Good morning! Today we are leaving Bedugul, but we're still staying in
Bedugul. It's time for a day trip! We are heading to a nearby temple,
we're headed to a hot spring, and maybe a waterfall or two. Let's see what we can find!
And the stones are really freaking hot. You have to take off your shoes to visit. So, we are at a
temple that has a beautiful lying down buddha. It's not actually our destination for the day
so we're trying to figure out how to break the news to our driver, because the road to get
here was so twisty and windy. [Earlier] I feel a lot better because Google Maps takes even the
locals down the wrong roads. We think this is a wrong turn and it's taken us to what looks like
a cave in the road. It was beautiful. We saw these amazing rice fields and hydrangea farms,
but these were not the Buddhist temples that we were looking for,
so, oh we're gonna have to break it [This isn't the Buddhist temple you're looking for; go about your business.]
We're going to have to break it to him, but we're just going to this different one. Oh, I'm so nervous.
Before talking to our driver, we explored the Vihara Dharma Giri temple,
known for its 10 meter wide sleeping buddha that's in a serene setting.
Shoes are allowed now but it's kind of fun to walk around barefoot, so i'm going to.
After consulting with our driver, we discovered that this was actually a bonus stop of the day.
We continued on to Brahma Vihara Arama, where we decided to have a quick lunch before entering
Bali's largest Buddhist temple. You cannot get fresh juice like this at home. I am
going to miss this, but thankfully I have almost two more weeks to enjoy it
and you can't beat the view. Holy *#$. I probably shouldn't swear. Holy Moses? Cow?
Cats? Holy all the things. What she means to say is, the view is stupendous.
We are at a Georgian restaurant and Bill ordered Georgian food
and he got an appetizer called Badrijani.
Is it warm? Well, it's served room temperature. There's a really nice cheese in there.
It's basically cheese, walnuts, and then wrapped in grilled eggplant
and it's just really tasty. A little bit sweet, a little bit salty.
Bill's main dish is called Ojahuri and it's baked potatoes with onions and tomatoes,
and it's another Georgian dish. Looking at it, it kind of looks like sweet and sour chicken
except replace the chicken with the baked potato - but we'll see how it tastes.
hmm
Very strong with paprika. It tastes a little like a goulash, actually. It's really good.
That lunch was a treat. That was delicious.
Really, really good. If you come to the temple, we highly recommend the restaurant that seems to
be associated with them. It's sort of up some stairs just like a block down from the temple.
Now we are off to the largest Buddhist temple in all of Bali: Brahma Vihara Arama.
This gorgeous temple is located in the mountains of northern Bali,
placing it out of the way for most tourists.
No idea what these say. I'm so curious.
Oh those are the prettiest wind chimes! The wind chimes here
are tuned slightly differently than ones we have at home, and just plays this beautiful
melody. I think there might be two of them tuned with each other. Oh, it's so pretty.
This place is amazing. It's so beautiful. It's just such a different style than anything that
we have back home, and it's so peaceful and calm, and even though Buddhism is not our religion,
you can still feel an energy that's present here. It's really amazing,
and there's nobody here except some people who are actually practicing Buddhists.
Oh man, I'm so glad we made the journey up here. Absolutely worth it. So different than many of the
other things that we've seen. Like I'm not sure where at home I'd find a house that's sort of
shaped like a flower. I don't know that it's a house; I don't know what this is. I think it's
a giant lotus flower holding up the building, and I think that is what comes out of the lily pads,
so we have a miniature one within the housing. That's so cool, but I don't
think I'd find many buildings shaped like a flower unless it's in Disneyland. I love it.
We have no idea if anything's on the other side.
There's more to see!
At the top of the stairs was a miniature version of the famous stunning Borobudur
temple located on Java, sort of near Yogyakarta. Everything about this temple was peaceful.
Here's another one of these giant flowers that we saw back in Ubud. The center looks plastic,
but it's real. This was a beautiful temple. If you're in northern Bali, and if you like going
to temples, I would say this is a can't miss. It was absolutely amazing. Now we are on to our
next destination, which is a hot spring, which we are already questioning because it's hot out.
They're just beautiful but we're not here for the grounds.
This is our first hot spring experience on a hot day.
It's a bunch of locals. I was really excited they had changing rooms. I wasn't expecting that,
so I wore a skirt, but thumbs up for changing rooms. This is like a slightly warm bath, I think.
It's a little bit warm. Oh! It's not super hot, but it is like a little bit slimy. I guess that's
the minerals - and slippery! Where's the bottom? Am I there? Nope. Am I there? Nope. I'm there! I'm
at the bottom. Oh yeah, for sure slippery. Bill says it's refreshing; I don't know. It feels warm.
It's slimy. It's slimy - my feet are slipping all over the place. I did not expect that.
So, how long do people stay in hot springs for? Do you just stay until you prune up or what?
I need to know. Somebody tell me in the comments.
All right, we're going to go try the other one now.
This one's cool. Cooler, not cool.
Still slippery. So slippery. If you can't see the bottom, you never know when you get to the bottom.
I thought it sloped. It gets deeper - oh you just, oh my god.
Oh my god, uh and I'm stuck.
All right, so we're probably doing this out of order, but we've done the warm pool,
which is this one. We've done the warmer pool, which is this one in back,
and now we're giving this one a try - this one's the hottest we think.
This one is the hottest pool, and the shallowest,
and also the least slimy. It's nice. This one's definitely the hottest,
but it was the best because it has these long fountains, and you can climb under them and you
get a basically a massage. It's really nice. Bill says I have to try that but I don't want
to get my hair super wet. Oh, that's a nice sunburn. I don't want to get my hair super wet.
What happened? Just wait. Wait until I take them off.
First off, I'm wearing a swimsuit. What the...?
It's like Magic Mike!
Quick stop on our way back to Bedugul. It's our first Bali waterfall. Better late than never!
We're at GitGit Waterfall. I stopped moving for about a second and a mosquito landed on my arm, so
it's time for the mosquito dope. Signs of busier times. None of these stalls were
open. Not a single one. We lied. One stand was open. Here are a bunch more that are closed.
To get to this waterfall is much further than I expected. I kind of expected it to be like right
off the road, because you park and you immediately hear water, but it's just a river. It's quite
a ways back here. The anticipation is building! Hopefully it's good. We just got our first glimpse
of a waterfall off in the distance. Wow, it looks like it could be amazing so now I'm excited.
Officially excited. This is excited Heather. How long have we been in Bali, Bill? Including
Nusa Penida, about 2 weeks. We've been here about 2 weeks and earlier today I learned that
"hello" is the same in both languages. I thought everybody knew that we spoke English and they
were all saying "hello" to practice their English. No, it's just how you say hello.
Bad tourist. Why didn't anybody tell me this earlier? They got that from the Dutch. Hello,
hello. Such an American perspective. I'm sorry. Bad tourist! I'm so ashamed. Bad tourist.
We made it! Holy - you gotta knock that off. I've got to stop saying holy something. Wow.
Let's just say wow. Wow. Our driver said that this waterfall is more for looking at and taking
pictures than going in, because the water is dirty - and we're getting misted on.
Hey look at that! Definitely getting sprayed on here but look at it.
It's so powerful. While Bill is using the drone, I'm going to see how close I can get,
which also probably means I'm not going to come away from this dry. You can't see it,
but my phone is completely wet. I'm not sure I should go closer. Maybe just a little.
On second thought, I'm basically getting rained on at this point. Ok, maybe far enough.
I didn't go in the water, but I am sopping wet. My shoes are 100% wet, and I did not even step
in the water. I didn't slip into the water. My hair is wet. My everything. I'm soaked.
That was as close as I could go, I guess. Sorry! I really thought I'd be able to get up to where the
waterfall comes right down. No such luck! Oh well. If you come to Bedugul, you might be wondering,
"where should I eat?" There are a lot of places to choose from, but boy, have we discovered a gem,
and we are headed there now for our second time. If we had discovered it earlier, this probably
would have been our fourth time. It's a little bit out of the way, but it's well worth your
while to make the trip. It's getting a little bit dark but our favorite restaurant is up this road
on the left hand side. You'll see these signs and that means it's time to turn
and go eat. Strawberry banana, strawberry - because that's what the area specializes in.
This is a chicken with a sweet soy sauce, and this is Hai Fu Yang? Fu Yong Hai. Sort of like
Egg Foo Young, we think, based on our Googling. Now we haven't tried this yet but we've seen
it on almost every menu and I'm super curious what this little egg looking pancake is like.
It has so many vegetables in it, and it came with a sauce that I'm not sure if we pour over
it or dip it. I'm going to try dipping. I have no idea if it's spicy, so let's see.
The sauce is sort of like a really thinned out sweet and sour sauce that has a little bit of a
kick. It's just got a little bit of spice. The egg is really nice. Beautifully fried. All the
vegetables inside are super crispy. I should have been ordering this all over Bali. I kind of regret
not getting it sooner. Oh my gosh, it's so good. I love it. We've also ordered something called
Chicken Chop Chai, which the owner we just spoke with says that this is actually a Chinese dish,
but they put some Balinese spices on it, so it's really a Balinese spin on a Chinese dish. I'm
going to give it a try. Here it's got some nice mixed vegetables with bits of chicken in there,
and in kind of a light broth. Looks really good and it's very warm, so give me a moment.
So the vegetables are a nice crunchy texture and they're not overcooked at all. It's just a light
salty flavor and a broth, and with vegetables. It's very good.
Thank you! Thank you. Thank you for coming with us today as we did our little day trip from Bedugul.
I am really happy with the stops that we made, and I loved all three of them (four!).
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