NOTE: Sorry our updates have been so sparse! We've just been so busy having a good time! We'll slowly be filling in the rest soon!
Okay, so we kinda got lost today...but only a little! Our day started off pretty normally – breakfast and relaxing by the pool – I even made friends with a really friendly tourist from Japan, who was vacationing with her husband. Our waiter buddy was working the pool bar today and we got to talking about things to do. He suggested that we go explore the traditional village that the hotel advertises daily walking tours to, as it has a whole tropical bird display. Sounded like a plan to us! We’d missed the tour already, but that didn’t bother us – we were sure we could find it. So after a final swim, we headed out in search of adventure...or at least a village.
We made it to one end of the main street when we realised we had walked in the wrong direction. Oh well. Time to find our own village! Actually that part was pretty simple. We turned down the lane and walked through the village that was located at the end. We got to see some activity at the local temple as it prepared for a religious performance. We also saw a dock for a lot of local fishing boats. The locals that we ran into were very friendly, and it was very refreshing to not be surrounded by tourists and tours. The village was very calm and everyone seemed quite laid back, even when working. It was a really great atmosphere. The only problem we had was finding a way back to the main road – the village itself was built like a maze, and we ended up in a dead end more than once. But we found our way back eventually (obviously) and set out to look for a place to eat lunch.
Upon recommendation, we decided to try a restaurant called “Cardemon”. We were greeted with a free cocktail, some peanuts and prawn crackers – a pretty good start we thought. They had an extensive menu, like most of the places around here, but unlike most places, they carried a much larger selection of Balinese dishes. We had some incredible braised beef and crème fresh wraps to start (not particularly Balinese, but man! The meat was so tender and the wraps were made fresh! So good!). For a main, James had braised pork belly and homemade pork sausage and green apple salad and I had the suckling pig (babi guling) and homemade pork sausage served on braised lentils with a long bean salad. Everything was cooked beautifully, from the rustic and spicy sausage, to the ultra crisp skin on the pork, to the sweet and spicy salads. This was one of the best meals we had to date! We followed the meal with a super moist chocolate torte slice served with ridiculously thin almond cookies. This place certainly lived up to the recommendation (Thanks for that, Krish!)
After that little bit of fabulous, we headed back to the hotel for a swim and a drink in the pool (Our waiter-now-bartender buddy fixed up his own rendition of a mojito made with lychee and strawberries! Yum!), and a little bit of relaxing for the evening to get us ready for another day of adventure tomorrow!
- Lisa
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