Indonesia Bali Trip (Day 2) Part6

5th stop: Sacred Monkey Forest Sanctuary
An interesting history of this sanctuary and Balinese Hinduism
Entrance to the monkey forest

The locals selling banana by the entrance

Lotsa monkeys running around. The monkey here are quite tame.. they dun snatch..guide say becoz there have bundles of bananas from the tourist~ Saw some hilarious and quite scary there.. There was one white American guy trying to take close intimate photos with a small monkey~ their big/old monkey tribe leader suddenly made some furious noise and came running toward him with sharp fangs (very old money.. teeth/fangs very long) .. the angmo guy freak out!! and he shouted FUCK OFF!!! so loud that everyone (including the old monkey) got shocked!!! LOL~

Another buddy enjoying his meal

Monkey Pool~ Their life are good!!!

The temple inside the monkey forest.. u must pay/donate to wear the "SARONG" b4 enter..

The inner temple gate is locked.. in Indian culture they only allow Hindi to enter their sanctuary place~ so all their "tourist attraction" sanctuary hall are mostly locked!! The building is sooo pretty!!! Old and full of stories~

This place used to be a temple + town council.. so ppl do gather here for meetings!! Photo above is a bell~ to call or to gather~ it's locked and the guide say if somehow u manage to ring it.. u will get fined~ =___="

i always think this sculpture doesn't look right.. look like the monster is preparing to eat the child he is holding~ HaHa

Us and our sarong thingy~

The town council hall

Roof made with sugarcane

Green everywhere.. so many moneys so many trees so many sculptures covered in algae

something common abt their traditional sculptures are their characters posses some kind of magical animal/ monster look~ alittle bit of Thai alittle bit of Hindi alittle bit of Malay~

The Wishing Pond!! our wish: the 10million lotto coming this sat!!!

Komodo dragon waterfall.. it's on a cliff~ our guide have stand on one edge to take this photo for us~ They love komodo dragons.. have alot of sculptures on them *even in jakarta airport* they are indo's protected species evolved from dinosaur era~

Indonesia Bali Trip (Day 2) Part5

Lunch Time!

the guide brought us to try one of their famous dish "BABI GUILING"! yah.. babi is PIG!!! ... Babi Guiling is suckling pig!!! Surprise right.. hahahaa the guide explained.. in Bali, most ppl here are Hindu not Muslim.. tts y they consume pig and not cow

This shop only roast 5 piglet per day.. closed at 1pm.. gd biz

Hm.. their pig look evil~ sort of look like pig monster~

Inin and his friend ;)

It's a Pig Mansion! Pig everywhere

Too crowded so we went on 2nd floor~

Ino's mummy

Mangosteen by Bumsoo~

The suckling pig! heng we order one portion only!!! not as nice as i expected!!! Chinese Suckling pig is much much crispy, tender, juicy, not so salty and not so oily!!! maybe the Malay are just not very good in pig?! i know cook chicken very well...

Sad thing is they only sell 1 dish here~ We went super sian -__________-"

There was a little bridge linked to i suppose to be their house~ didn't dare to step in.. so i went to their balcony instead~ guess what.. wow they have a rice paddy field facing their house~ nice hor!!! cfm smell very nice during harvest season...

Look at how tired and hot this 2 are... HA!

Indonesia Bali Trip (Day 2) Part4

Famous temple of Bali~ u have to wear tt sarong thingy to enter .. and of coz they are "chargeable" via something call entrance fee/donation!

Indonesia Bali Trip (Day 2) Part3

Second Stop: Silver Making Factory

We viewed the process of silver making~Lady melting and crafting the silver.. Indonesian art and crafting are good!!! some of those silver are super small and fine~

Very humid n hot~ quite dangerous too!! hard money~

Another area.. Wash and Polishing~

Most of the rings are for local market i guess.. very Indonesian/traditional Chinese style.. we saw alot of those Big "ah peh" rings that day

They also have alot of metallic steel and bronze sculpture around~ i like their idea of mixing steel and stone, bronze and wood.. these combination looks really creative and great..

Hidis-like sculptureMain entrance to their retail outlet

Look at those sculpture on their 2nd floor~ WOW!! pic is lousy.. took it in a hurry + i got scolded after i took this pic!!! ~ =_=" *no photography allow*

Indonesia Bali Trip (Day 2) Part2

Day 2 was a guided tour~ Ino's mummy got us a Korean tour * i couldn't understand.. haiz* anyway guide tour was cheap!! only abt $100 for 1 whole day of guide trip *believe English guide tour should be even cheaper?!*

First Stop: Pearl Centre~ This wasn't according to plan.. we happen to pass by this pearl centre so went ahead to take alook~ Seashells with half grown pearl~

A little of the auntie business... =p *only mum is int*

Mecure Kuta Bali

Didnt took much pic of the hotel.. photo stolen from Mecure WebMecure Kuta Bali Hotel

Our seaview deluxe room.. nice room but the seaview was quite disappointing.. imagine east coast park outside ur door -_-"

Breakfast Room