-look how blue it is! -this is why i picked it
i've honestly never seen water this blue before,
i mean it looks like there's a filter over the water quite literally
and we're gonna be staying here for the next two nights
good morning guys from bali
it's a very early start to the morning because it's Kintanya's birthday tomorrow
so we are taking a two-day trip and leaving bali, she doesn't know where we're going yet
but you know it from the title as you can see, we're going to nusa cenigan or lembongan
i'm not sure which of the two, well i have been to lembongan and haven't been to ceningan before
and it's gonna be an exciting trip
but we're kind of late because we have to get to sanur now
and we're a little late as always i am always lost
all right so just picked up the tickets
so the cool thing about this reservation
is that the ticket prices were included with the reservation
because of the whole pandemic thing, a lot of the hotels around bali
and in bali are now doing pandemic pricing and doing these big packages
where the ticket prices for the fast boat ferry
are included in the reservation of your hotel booking
so something really nice and i guess good that's coming ahead of the pandemic
because they're trying to generate more business obviously
yeah so we're about to go ahead and grab breakfast now because we haven't eaten yet
-what's it called? -mak beng
-what do they have they? -they have.. it's some fish soup
-fish soup? fish soup for breakfast? -yeah with rice
-oh my god fried fish for breakfast
as you guys can see most of the places are so close down because it's
pretty early in the morning here
-look what you get here.. -only three things?!
-yeah all of them!
so as you guys can see they take covid here pretty seriously everybody's masking up
that is except all the foreigners in canggu for some reason
and get your temperature checked anytime you walk into a building here in bali
and of course they've installed all these hand washing stations in front of buildings, hotels
basically every single building now has a hand washing station if not hand sanitizing station
so really cool to see all the efforts that they're trying to do to
prevent the virus from spreading here
all right so what is that soup? fried fish and rice
that was surprisingly a very delicious breakfast now it's gotten a lot busier here in sanur
everybody's coming out because the boats are starting to leave at 8.30 in the morning
now if you guys are interested in going to that fish place in
the morning before you head out on your boat trip
the place is called warung makbeng i believe so i gotta look that up
and i'll put it up on the google maps for you guys
all right we have arrived in lembongan
all right so we've arrived in nusa lembongan that was actually only about a 30 minute ride
a little bit choppy
but we've negotiated for a scooter for two days for IDR 50k, IDR 50k per day
about to go ahead and pick up the scooter and then head across to nusa ceningan
i don't know how i drove with your bag on the back and my backpack on this little tiny scooter
this is definitely not an max that's for sure, but this is what you get on an island
so we've just checked in, met Bagus, he's the nicest manager i've ever spoken to
so our place is not going to be ready till 2pm since our boat got here so early
so we're just going to go ahead walk around the place, check it out
maybe see the restaurant the view out here
-look how blue it is! -this is why i picked it
-what do you think? -it's so good i mean i've never seen this blue
-this is really blue! is it blue or green? -it's blue definitely blue
so as you can see the clouds have come in, it's a little dark out now
but our villa is finally ready it's almost 2 o'clock had to wait for check-in
and about to go check out the villa see what it looks
all right so we've finally been given villa the keys to the villa for the next two days
so we're gonna give you a full tour real quick, so let's go ahead and walk out to the entrance
so as you can see we literally walk out and have a front view in the morning to the blue lagoon
it's absolutely beautiful can't believe this
we have this really cool pathway, it kind of reminds me of munduk
when we stayed in munduk in northern bali we had a very similar walkway
i'll put up a picture right now for you guys of that walkway, it's super beautiful
but this is what it reminds me of
so as soon as you walk on in you have the view of the villa right up front
with a beautiful private pool and a sunbed with Kintanya on top of it
and let's close these doors
beautiful little makeup room sign
so walking up and i think my favorite part looking out onto that blue lagoon
in the mornings from the window you're gonna have a really nice view of the pool
all right let's take a look at the bedroom this is actually pretty quaint
it's very not that big actually but just enough
you've got a small mini fridge in here i wonder if they left anything, nope, nothing in here
and of course this beautiful bed behind the bed is actually the closet
so got two umbrellas with a safe in here, some hangers and a hair dryer in here as well
now let's go ahead and take a look at the bathroom
dun dun dun! wow! this is actually my first time seeing this!
wow! they have these really cool seashells, very nice shampoo, conditioner and body wash
got the sink, looks like some maybe toothbrushes and vanity kit, oh they gave us a comb too!
and a dental kit as well. wow! still stunned by this
i honestly just can't imagine waking up in the morning and opening up the windows to this view
and so this is pretty much what you get in nusa cenigan during covid, during the pandemic
what's so amazing right now is that in bali in nusa lembongan and nusa cenigan,
it's unfortunate there is no tourism except for the local tourism as well
i have to be honest i don't know what the actual price of this place is typically
i want to say it's well over a hundred dollars a night i think, at least
at least for this pool pool ocean view villa
so they've been doing this getaway package promotion deal
where you get a ocean view pool villa
for two nights, three days two nights and with included a
floating breakfast as well each (morning)
which i'm very excited for tomorrow morning
and the total price of that with ferry transportation which is a big cost actually
you wouldn't think of that as a big cost, but it actually is
included with that it the total price came out to IDR 1,900,000 which is just over $100, i think
but that's for two people
i believe the ferry ride round trip from bali to nusa cenigan or nusa lembongan
is like close to IDR 500,000 round trip per person
so if you really think about it for two people that's like one million right there
so really they're only charging us theoretically 900k for two nights which is
like $80 for two nights
which is like $40 a night
one of the shocking costs here is that the bikes
so typically you rent a motorbike in bali or nusa lembongan for like 50k a day basically or 60k
and that's what we got it for we got it for 50k a day but the gas prices here are like 20k per liter
in bali it's like 10k per liter so double the price
so that's an expensive you guys have to calculate into uh coming here
-what do you think of the place? -it's amazing
-you like it? -i love it
it's such a peaceful and quiet morning just to watch the sunrise here
and then we're going to come back here in about an hour to get our floating breakfast
so really excited for that one
this is pretty cool
i think the coolest part about this is that
you can see the actual beach from the from the drive up top
and you get this amazing view of mount; i believe it's mount agung right; in the distance
it's really cool to see up here in the morning
i don't think you can really swim here though because as you can see,
they are still farming the seaweed here
nonetheless it's still a beautiful morning here in nusa ceningan
and we're just gonna go ahead and chill out here for a little bit
all right so we can't take photos so i'm going to just kind of keep this rolling
and see how this experiment goes
by the way i know i'm going to get a lot of hate for this but
i did not get a helmet when we rented the motorcycle and
nobody on this island wears helmets or masks for that matter
so just so you guys know
i told you
all right so we have stumbled upon our first nice looking beach actually
i've been looking for a nice beach in nusa
lembongan and haven't managed to find one until now that is
shiningan? ceningan. i've been saying siningan but it's really pronounced ceningan, so now i know
from first impressions after being here for a day now,
every single restaurant all the bars all the beach resorts and hotels are pretty much closed down
from first impressions i mean even this hotel back here it's just completely like boarded up
all the beach chairs, all the hammocks and stuff have been pulled away inside
and that's the same thing with all the warungs
all the restaurants here like all the chairs are flipped upside down
they've got the doors closed off and it's a harsh reality of how the pandemic has affected
not only bali but the surrounding islands here and i can imagine it's the same in gili t,
gili air and even probably nusa penida as well in lombok
but we've been finding some small little cafes, small little restaurants here and there
obviously not as many options now being here and not as much to do as well, obviously
but yeah it's kind of happy we're only spending a two-day trip here
and then back off to bali so hopefully hopefully things will improve though