Christmas in Bali + Bali guide: Why to visit Bali? How to get there?Where to eat? What to visit? & My personal experience
Hi! I promised you that as soon as I have some time to sit down with a cup of tea and my laptop I will write down my whole Bali experience, more exactly, how I spent Christmas there. Yes, you read it right I spent my past Christmas in Bali and How was it? magical, unique and life changing! Don’t get me wrong when I tell you that I traveled in a lot of places on this earth, but none like Bali.
Why to visit it?
Well, because you can see beauty in every single corner, because it will change your perspective over almost everything, over the meaning of life. It’s a place that will make you smile everyday because of the amazing people there. The locals are poor, but they are so optimist and they never stop dreaming. We met a mom and her lovely daughter and we used to buy them sweets every evening. It was wonderful to see the joy in their eyes for a bag of sweets, the hope in their souls which never goes out...
How to get there?
I know it seems to be at the end of the world and the flight is long and boring, but trust me, it’s so so worth it! Yeah, basically, you can travel there with the plane from almost any corner of the world and that’s how we traveled too so I can’t tell you about other ways to get there. We got there at night and we stayed at this traditional hotel named Kupu Kupu Jimbaran, obviously, in Jimbaran. The experience here was amazing and the personal was so nice! Of course you can stay at Le Meridian, but the experience won’t be the same! I have some pictures in my highlights on my Ig account of the interesting traditional things that were in our hotel room. Honestly, when I saw where it was located I thought it was going to be the worst hotel in the whole world. It was on a basic street with no garden in front, just two big (more exactly, giant) doors painted in dark colors combined with all shadows of red. The magic happened the moment I entered the door. It all discovered to me as the biggest and highest room that I wasn’t expecting at all. Everywhere you looked it was bamboo wood and it all looked sooo perfect! it was kind of a giant resort with an infinity pool and a cafe where we used to eat cakes and ice cream every evening after dinner and the ‘apartment’ that we stayed in which was actually a mini house. At breakfast we had the view of a oasis in a tropical paradise! Everything was perfect!
Where to eat?
Well, you can find many lovely nice restaurants, but I recommend you to eat on the beach. There are a plenty of restaurants from where you can choose the one that’s best for you. We ate at Padansari Cafe which was nice, but we also ate at Menega which I liked best! The food was really good in both places and you could choose the food that you wanted to eat directly from the fridge. You showed them if you wanted the bigger or the smaller fish and stuff like that.
What to visit? Here, I am not going to tell you what we did every single day because you could check my instagram account for that, but I am going to talk about my favorite places there.
Ok, first I wanted to tell you that we got a lot of braids in the first day and we saw an amazing sunset because this were the most interesting things we did that day.
We went in the north of the island where there is volcanic black sand for taking some photos and we discovered some of their traditional food. Also, we went to the Tirta Gangga Temple where we fed fish and it was all so much fun!
Something else I remember was the secret garden and the Coffee Plantation (for more pictures visit mi IG account on highlights). There, the gave us lots of kinds of tea to taste, but the ones I liked better were mangosteen and Pandan, which tasted like caramel. The also had Luwak Coffee, that my parents got, and hot chocolate. We actually left that place with a lot of bags with tea and coffee because they were soooo good. Next to that there were super fun swings and photo places, where we got really nice shots.
One day we visited the Monkey Forest. I don’t have many photos from there on my IG because I left my phone in the car since the guide told us that was better. We have some pics on our GoPro and my dad’s phone, though. The monkeys were all free and they could touch us and all that. The only thing was that it was a bit risky. Fun story, someone tried to take a picture with the monkey and I think the touched it or something because at that moment all monkeys starting running after that person. Our friends little daughter screamed because she was afraid and the monkeys ran after her too until the security came. Luckily, they didn’t bite her as they did to another kd. So, if you go there, make sure you don’t upset the monkeys. Otherwise, it is a lot of fun.
Also, we went to an acvatic place there and we also visited a lot of temples, but I honestly didn’t find those as amazing as what I wrote before. One of the temples that I remember and that I thpought was fus was the one that was covered by water in the afternoon so we could only visit that in the mornings. It was really nice.
My personal experience
Well, I loved Bali, but be aware of the fact that it is a really big island and you can get lost easily since it’s super busy. Also I would like to say that we had the best driver in the whole world, that could tell us where to go and what to visit then. unfortunately, I can only link his IG account. This was months ago and rn, the world is basically shut down, but I hope this is gonna go away as soon as possible. Stay safe!
