We made another stop near by, I had no idea nor what to expect at this stop, our friend just told us the name is Pura Candi Gunung Kawi. I thought it was just going to be another Pura, just like the others, boy... was I wrong... it was nothing like the common Pura in Bali, I never even saw anything like it before with my own eyes.
It really was something, but gosh... you really need extra effort to get there and a more extra extra effort to get back to the parking area. What do I mean by saying that? This is the thing... this place is located below your parking area, to get down there are steps.. oh... let me elaborate that a bit... lots and lots and lots of steps!!! And it really was something for me who was having a knee problem due to some kicks I did at my body combat class :P
But the hard job really was worth it once you got down and saw the pura, it really is an awe. Pura or candi are usually build by putting blocks of stones on top one of the other, but these pura are made from big hill stones carved into the form of a pura, it instantly reminded me of Petra in Jordan. The immense size of it made me feel so small. Though the carving decorations are not as excuisite for it’s details as it is in the other candi-s, this is something new, it’s so different than the others.
The complex area itself if I’m not mistaken is divided in around 10 area, we could only cope to explore 3 of them. While we were in one of the inside pura area, it seems that there would be a ceremony to be held in a few days, since there were lots of local people that were preparing things, offcourse I won’t miss the chance of taking pictures with them, with their permission first for sure. Once we are done looking around and taking pictures, I just found out that the exit way is another way from our entry, now... the pura made me in awe but the exit way gave me a shock!!!
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| Subak - Balinese irigation system & Padi field |
The first part of the exit way was really steep that made us have to crawl on our hands and foot, we joke around saying that it’s the spiderman style of exit, afterwards it is joined with the stairs again where we entry the site again, mind your balance please coz if you fall you’ll land on a rice padi field. Just make sure you wear your comfortable shoes or sandals, and no high heels please.
Going back South of the island we made a stop over first at Sanur beach, I forgot that in August there is Sanur Festival where lots of things happens, including the kite contest, we past by the contestant who brought back there kites, it’s as big as trucks, it’s my first time (again) seeing kites that big not on tv. Sanur beach itself looks like a local beach, not as clean as kuta, many children were playing around the beach. Local meatballs known as ‘bakso’ were sold there, usually it is made with meat, but Hindu considered cow as holy and not allowing the followers to eat them, so they sell “bakso” from chicken, and it tasted quite ok as chicken bakso.
Tonight we are checking in at Novotel NusaDua, I guess we made the right decision for choosing the place as our place to live at our last nights in Bali, Save the best for last, I agree so much with you dear Vanessa Williams J
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