Bali Trip - Day 3 (Part 1)

On third day - 2nd August 2008, our driver came to pick us up at 9am, then we straight headed to Sukawati located at Gianyar, one of place famous with its art market - Sukawati Art Market. You can buy wood handicraft and other souvenirs with cheapest price.

Sukawati Art Market open around 9am and close around 5pm. Most likely you can get the cheapest prices when they just opening the shop or near closing hours. Beside that, there was a morning market - Sukawati Morning Market which open around 6am until 11am, mainly wood stuff and semi finish wood craft as it is sell to the resellers. Because we went there early, so the price the seller start up was quite cheap. I think if there were a lots of tourist arrive there, the price of items will be different. So we bought a lots of wood crafts there. Because we still have other place to go, we just stayed at the market around 2 hours. Honours to say, 2 hours were not enough for those who like to shopped. So, next time I still want to come again.

Pasar Seni Sukawati (Sukawati Art Market)

Sukawati Morning Market

After we finished shopped at Sukawati Art Market, it was lunch time. We went to Bebek Bengil Dirty Duck Diner, one of the famous restaurant located in Ubud to have our lunch. When we stand in front of the restaurant and look inside, we thought the restaurant was very small and crowded with tourists. But when we went inside, we felt like stepping in other place. The place was very wide and have a very beautiful landscape which we could enjoy our meal with a very beautiful scene. We ordered their famous dish - Crispy Duck. They fried the duck until it became very dried and crispy. Then eat with sambal (chili paste) which is very spicy. Since my sister did not like to eat duck, she ordered Special Fried Rice which came with two sticks of satay, keropok and vegetable salad. The taste of crispy duck was delicious.

Bebek Bengil Dirty Duck Diner

(From Left) Ice Lemon Tea (Rp. 8,000), Orange Juice (Rp. 13,000) and Ice Tea (Rp. 6000)

Bebek Bengil (Crispy Duck with Rice) , Sambal, Chili Onion Sauce and side dish(Rp. 63,000)

Nasi Goreng Special (Rp. 31,000)

After lunch, it almost 2:30pm. Since my uncle and my brother-in-law have appointment with Verona Spa to enjoy the spa treatment - Javanese Lulur (Rp. 115,000), and my sister and I wanted to go to the shops along Tegallalang road to buy other handicrafts. So, we asked our driver dropped my uncle and my brother-in-law at Verona Spa, my sister and I went to Tegallalang. Then, we came back to Verona Spa to meet them again.

We saw Balinese cremation ceremony on the way to Tegallalang. When we reached the shops along Tegallalang Road, we found out a lot of shops did not open due to the ceremony. So, it was a very bad timing for me. <( ToT)> *CRY!!!*

So, my sister and I just walked along the road and see which shop was open and sell the handicraft that we want to buy. The shops there were different with Sukawati Art Market because at the market, we can find different handicraft in one shop, but in the shop at Tegallalang, they just focus on selling one type of handicraft such as wood crafts in one shop, stone craft in the other shop because their main business is wholesale business. So when we want to buy somethings, we have to spend more times to walk into different shops to look around. Luckily, we still able to buy some wood handicrafts from the shop with very cheap price because along the road, I think there was just two of us as tourist were walking on the road, others were local people. \(^o^)/ *Hahahahahaha.........* Next time, I still want to go buy stuff at Tegallalang. Beside that, we do plan to go Ubud Market, but we were running out of time. So we skipped this market. After we done with buying our stuff (actually because a lot of shops which we have marked as our interest shops did not open), we went back to Verona Spa to pick up my uncle and my brother-in-law.

Cremation

Shops along the Road of Tegallalang

Wood Craft Shop

When we reached Verona Spa, they still not finish with their spa treatment. So we went to walk at the shops near there to spend our time. After 30 minutes, they were done and meet up with us. Then, we headed back to Kuta.

Verona Spa

To be continue......