What's up, everyone? Welcome back to another video.
Today we're on the east side of Bali.
We left at 11 o' clock this morning and took the 2-hour ride through the mountains
to the beach on the other side of the island.
We're about 45 minutes south of Amed, which is perfect to hit up 3 tourist hot spots
that we're planning to do in the next 24 hours.
And those 3 hot spots are Tirta Gangga, Heaven's Gate Temple
and the platform tree house thing with the volcano view
that I don't know the name of, but I'll put it here.
The first part of the plan was to go to Tirta Gangga for sunset today
and get there at around half past 3 / 4 o' clock, cause it closes at 5,
but we have a bit of an issue and I think you can hear it.
It's rainy season, and it was sunny when we arrived, and this is what I'm now looking at.
I think we're just gonna have to deal with going in the pool for a little bit.
I'm gonna get in the pool in the rain.
Nothing like a tropical storm... swim .
The rain has stopped, the clothes are on and it's time to head to Tirta Gangga for sunset.
It's going to take us about...
35/40 minutes to get to the temple, and...
that should get us there just before 4 o' clock.
It closes at 5, I'm hoping - fingers crossed -
for some golden light to get some good footage and some good photos while we're there.
Slowpoke.
So I lied, it only took us 20 minutes to get here,
but as we were riding, the heavens opened again,
so the rain stopped and it started again,
so we've just been sitting in a little thing over there, waiting for the rain to pass,
and now we're gonna enter the temple...
Hopefully.
There's no one here though, there's only like three bikes in the car park,
so hopefully it's going to be nice and empty.
So, as you walk towards the temple, there's rows and rows of shops.
You can pick the fish food, because here there's a nice pond with loads of koi fish in it,
and it's a very popoular Instagram spot for you to take your photos, so take the fish food,
feed the fish and they come right to the surface and make it look awesome.
So, the price to get here is 50,000 per person, which is about £2.50, nice and cheap.
As you walk through, you'll go down some stairs which are behind me,
and then you're about to walk down the centre, and each side is a little pond.
There's one this side, and there's one this side.
This side has stepping stones. and you'll be able to feed the fish,
so if you want to do that, make sure you get your fish food before you come in,
which costs 5000 for a little bag, so...
you know, don't miss out on that if that's what you want to do.
And honestly, I'd spend maybe an hour, an hour and a half hour here,
just checking everything out, looking at all the details, because the architecture is stunning
and the statues are absolutely beautiful.
These koi carp are absolutely massive, because people keep feeding them all the time.
They are huge.
So, Tirta Gangga was a Royal Palace built in 1946.
It's around one hectare and was named after the river Ganges,
which is sacred in the Hindu religion.
It was built by the king of Karangasem
and was almost destroyed by Mount Agung in the eruption in the 1960s.
But I'm really glad it wasn't, because this place is absolutely amazing
and it's really cool to come back here a second time.
So the downside of having no tourist is, usually you can take a boat out on the lake
for about 20,000, which is about £1, but you can't do that at the moment.
And also the swimming pool, which is just down there, is closed. Sometimes that's open.
But when you get here, make sure you come up to the top where I'm at the moment.
You'll be surrounded by these statues that look really cool,
and there's a lovely view over the entire Royal Palace from up here as well.
Throw one in there, they'll get it.
Over here.
The fish come to you straight away when you're standing on here.
They literally come out of the water.
Look at the size of their mouths.
Rob just said "it's like feeding the ducks,
but fish".
Robyn's in her element.
It's the sound.
There's too many fish.
Flop, flop, flop, flop, flop, flop, flop.
He tried to eat my finger.
Honestly, get the fish food.
It's a lot of fun.
And there's so bloody many of them.
It's our old mate Barong from the festival last Saturday.
Isn't he cute?
He's licking me.
He's got a tongue like a cat.
Oh, he likes it.
That was the biggest damn bat...
I have ever seen.
That was huge, that cute bird.
And he had it since he was a baby.
- Had it since he was a baby. - So humane.
Yeah, it's a domesticated bat, apparently.
Yeah.
If I leave this here long enough,
you should see a flash of lightning out at sea.
Oh, that looked good.
Now we're just sitting in this little tree house up here.
There's a storm out at sea.
We're gonna watch it, relax and chill out and go to bed,
and we'll pick this up for sunrise,
which should hopefully be very nice.
Goodnight!
Good morning, it is...
6 o' clock in the morning.
We left the hotel an hour ago.
The sun has just risen.
We are at Lahangan Sweet.
There's a big climb up.
The road is muddy and slippery and we're walking up instead.
The sunrise is absolutely beautiful.
We stopped at a viewpoint on the way as well,
and right now, the top of Mount Agung is covered in pink.
I'm just hoping that we're able to walk...
to the viewpoint before it disappears. I'll show you when we get there.
What a place to park.
This is pretty much it, really. We've been here for a little while,
we've geen getting some photos and some footage, it's absolutely stunning.
So now that we're done here, we're gonna go back down the muddy hill we just climbed up
and hit the bike and go to Lempuyang Temple and go see Heaven's Gate,
without any tourists, hopefully. So yeah, we'll pick out when we get there.
- Good morning. - Good morning!
Here we see a mountain Robyn in her natural habitat.
Okay, my go.
We are taking the nature way out. Follow the ecologist.
Come on.
Made it to the top. The bamboo tunnel of death.
So this is where you'd usually pay for tickets, but not at the moment,
because there's not enough tourists here probably, and it's not worth them coming up.
Morning!
Nature's grip.
Banana,
ba-banana.
Banana,
na-na-na-na.
Banana, na-na-na.
Banana-ah-ah!
Okay, I'm walking on the grass, has a bit more stability than the mud.
Definitely don't come up here with the bike.
Especially on rainy season.
Why did the rooster cross the road?
Made it back to the bike.
Hello!
Alright, back at the bike.
Quick snack, I'm gonna pop you in here
and I'll see you at the temple.
And 2 seconds later, we've made it to Lempuyang Temple.
Good morning. Two people, please.
- 100,000. Okay? - Okay.
Ticket and this number for the picture later after.
- Oh okay, thank you. - We're only the second people in.
Thank you! The ticket.
I will go for...
Black?
No! This orange one.
- This one? - Yeah.
- This one or this one? - This one.
Where are you from?
Near London.
- London. - U.K.
We've just arrived at the temple, got our tickets to get it.
It was 100,000 per person, about £5.
It's a bit on the expensive side, but...
They probably don't have a lot of customers at the moment.
Last time I came here, I came at like 7 o'clock in the morning,
and I got a ticket for a picture and I was 70-something.
This time, it is now 8 o' clock in the morning
and we got our ticket for our picture and we are number 2,
so that's...
That's what you get for not having any tourists.
You just keep following this hill up
until you get to the entrance of the temple.
It's on the left.
Oh, all of the shops...
on the side of the road.
They used to be open.
I can see that's one is open, but that's it.
Cheese-bug?
Oh, cheese plant.
Robyn and her plants.
She comes, the Mountain Trooper.
Number 2. Empty.
It's so empty.
Wow. So, as you come through the entrance, you will get blessed.
The woman lovely blessed us with holy water.
There is literally no one here.
They took our picture number, which is 2, but we're the only people here.
And Rob will probably go stand over there and have the picture.
Everyone thinks it's water but it's not. It's a mirror.
A guy sits over the mirror and he takes your picture for you.
So, you're allowed to go up these steps,
to the top up there.
You're not allowed to sit on the sides, and you're not allowed up the middle one.
You can only go up this one or the one over there.
So, this temple is 603 meters above sea level,
and was restored in 2001 and it's really cool here actually.
It's absolutely stunning and definitely worth a visit.
So, once you're done exploring the main temple, you walk through the gate,
down these steps here...
Into the second part of the temple,
and out of the exit.
But not before having a little explore around the second part of the temple.
Oh, yeah.
So, we've done here, we left the temple
and I'm gonna end the video here,
because that's the 3 locations that I was taking you to today.
All without any tourists,
so completely dead, all of them.
The busiest one was probably Tirta Gangga last night,
but even that had minimal tourists there, which is great.
If you're in Bali, I fully recommend coming to these places as soon as possible.
If you're not, then I'm sorry, you'll probably never gonna see them like this, but...
It is an amazing experience
and I'm glad I got to see them.
With all that said,
thank you for watching this video again, I hope you enjoyed it.
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