on the beach
Really tight security because of an international environmental conference coming up that our very own Stephen Harper was in attendance. We also had to go through a scanner every time we entered our second hotel.
On the plane on my way home.
What amazing memories to cherish forever!
