Travel Experience
Here comes our final day in Bali. After 3 joyful days in exploring this magnificent island of Indonesia, we were going to leave Bali and back to Malaysia on this day. Before our departure time of 2:20pm, what could still be done for these last minutes?
Well, we did our final shopping session! We called it last minute souvenir hunting. Considering the check-in luggage weight allowance of 7kg per person, we have some balance of 8kg to fill up with apart from our clothing luggage. TRAVEL TIPS: ALWAYS JUDGE OR ESTIMATE YOUR LUGGAGE WEIGHT CAREFULLY BEFORE BUYING ANYTHING JUST TO MAKE SURE THE CHECK-IN LUGGAGE, IF POSSIBLE, IS STILL WITHIN THE LIMIT OF AIRLINES ALLOWANCE. Then we were off to grab, after our wonderful buffet breakfast at Kuta Seaview (Oh come on, again!?). We went back to Gang Poppies Road where we could find whatever we need to buy. Two hours later, we returned to our resort with all our hands fully occupied, with souvenirs! 
We packed our luggage carefully with extra protection wrapping to those fragile items that we bought, just to make sure no damage would be happened during air travel (Unfortunately, my lovely glass mosaic plate still broken during our flight 
). At 12 noon, it was time to say Goodbye to Kuta Seaview Cottage. In order not to regret in future, we take some photos of our deluxe cottage and the main entrance of the resort, and then there were those guys hanging outside of the resort trying to sweet-talk and persuade us to join a time sharing vacation programe by giving away digital camcorder for free! (you could see these guys sitting beside me in the photo) Would you believe that? I did not expect such fraud in Bali…
Another Rp50,000 for a taxi to the Ngurah Rai international airport, we reached the airport almost 2 hours ahead of the departure time in order not to repeat our mistake when we came here. But is it ironic or what, ‘Dang Dang! Dang Dang!’, I received a SMS through the local INDOSAT network. It was from Air-Asia and it said: “CORRECTION! AirAsia Flight AK901 from Denpasar(BALI) to KUL(LCCT) on 24MAY08 is now RETIMED to 4.20pm(1620hrs). For info please call 60386604343 or 60387754000.” ‘Gosh!! How could this be happened!’ Our flight to Malaysia has been delayed again for almost 2 hours! And it was last minute change and we were already inside departure hall! The most funniest part of all was, AirAsia was expecting all fliers to have their mobile phone International-Roaming-Service activated!?
Unexpectedly, we needed to wait for almost 3 hours after checking in, and we made a terrible mistake. Some international airports have limited stores and shops beyond the boarding gate, so we expected the same in Ngurah Rai International Airport. But it is not! BALI or NGURAH RAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT has one of the largest duty free shopping plaza at 2nd floor after the boarding checkpoint! TRAVEL TIPS: ALWAYS STUDY THE AIRPORT LAYOUT OF YOUR DESTINATION CITY BEFORE YOUR TRAVEL IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHERE YOU COULD DO WHAT AND GET WHAT IN THE AIRPORT. So we continued our souvenir hunting….
Three hours later at 7:20pm, we saw our LCCT airport, hmm… not actually, because it was too hazy, but at least I could still feel it….. And it wraps up our unforgettable 4-day-Summer Travel Experience to Bali. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I and my wife do. Please feel free to comment should you have any travel tips to share with our readers. – Travel Feeder.com
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I have been talking a lot on shopping in Bali but what have we actually bought from Bali? Apart from those snacks and fritters we bought for our family and friends, we were also hunting for our souvenir collection. It is always exciting to keep some souvenirs from the country so we could recall our memory about the place that we’ve been to everytimes we see that souvenir. TRAVEL TIPS: IT IS GREAT TO HAVE THIS REVIEW OR TRACKBACK THINGY SO WE MIGHT FEEL LIKE VISITING THE COUNTRY OR CITY AGAIN AFTER SOMETIMES. In fact, there are few cities that have already been highlighted in my list of re-visiting. If you are interested to know more, you may subscribe to my feed for further updated list. So, what are the Top 5 Souvenirs that we have hunted down in Bali?
Wood Carving Sculpture – A nice sculpture displaying a couple kissing each other emphasising the alluring body figure of the lady. The display price was some Rp120,000 but we managed to bargain and bought at Rp70,000;
Home made Abstract Painting – This wonderful abstract is painted by a local backyard artist with the most attractive ‘Golden Touch’ at the center of the painting. The painting is measuring some 2 feet by 5 feet and it costs us Rp150,000;
Glass Mosaic Plate - A square 1foot by 1foot curvy plate made from small pieces of coloured glass mosaic on ceramic base displaying different texture under the light. My wife really loved it at first sight. It could be used as plate to fill up with some sweets or just holding it upright for display. Price: Rp80,000;
Fancy Wood Round Mirror Frame – This fantastic mirror and frame is actually made of MDF board carved into round and sun like shape and painted with some striking gold paint and small mirror inserts. Glass size is 15 inch diameter and unbelievable low price at only Rp20,000 !
Slippers??? – Yes. It’s a pair of slippers from Kuta Seaview Cottage, the place we stayed during our holiday in Bali. We took back both pairs of these complimentary slippers for our sweet memories (Off course the permission must be seeked from the management officer). The price? The small wording of the cottage actually worth a million…
These are the top 5 souvenir we brought back from Bali. You may like some of them. So make sure to get it yourself once you are in Bali. The price can always bargainable and you have to make sure the final price is at least half of the initial offer. See ya. – Travel Feeder
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