Tanah Lot

 

Picture was taken by Rizki *I give up to took a picture here :(*

 

This picture wa taken by me in the car when we leaved Tanah lot at sunset 

Eka Karya Botanical Garden

 

random view...

Not really have fun

I lost my handphone here :(

 

 Lake Bratan (at Botanical garden view)

Pura Ulun Watu

Taman Ayun Temple

Taman Ayun literally translates as "beautiful garden'. This place is royal temple of Mengwi Empire located in Mengwi, Badung regency.

Pictures below was taken by my beloved friend Mba Ning. She is really great photographer. She has been use DSLR camera for 5 years..

 

In  Taman Ayun Temple I don't have any great pictures.. I wonder was we went to a same places? Because I don't have any pictures like her!!! :(
Need more exercise and learning how to capture an awesome pictures ^__^
Yoshhhh!!! Fighting!

Passing by Padang-Padang beach

 

Suluban beach near Padang-Padang beach, actually before we went to Suluban we had visited Padang-Padang  for the second time..*but I gave my camera to my friends, I really  didn't have any mood to took pictures, *.  And when we back from Suluban to Denpasar we pass Padang-Padang beach again.. and I took the view of beach from car :)

Suluban Beach

Suluban beach is very famous beach for surfing and to take a photograph when surfer in action. So many big rock in  this beach :) Perfect place to take some photographs :)

Paddy Rice Terrace

Sometimes something usual in our lives is extraordinary thing in others live..
So I learn to be thankful and grateful for common thing around me, an ordinary thing in my lives...

Surprise at Blanco Renaissanse Musieum

When I was a child I loved visiting painting exhibition because  near my house there was a Tatang Ganar paining gallery. So, I really exited when my friend asked us to visited Blanco museum and art gallery in Ubud. I don't have any idea who Blanco is..But my friend bloody wanted to went there.. So..Okeyyy... Here we are..

As we enter the gate.. Wow.. I like it, I lake the gate with the Blanco dynasty sign.. Like we entered to a palace.. hehe.. and the building so Balinese architecture, so natural :) [ooh, too many so]

But..whoaa.. I was shocked... and also so surprised.. the object of Blanco's painting were a naked women.. Yuuupp!!! This art, I know, but 'm  not an art expertise who can analyze painting. I just can't enjoy the paint,, just felt embarrassed, like looked my self at the picture... Ooohhh Noooo!!! 
But, his son who become painter also have a different style with his father.  We can see his work in his gallery... the most of his painting are fruits. Now, he manage the musieum and gallery :)

A view in the front yard at the entrance

In this place also not only show painting.. but also photograph of Antonio Blanco with his family and also with fame people.

Antonio Blanco was from Philippines. He studied at National Academy of Art in New York.  During those early formative years, Blanco concentrated on the human form, fascinated by the female body more than any other subject matter. To further his studies and ignite his traveling spirit, he traveled extensively throughout the world before he finally landed in Bali in 1952.The King of Ubud gave Blanco a piece of land to set up his home and studio in Campuan, Ubud, at the confluence of two sacred rivers. Blanco and his Balinese wife, the celebrated dancer Ni Ronji, lived in their mountain retreat, barely leaving it for the world outside.He was death in 1999. [Summarized from http://www.blancomuseum.com/]

But..I do not regret having come here because  I met these beautiful bird...

Although we already took pictures in Bali Bird Park but still we didn't miss opportunity to took pictures agaiiinn and agaiiinnn...

 

Heaven of Paint in Ubud

 

Ubud’s focus remains on the remarkable Balinese culture in its myriad forms.(Lonely Planet).

For centuries ago, King in Ubud invited famous painter to stayed at Ubud and taught Balinese that's way here so many painters and painting workshop. As you see above, there a painting seller in sidewalk.  

Beside painting, Ubud also offer tourist to learn Balinese dance course, Bali spa and massage, restaurant  and villas, temples, shops, galleries, bicycling tour and also natural view of paddy terrace.

Brief Visited Reptile Park

We visited this park because the Reptile Park is beside Bali Bird Park (BBP) and we don't need to buy ticket again to visit this park. We just walking around the park, the area of this park is smaller than BBP but as convenient as BBP. Due to limited time,  not many picture which have taken here and no many stories which have told.
One thing, maybe we arrived too earlier.. so many snakes still sleep :(

Fly High in Bali Bird Park

 

Although we visited Celuk before Bali Bird Park we arrived there too early.. The gate still closed, we waited for half hour.. Then at 10am, the gate was open.. Tadaaaaa... There a lot of birds with beautiful colors in very convenient place :) [But even the birds live in very cozy place,they  cannot fly as high as they can].

Because I'm not bird lover, I cannot memorized they species name although I read  it. Below the pictures of un-known birds (at least unknown for me)  has taken..

 

 

Beside took a pictures, feed birds, We (me and my friends)  also watched 4D movies with so many kindergarten kids about fish in deep ocean (I thought its better to played a bird live)... There also many other activities but we just have a little time to went to next destination :)

For more information about Bali Bird Park you can visit this web: http://www.bali-bird-park.com

Silver Paradise in Celuk

This weekend we (Pak Dudi,  Eko ,Irawan, Mba In , Mba Ning, Rizki and me) start our journey with Celuk where is located in Gianyar, south Bali. This place famous because here a lot of handmade silver art jewelry workshop.

We arrived too early, about 9am so in this shop no other visitor. But, I not bought anything since  I really couldn't afford these I don't like use a jewelry (honestly, true reason is because I often lost my jewelry..
The price is relative for each person, but for me, the price here quite expensive, look at the tiny broach above (right corner) the price is about Rp. 500.000.. But it's worth because all of the jewelry are handmade, you see to produce one jewelry it takes long time depend on dificulity of design.

Legian Festival

 

Legian festival...hmm.. 

I just prefer to walked on Legian beach and waiting for sunset than walking among the food stalls, souvenir stalls, tourism stalls from various provinces in Indonesia.

I has tried to capture beautiful pictures... 

But I was so helpless because my picture worse although the amazing sky. I didn't have any idea to found right setting, I was so afraid to lost moment.. In hurried because my friends not stunned iwth the great sky,  then I  asked forced my friend, Rizki to took a picture. So below is his worked. This picture is great, isn't it?

Sunset at Kuta

Every sunset I always speechless..

So amazing painting sky =) 

Feel so grateful.

Nusa Dua

 

Nusa Dua translates literally as 'Two Islands'- the islands are actually small raised headlands, each with a little temple. Nusa Dua is better known as Bali's top-end beach resort enclave-a glided ghetto of five -star hotels. (ref. Lonely Planet)

Direction

I felt that sea water in Nusa Dua warmer that Padang Padang. Maybe because I arrived in afternoon. I didn’t see any huge reef stone in Nusa Dua as in Padang-Padang beach. But I saw many trees not far away from the beach.  Like Padang Padang beach so many foreign tourist. 

Different from Uluwatu, I not forbidden to entered the temple in Nusa Dua. 

 

This temple was built by Babah Ketut Jaya (Tan Sie Yong) in 1948. The shaman said that Pura Dharma Nusa Dua is for all religion, this is proven by the temple has a symbol of all religion: Cristian, Jews, Muslim, Buddhist, and of course Hindu.

Padang-Padang beach

Then we went to Padang Padang beach.  I really fall in love with this seashore. Because the gate to enter the beach looks like a cave and so many huge reef stone on the beach.  

 

 

 

 This beach became a place where the shooting "Eat-Pray-Love" has taken. , I have imagined this sand, air, water as same as Julia Roberts have felt. In this beach so many foreigners have tanned and surfed.  Because I amazed with beautiful scenery, I took lot of pictures. I didn’t realized that in this beach we could found beautiful shells. My friends have found a beautiful shells and brought it as mementos.  

We felt really hungry after visited Padang Padang beach, so we stopped by at Padang restaurant. Beside  we needed to eat,  we also needed to pray.