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8.31.2016

Bali Photo Diary

I went to Bali last Eid Holiday with my best friends (we've been friends since kindergarten!). Here's a recap of our short yet memorable trip :)

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Potato Head Beach Club

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Warung Babi Guling Pak Malen

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2nd best acai bowl after Nalu's; Sisterfields! It's full of granolas & berries!

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Nalu Bowl's granola is the best!

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Naughty Nuri's in Ubud

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Jungle Fish in Ubud

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Yummy watermelon bread that I got from Livingstone Bakery in Seminyak

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I had a DELICIOUS brunch at Faculty (Buro - above Livingstone Bakery). They also got a nice store & I bought a skirt there! Do try their waffle!!

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Nasi Ayam Ibu Oki in Nusa Dua

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Cute place connected to Roti Canai in Canggu.

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Tried a new activity in Bali which was Biking around Ubud. The trip was about 21km. It's quite tiring altho most of the tracks are downhills. I was so happy to pass by beautiful rice fields! Recommended!

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Best pork ribs ever according me? HOG'S WILD !!

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Tried a vegan raw cake at La Dunia - Canggu. It's quite bitter but guilt-free. I prefer real cake tho *oops.

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The best spot at Askara Villa Rice Field View!

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Vue at LV8 Beach Club

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Seacircus - Seminyak

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Cute place but overpriced meals. Acai bowl was meh. Tacos were okay. Coconut water was so expensive for a small skinny glass.

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Nasi Pedas Ibu Andika. I still crave for their floss, crispy potatoes, and sambal!!

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A hidden gem in Seminyak for Chinese food (presented in modern way); GINGERMOON!
Try their pulled pork pizza!! 

7.17.2016

Askara Villa Rice Field, The Hidden Treasure in Canggu


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As some of you might've known thru my instagram & snapchat updates, I went to Bali last Eid holiday. It was a funnnn trip with 4 besties of mine! We went to Bali together 3 years ago, but this time we wanted to explore areas that we'd never been to, Seminyak and Canggu. Legian area is too crowded & Seminyak has better hang out places & nice restaurants.
We stayed in Seminyak for 2 nights, and in Canggu for 2 nights.

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Canggu is located around 10 - 15 minutes from Seminyak and although it's not as crowded as Seminyak yet, I can see that it's a growing area. There are quite famous eateries and beach clubs there like LV8 Vue, Finn's beach club, Old's Man, La Laguna, La Dunia, Deus Ex Machina, Peloton Coffee, etc. Because of that reason, I decided to look for a nice place to stay in Canggu.

Luckily, I found Askara Villa Rice Field View, a really cool villa surrounded by rice fields and tucked in the quiet area of Canggu. It has 3 big bedrooms, 2 bathrooms + 1 toilet, 1 pool with rice field view, and 1 living room. To go to those famous eateries mentioned above, it just takes around 10 minutes by car!

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This is the master bedroom, located in the 2nd floor.

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The balcony of the master bedroom.

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The second bedroom.

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The view from the second bedroom.

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All bedrooms have bathrooms inside. The bathroom is also really big and has complete amenities like fresh towels, tooth paste, tooth brush, shampoo, soap, conditioner, etc!

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This is where we had breakfast every morning and indomie time as supper at late night! Hahaha!

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The villa's staff came every morning to cook breakfast for us!
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On the first day we had toast with selection of jams, sunny side up, juices, and fresh fruits. On the second day we had delicious fried noodle with sunny side up and fresh fruits. Yum!

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This is definitely me & my friends' favorite spot !

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I and my friends felt happy and grateful to be able to stay at Askara Villa. The villa is absolutely beautiful, cozy, has humble staffs, and located near to cool places! We won't hesitate to come back here again for our next visit to Bali! Thank you Askara Villa for the hospitality!

If you're planning to have holiday in Bali, go book Askara Villa Rice Field View in Canggu

They have a SPECIAL OFFER :

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Please also write down passcode [verenlee@askara] on the email subject to acquire our promotion.
 Check their website HERE / instagram: @askara_villa

1.26.2014

B.A.L.I

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Dream, Believe, and Make It Happen. Just like what my all time favorite Indonesian' singer , Agnes Monica said.
If you're following my blog, you must've acknowledged my trip to Bali with my friends which started from me and my friend's random talks in October (well I had told this on this blog a few posts back, but let me tell you again just in case you didn't read it ;p) .

We were just casually chatting in the class and suddenly the idea to go to Singapore together popped out. Then our conversation got further and we realized that going to Bali would be better since we weren't going with our parents and the only destination we wanted to go in sg was USS.

After that we asked our parents' permission and magically all of us got permissions (which never happened before everytime we wished to have a vacation with our friends). So.. we just started booking flights, hotels, and tours from December 30th - January 3rd right after and we had many 'meetings' at night to discuss our itinerary. hahahaha.

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plaid shirt from uniqlo, bag from celine, shoes & white top from new look, socks from topshop

I looked so tiny here... because my friend who took this photo is around 183cm tall. So, we're a half meter apart. lol.

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Our first meal straight from our arrival in Bali, Suckling Pig.
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Greeted by the sunny weather and traffic jams in Bali, we went to our second destination Jimbaran to have dinner. We were so happy as we stepped our feet on the sand since the beach in our beloved hometown is so different with Bali's beaches. 

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The seafood wasn't as good as what I ate around 6 years ago, but it was already fun enough to play around the beach with my friends. (yes. this was my 2nd visit to Bali, and the first one was 6 years ago.)

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On December 31st, we planned to go rafting, but it was cancelled because the stream was not good / safe. Sooo in the morning we just played and swam in our hotel. This hotel was Bliss Surfer Hotel, chosen by our tour because all the famous hotels were already full booked when we checked in October, and if there were available rooms, the prices would be ridiculously expensive (high season, ugh). It was good though. The service, food, room, all were very nice. The girls' room was even upgraded to the suite room (3 beds!!).

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To fill in our empty schedule on that day, we decided to have lunch at Naughty Nuri's by taxi. From the picture itself, you can see that the food was soooooooo gooooddd.

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From Naughty Nuri's, we went to Beachwalk mall. It's pretty far, yes. And we also struggled finding a taxi on that day because on New Year's eve, many roads in Bali were closed and the taxis didn't want to take passengers too.. I took a blueb1rd taxi together with my friends in the photo above from naughty nuri's. The roads were very cramped and the traffic jam was getting worse, so the taxi driver dropped us around Legian (1.5km from our hotel). We walked to our hotel, took a rest for around a half hour while waiting our other friends, then walkeddd again to Beachwalk mall. The hotel's security told us it's not far, but in reality.... it was a pretty tiring walk T.T.

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skirt c/o romwe - denim vest c/o blackribbon.sg - sunglasses from minkpink
My 5 other friends took a different taxi after waving their hands so many times to stop any taxi that passed in front of NN. It was a local taxi and the driver asked IDR 160.000 for a ride to beachwalk mall. It's so expensiveee but they got there without walking.

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It started raining when we were at Beachwalk around 3pm. We decided to have lunch, dinner, and a movie to waste our time while waiting for the new year countdown.

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On the first day of 2014, we went to Tanjung Benoa to do water sport (banana boat, donut, flying fish, sea walking). It was heavily raining and the sea wasn't so clear. But... togetherness overcame all of it :'>.
We bought 2 CDs of our photos and videos in Tj.Benoa, which was so expensiveee ($28/cd) and disappointing (so many blurred photos), but we didn't have any choice since we're too scared to bring our own cameras/ phones down to the sea

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After the watersport activity, we went to Klapa Bar. Originally, we planned to go to El Kabron, Pecatu despite the heavy rain and winds. Unfortunately it was fully booked for a personal party. Ugh. We're so disappointeddd esp after the journey that we took to get there =_=.

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low quality photos because we tried to brighten our darkkk photos as bright as possible

But Thanks God , Klapa Bar was unexpectedly good too. My friend had the best milkshake ever in his life and all of us ate a lot of their yummy dim sum!!

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On the next day we took a cruise to Nusa Lembongan,  and the rain got heavier ... =_=. We went snorkling and took banana boat 3 times because there were so little passengers on that day.

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The rain had stopped when we went to the village. So... let's take a picture!

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Our 2nd hotel was Best Western Kuta Villa. We booked this from agoda after seeing it's cheap deals and a mini pool inside our room!

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The boys always dipped themselves in the pool together and used the shower which was next to the pool as a 'waterfall' hahahaha. I couldn't stop laughing when one of the boys called my room and told me to see them xD

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My last meal in Bali was Ayam Betutu. It's so spicyy till my tongue couldn't barely taste anything than spicy =__=.

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I had quite lots of pie susu . This was the brand I saw the most on instagram (so many people sell this brand). It's the cheapest and also the thinnest (least yummy, sorry) pie susu that I ate in Bali.
 Later, our tour guide bought us another brand.. It's called 'Menik' . It was much better and tastier although the price's sliiiighty more expensive. But still people, other egg tarts are much better than Bali's egg tarts. In Tegal, I usually ordered egg tarts from a local bakery and it's 100x better than these famous pie susu a.k.a egg tarts !

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suspender - style nanda, headband - evita peroni, turtle neck - gowigasa
 This was my #ootd on our last day in Bali. The weather was sunny on that day [wtff ;(!]


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So.. despite the bad weather and lots of rain, we had lots of fun in Bali. I couldn't be more grateful to have friends like them! We really look forward for our next trip (if possible) ;)

photos were taken with iPhone 5