Bali ~ Day 3 Tanah Lot ~

October 3 20086 Commented

Categorized Under: Bali, Tanah Lot

We reached hotel at about 1 p.m. after Gunung Batur trip. We pampered ourselves with a full body massage to rejuvenate our bodies. An 1 hour Balinese full body massage costed only Rp 50k in a clean decent massage center. We couldn’t find this kind of price in any decent massage center in Kuta area. It easily costs Rp 75k for a full body massage in Kuta. So if you love massage, you may want to get it in less commercialized areas like Sanur.

After the invigorating massage, we decided to get some light meals somewhere nearby. We stumbled across this cafe, The Porch Cafe, that caught our eyes of its cosy Balinese ambiance. For the first time we had non-Balinese food in Bali ^_^. The cook prepared the food in the open kitchen located outdoor. This is the type of my dream cafe that I always want to own one.



There was a backyard with cosy couch, books and games in the shelf and TV.


We ordered Mexican light dish and a salmon sandwich. We were quite satisfied with the food. Simple and fresh.


We found an entrance connected to a cottage in the backyard. Due to the curiosity, we took a glimpse of the cottage. It was a homestay cottage with the name of Flashbacks and The Porch Cafe belonged to Flashbacks.


I immediately fell in love with Flashback for its intimate tropical garden and swimming pool, and the cottage style of rooms. I always love cottage. We checked the price at the reception and found that the prices were quite reasonable ranged from Rp 160k - Rp215k for normal room and Rp410k - Rp 515k for suite and banglow. If you are looking for budgeted hotel, I highly recommend you to go for Flashbacks. It is located in the main street of Sanur and the room price is very cheap with its ambiance and facilities provided.

We wanted to switch to this hotel but all the rooms were fully booked for the following few weeks. Check out their website at http://www.flashbacks-chb.com/.

After the light meal, we started looking for taxi to Tanah Lot for sunset (yeah.. this morning was sunrise, and now sunset). While walking in the street, out of nowhere we found this beautiful passage in one of the back street.


Here we reached Tanah Lot and managed to catch the sunset. A lot of visitors climbed up to the mainland clifftop in search of the best viewing spot of sunset.

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Not sure how did the ducks come to this place. If you watch closely, you will find that all of them stood with only one leg.

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Pura Tanah Lot, one of the most holy places in Bali, closely associated with several important temples along this coast, including Pura Rambut Siwi and Pura Luhur Uluwatu. Because of its sacred status, only bona fide devotees are allowed to climb the temple stairway carved out of the rock face and enter the compounds; everyone else is confined to the patch of grey sand around the base of the rock (which is under water at high tide)

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Picture taken during sunset.

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Nothing much to do in Tanah Lot except admiring the view of Pura Tanah Lot and climbing up to cli
fftop. At about 7 p.m., there was an announcement about the high tide asking us to leave the place. Tanah Lot became lonesome again.

Tips: You won’t be able to get the taxi in Tanah Lot to send you back to the hotel. So always get the taxi to wait for you in Tanah Lot. It would be wiser to ask for a good deal of one fix price for a round trip rather than using meter taxi.
It was quite amazing that we had been up since 1 a.m. and yet we didn’t feel tired or sleepy at all. We went to the bed at 11 p.m. hoping we could get up at 7 a.m. the next morning to start our journey to Padang Bay for our dive trip.
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6 Responses to “Bali ~ Day 3 Tanah Lot ~”

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