Hi there....how are you? Sorry for not giving updates on Go Around Bali Tours activities lately. Now, we would like to share our tour to the north last week. The tour started at 08:00 and we were heading from Ubud to the first destination, Mengwi Royal Palace (Taman Ayun). It was a little early arriving there and there were not too many visitors filling the site. It was very nice there in the
morning (the green yard, the temple, and the river looked so charming).
However, we did not spend much time over there only taking some photos, and
then we went up north to Candi Kuning market. It took about 30 minutes to get
there as the road was not so crowded in the morning. Arriving at the market, we
found that not all shops were open. We stepped out our car and had the first
look to a shop near our car parked. The shop sold lots of interesting things
and they were quite cheap. Our guest, Mr. Orinov decided to buy some for souvenir.
We took a look to another shop and go caught to a fruit shop. Mr. Orinov loves
fruit and he bought some for his breakfast. After shopping and wandering around
for 30 minutes, we decided to continue our trip and drove further north to
Beratan Temple.
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When we first arrived, there were not many people there. But
after 15 minutes looking around, throng of people were coming in to the temple
together with their arca and other holy attributes for purification purposes. I
(the driver) got no surprise as I understood that on that day most of the
villages in Bali held a purification ceremony. Only In one blink of an eye the
site was filled up with people in white and yellow accompanied with musical
instrument of ‘Beleganjur’. Beratan Lake is common water resource used by
nearby local village to do purification ceremony to welcome the Balinese New
Year (Nyepi holy day). We enjoyed the crowd and witnessed the whole procession
until finished. After spending about 40 minutes there, we moved on to our next
destination. We were then heading up further north to Gitgit Twin Waterfalls.
It took us about 35 minutes to get to the spot and was quite smooth as the road
was not too crowded. When we arrived, local guides were approaching and offered
their service. However, Mr. Orinov decided not hire anyone of them and preferred
going down alone. I highly recommend the visitors once you visit this place to
hire a local guide in order to have complete information about the site. There
are three different waterfalls in Gitgit, so it is a must for you to see all of
those. After spending about an hour there, under heavy downpour we drove
further up north to Lovina. Our tour finished in there and Mr. Orinov checked
in a villa nearby Lovina beach. It was a nice tour, but a little tiring. Book
your tour with us and see all part of Bali in just one day. See you soon.
