Joanne Bali Trip (27/03/2010 - 30/03/2010), Day1 and Day 2 - Tanaya Bed and Breakfast, Kuta, Kintamani and Tengalalang
Bali here we come!!!
Tanaya - Bed and Breakfast
Jln. Legian 131 Legian Bali 80361
Website: http://www.tanayabed.com
Providing quality accommodation and friendly service for travellers in Bali, the Tanaya Bed & Breakfast Bali is just 3 kilometres from Ngurah Rai International Airport. Located in the heart of Jalan Legian in Bali, a variety of area's places of interests such as Waterbom Park, Prana Spa, Elephant Cave, Bali bombing memorial, Secret Garden Hair and Body Spa, Uluwatu, Kuta Beach and Seminyak Beach are within easy reach from the Tanaya Bed & Breakfast. This property has 26 well-appointed accommodation units, which are furnished and decorated to give comfortable reside for guests in Bali. The guest rooms feature amenities such as air conditioner, cable television, private bathroom with shower, in room safe and a telephone. The Tanaya Bed & Breakfast serves breakfast each morning to start the day for the guests. Cold beer and a variety of snacks are also available for guests during the evening until late. Tanaya Bed & Breakfast Bali has a wireless internet access facility available that enables guests to attend to their work during their stay in Bali. Services such as laundry and airport transfer are also provided for the conveniences of the guests.
Strategically situated in the heart of Kuta, Tanaya Bed and Breakfast is the answer for a cozy low cost accommodation but right in the centre of tourism activities of Kuta. With its premium location, Tanaya Bed & Breakfast is on a walking distance to Bali’s best restaurants, bars, nightlife entertainments and of course to surfer’s paradise, Kuta Beach.
Be in the heart of vibrant Kuta’s life is not just the only thing Tanaya Bed & Breakfast has to offer, cozy bedroom, spotlessly clean bathroom, breakfast and extra amenities, all you can get for a budget price, definitely a great value for money.
Tanaya Bed and Breakfast offers 26 appointed guest rooms in three categories Standard, Superior and Deluxe. The rooms come in double, twin or triple type; all completed with individually controlled air-conditioning, flat screen television with satellite channels, King Koil beds, IDD telephone and safety deposit box.
En-suite bathroom is available for Superior and Deluxe Room; outside bathroom with private hot/cold water shower and toilet is available for Standard Room, located across the hallway.
Tanaya Bed and Breakfast also comes with purposeful facilities, such as ample storage space for surfboards, backpacks and other bulky luggage, one computer with complimentary internet access, open air café-style terrace on the second floor for breakfast and evening cold beer and the most of all is safety; all Tanaya Bed & Breakfast’s property is secured by CCTV and access to the rooms are using secured electric doors.
Tanaya Bed and Breakfast is truly a clean, cozy and cost effective accommodation for budget
Tanaya Bed & Breakfast offers 26 appointed guest rooms in three categories Standard, Superior and Deluxe. The rooms come in double, twin or triple type; all completed with individually controlled air-conditioning, flat screen television with satellite channels, King Koil beds, IDD telephone and safety deposit box.En-suite bathroom is available for Superior and Deluxe Room; outside bathroom with private hot/cold water shower and toilet is available for Standard Room, located across the hallway.
Our Room
Kuta has many options of mid-range-budget restaurants. Most of them serve international cuisine and open from 10 AM until around midnight, few eateries open around the clock. There are also available high-end restaurants with authentic taste and fabulous environment of course you have to dig your pocket a little deeper. For budget travelers Kuta offers roadside stalls (warung) that serve a good selection of Indonesian and international food that can be a real filling and give a much lighter punch to the pocket.
Food:
Low-end
Nusa Indah
Located at Popies Lane 1, Nusa Indah offers cheap Indonesian food and cold beer.
Warung Indonesia
Situated between Popies Lane 1 and 2, Warung Indonesia is popular eatery that packed most night and offers good value for your money.
Kedin’s Café
Kedin’s Café at Popies Lane 1 offers good Indonesian food
Tree House Café
Located at Popies Lane 1, Tree House Café offers delicious Dutch snacks as its specialty; popular eatery; busy and crowded is ordinary scene here.
Aroma Café
Last but definitely not the least is Aroma Café at Jalan Legian, well known for its delicious vegetarian dishes, a highly recommended restaurant.
Mid-range
Made’s Warung
A sociable eating venue at Jalan Pantai Kuta that is popular for local, expats and tourists alike. Made’s Warung serves wide range of food including Indonesian, Japanese and Western; a pioneer of Kuta’s restaurant and is still doing roaring trade.
Kafe Batan Waru
Situated at Jalan Kartika Plaza right by the entrance to Discovery Shopping Mall, Kafe Batan Waru has a good selection of Indonesian food, great coffee and cocktail.
Blue Fin
Blue Fin at Jalan Kartika Plaza is a part of Kuta Sidewalk Complex. This fusion Japanese restaurant serves delicious Japanese food with reasonable prices.
ESC
ESC is situated right in front of Memorial Statue at Ground Zero; it offers variety of food range from sandwiches to steak with reasonable price and cozy atmosphere. ESC opens 24 hours, available for breakfast to midnight snacks.
Kori Bar and Restaurant
This restaurant at Popies Lane 2 serves international cuisine with cozy and comfortable atmosphere; you can choose whether to enjoy the dishes in the private gazebos area or on the seating upstairs or downstairs.
Flapjack
Situated at Kuta Sidewalk, Flapjack offers variety of delectable dishes including various pancakes, waffle, crepes, gelato, and smoothies. It is a good option for breakfast and snack.
High-end
Ketupat
Ketupat at Jalan Legian 109 offers authentic Indonesian food with real Indonesian taste and cozy ambience, highly recommended
Queen’s Tandoor
This offspring of Seminyak’s Queen’s Tandoor is located at Kartika Plaza Street and serves top class Indian food, a restaurant that worth a try.
Maccaroni Club
Maccaroni Club at Jalan legian 52, almost on the opposite of Memorial Statue, serves delicious Italian dishes and some Asian fusion with good desert and service.
Kuta is the best known tourist resort area on the island of Bali in Indonesia.
With a long broad Indian Ocean beach-front, Kuta was originally discovered by tourists as a surfing mecca. It has long been a popular stop on the classic backpacking route in South East Asia. Back in the 1980s they used to talk about the three Ks: Katmandu in Nepal, Khao San road in Bangkok and Kuta. Today Kuta still attracts some hardcore backpackers as well as families and tourists from all over the world, and is most notably a playground for young visitors from Australia.
Due to the ever increasingly popularity of Bali, Kuta is continually developing, and is not short of unsightly, poorly planned buildings. It can come across at times to be chaotic, overcrowded and congested. However, amongst all the mayhem this place somehow works, and hundreds of thousands of visitors enjoy their time in Kuta every year.
Infrastructure has come a long way in Kuta, although it is still insufficient for the amount of visitors who stay in the area. Some side alleys still have significant potholes and road rules still don't mean very much. Most roads are constantly busy with motor scooters, metered taxis and private cars. Instead of using signals, locals and the seasoned travellers honk their motor vehicles to signal overtaking or squeezing into a tight spot near you. Oftentimes cars fold in their side mirrors when negotiating narrow single lanes with parked vehicles. Now you can access free wifi in local convenience stores, restaurants, cafes and hotels. There are half a dozen prepaid mobile phone sim cards available everywhere with competitive top up plans. Touts will persistently try to get to buy something from them, whether you're walking on the streets or seated in a restaurant.
The five km long sandy stretch of Kuta is arguably the best beach front in Bali. The beach is safe, partially clean, well-maintained, although the beach vendors remain annoying pushing massages, hair braiding, cigarettes and surf boards. The long wide stretch of sand is often full of sunbathers and although most of the serious surfers have moved on to newer pastures, there are still plenty of surf dudes around at most times of the year, and especially so during peak season. As you move north along the beach to first Legian and then Seminyak and Petitenget it becomes progressively quieter and less frenetic.
The area of south Kuta closest to the airport is more correctly known as Tuban, but this name is rarely used.
Once the sun goes down, Kuta is the rough and ready party zone of Bali, even after the tragic events of 2002. Even the most hardened of party animal will find something to please them on Jalan Legian at night.
Kuta is a town in the south of the island of Lombok in Indonesia.
The scenery is spectacular, with cliffs and mountains reaching the coast creating jugged and awe inspiring landscapes and views. The beaches are also some of the best in Indonesia, with pristine white sand and transparent blue greens in the water. Kuta has some of the best surfing in the world, so naturally many of the tourists are surfers.
But Kuta also has a wide variety of accommodations and restaurants for back packers to wealthy travelers. So many travelers come to Kuta just to unwind, relax on the beach, rent a motorcycle, read a book or take a nap in the afternoon.
Most of Kuta retains its natural character as a typical fishing village. The local people live in housing clusters (called kampungs) and are largely unaffected by tourist activity. Travelers can walk along dirt roads and see the normal day's activities by the villagers. Food is cooked over a wood fire; the children live a carefree life of playing on the beach, climbing trees, etc. The people are exceptionally friendly to foreigners. Although most do not speak English, they will often welcome you onto their beruga (porch) for a glass of local Lombok coffee.
Nope, not having this tonight, wanna sit down and enjoy a bit, gotta find some plce with better ambiance!!!
Interesting Shop
Shall we dine here, ermmm... keep searching
This one look cosy, great ambience, let's try this!
Bring it on, the Menu
Ceaser Salad
This restaurant serve lacal and western food
Nasi Goreng Indonesian with Chicken
Nasi Padang Chicken
Spaghetti with Ham in Cream Sauce
Our dinner cost around, RM70
We sat and chatted for quite sometime at the restaurant afterour meal. Then we make a move heading back the hotel to get our beauty sleep and to wake up fresh tomorrow, ready for our day 2 journey...so excited, lovely place with lovely friends!
So many night spots to hang around!!
Day 2 - Morning start with Hotel Breakfast
Orange Juice and Coffee, so healthy
Pastries. Wow! This are fattening, who's care, we are on vacation!
Wash it down with fruits
Every meal, bring joyness to everyone
Time to go, journey start!
We hire a MPV, drive on...
First Stop, Coffee Farm
Coffee Farm
From Kintamani we descended a short distance to Coffee Farm, where we sampled some of the coffee beverages of Bali. They’re NOT your average coffee beans, this is Kopi Luwak, hands down the MOST expensive coffee beans in the world. Even a small cup for sampling cost IDR100,000/RM36.50. Needless to say, we were wondering how some beans that have passed through a civet cat’s digestive system can fetch such an exorbitant price tag!
You can see how they prepare the coffee bean Step by step...Live!
look familiar, is our friend, haha, not the worker here
Tasting Time!
After sampling all the coffee, kind of hungry, time to have our breakfast
Bakso-Fishball Noodle
We paid about IDR 28,000 (RM9.00)
Nothing beats our Malaysian Kopitiam version of Fishball Noodle
After Breakfast we make a move to Kintamani Volcano area to walk around and snap some photos then had to the restaurant for lunch...eat..eat...eat
Meaning: May God blesses you
Lunch at a Kintamani restaurant. Mount Batur on the left, and Mount Agung on the right, Lake Batur from a distance.
We are buffet for lunch, with a magnificient Mount Batur(active volcano), and Lake Batur, the largest crater lake on Bali island. Everyone’s cashing out for the view, luckily prior to departure, we searched through some forums, blogs and websites, and most recommended Grand Puncak Sari for buffet with the most reasonable IDR60,000 / RM22 per person, before the addition of 21% service and government tax, one of the highest in all of Bali, with other eateries charging from 10-15% on average. With taxes, the price would be inflated to an almost fine-dining price of RM30++ per person!
I'm very hungry!!! My 1st attempt
Hot Soup
We try Indonesian beer, not bad
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