We slept.
Not too much, but enough to finally feel rested.
And we had breakfast. After so long with poor and not so yummy breakfast, we had the chance to eat for real.
No pictures, but trust me, we ate for real!
Sausages, bacon, waffles, fruit, bread. This was Antonio’s choice, while Sara went with “Experience”: poached snake fruit,curry rice, and some weird green pancake.
We went back to our room to fix some stuff before heading out.
Around 11:30 we called the reception and asked them to rent is a scooter for the day. In 10 minutes it was there.
Today’s destination was the “Bali Bird Park”.
In less than 30 minutes we were there and, after paying the 375k rupias, we got in.
The park is well structured, with birds living both free and in cages.
The cages are very big and allow them to fly around, while mimicking their habitat..
At the entrance there were big parrots ready to play with guest and take pictures with them.
Those two birds were scary, but friendly.
Walking around the park we found many areas where bird were coming spontaneously to sit on your hands.
This little guy came all the way to taste the tissue package
Like two twin sisters
The visit continued, and we tried to see as many birds as possible.
There was also a closed room with owls.
Around 3pm we ended our visit and went looking for a Warung. We found one not too far from the park.
On the way to the restaurant we found a 3 floor shop, something not so common here.
Sara went in shopping mode and I lost her for around 30 minutes.
Finally we got to the Warung.
This was probably the only authentic balinese food experience we had since landed. The place, Warung SS, despite being quite small, was packed, with people waiting to seat or take away.
The menu had no trace of whatsoever Occidental modifications, like all the place we went the past days.
What really makes this place an outsider among the other Warung we tried, was the complete absence of cutlery. We had to eat with our bare hands. For this reason just next to the entrance, there were two sinks.
We ordered two drinks, (fruit juices), grilled duck, rice, eggplants, and fried tofu.
Mango and Pineapple juices
Duck, rice, and sliced eggplants
Fried Tofu
The juices were so thick and dense that it was hard to drink them with a straw.
The duck was very good. The eggplants… Sara barely touched them. They were so spicy that you could use that sauce to send a rocket to the moon!
Finally the Tofu wasn’t so bad.
When we went to pay I could not believe to my own eyes. The bill was less than 60k rupies.
Usually in normal touristix Warung that’s the price of a single dish. We paid and moved on.
Back to the hotel we rested a bit untill 7:40pm when an earthquake hit Lombok, the big island on the east.
The quake was 6.9. as we felt it we run down the stairs, our room is on the third floor, and out into the hotel open court.
After another 10 minutes we went back to our room to get dressed and go get dinner.
As we reached the coast, another earthquake hit. This time stronger. In few minutes a tsunami alert was issued. So we rode back to the hotel.
Better safe than sorry.
As we were alredy there, we decided to have dinner at the hotel’s restaurant.this time I went with something easy and international, while Sara kept the Balinese culinary tradition alive.
Mie Gureng
Beef burger with fries.
We kept our phones always on to check on updates on the tsunami alert, but the alert was dismissed almost immediately.
Next we went back to our room to prepare the luggages for tomorrow’s flight.
Tomorrow will be a chill out day, we are heading to the private beach of our hotel, doing some final shopping and finally get some balinese massage before flying away.
Nighty!
