Happy new year everyone! 1430 AND 2009! Now, on with the pictures.

2nd day in Bali, and we started the day by going to a Barong show. We got there quite early, the show pun belum start, the place was still empty, but they were playing the music already (imagine live lounge music) and by the looks of it, boy do they look bored. Tengoklah pakcik tu, sure bosan hari-hari buat main lagu samaaa aje. Sure dia nak break into The Final Countdown or Eye of The Tiger or sumthin.

And then the show started and it was freaky.

That door we posed at was the same one, except my wife posed inside the barong show’s place, while i was standing on the outside.

And next we went to this small temple in Ubud for sightseeing and phototakings. It was small, and we weren’t too bored of seeing temples yet (because honestly, that’s ALL you see here), so we had fun. We got to really start using my new camera tripod.

Rasa macam Indiana Jones dengan Lara Croft aje. At the temple of doooom~~!

And then after a little souvenir shopping at Ubud, we went to the famous Tegalalang rice terrace place..It was beautiful, but the paddy had already been harvested, so it wasn’t as green as it could’ve looked. I tried out making wide, panoramic pictures with the tripod this time, and well, ingatkan tak jadi, but hey, not bad eh? The weather was not helping though, cos as we were taking the pictures, rain started to pour. Fast.

We went straight to Kintamani in hopes of getting to see Mount Batur..Wikipedia says it’s an active volcano, but our driver says it’s last eruption in 2000 IS the last. But we couldn’t see a thing! It was all foggy because of the cold weather and rain. See how unhappy and ugly i got over it? We ended up just spending the afternoon there having our lunch in the cold..looking at fog.

It was a long drive down from Kintamani, so me and the wife slept through in the car all the way..We specifically asked the driver not to bring us to any more temples, but the sneaky Pak Hendro..Bangun-bangun aje dah sampai temple yang ni. I was really cranky because of that, I didn’t even get my camera out, only my wife took pics. Plus, this time we had to PAY to enter the temple. Grr. The only unique thing we saw at this temple was that there was this bath place for the public to soak in. Some kinda cleansing ritual. Entah. And the rain stopped. Just in time for another temple. Not a volcano. A temple. I was cranky.

After that, we headed straight back to the hotel. We hadn’t solat yet, cos the restaurant in Kintamani kinda had a bad, dirty, and no water, surau…so we were rushing for our jamak ta’khir of asar and zohor. It was close to sunset when we decided to walk to Kuta beach. They say it was only a 15 minute walk, so what the heck. I think it took us 20 minutes. Felt longer though for someone carrying his camera gear and tripod and a 4 month pregnant wife. At the beach we saw some people surfing and then we took some pics there until it got dark.

..After the beach we went around Jalan Legian again. We tapau-ed our dinner from this minang place which was way more sedap than the place we ate before and then makan depan tv in our room watching hilarious Indonesian ads and a funny movie called Pretty Boy. And that is the end of day 2.