Eat Pray Love - Day 3

 

 

Tanjung Benoa - Turtle Island 

 

 

 

@ Tanah Lot

We started our Day 3 as early as 7am. After getting ready we headed to Mc Donalds for breakfast before checking out from the hotel. We are moving to Tune Hotel, Legian for the next 2 nights. For a start, it was a sunny day and we went to Tanjung Benoa where the Turtle Island is located. After a long bargaining, mummy finally come to a term of paying IDR 400,000 for a chartered boat. It took us about 30mins to reach to the island. In the middle of the sea, the boatman stop to allow us to feed the turtles. We can see the turtles and the ground corals from the glass bottom boat.

Upon arriving at the island, we were greeted by the island "guardian" who then handed a turtle for us for photo shooting. We then walked further to another area where they housed more than 15 huge turtles. Emeryn tried "bathing" the turtle by splashing water on its shelf. The island also housed fruits bat, eagle, snake and "Ubah" bird, where the tourist can have close-up photo session with the animals. Emeryn absolutely loves the petting zoo trip despite dare not getting close to the animals. She was also scared of the speedy boat ride and hold on to mummy tightly. Upon going back to the seaside, we cleaned ourselves before making our move to the next destination.

We stopped Angus half way when we spotted a Chinese eatery place by the roadside, which requested by Ah Kong. After having our lunch, we proceeded to Taman Ayun Temple. We struggled with the heavy rain on our way there and unfortunately the down pour continues when we reached the entrance. To make matter worst, the water has rise up over the ankle making the whole road jammed. We have no choice but to forgo our visit there.

Our next stop was at Tanah Lot. Indeed it is a very calm and peaceful place to visit and it offers spectacular view of the temple in the middle of the sea. The temple sits on a large offshore rock which has been shaped continuously over the years by the ocean tide. Before and after visiting the temple, we shopped at the busy street buying souvenir and more painting. We were all totally in love with the serenity of Tanah Lot.

We ended our Day 3 after visiting Tanah Lot and headed back to the hotel. We had our dinner at the stall next to the hotel before taking a long walk to the local supermarket, Bintang. That nite we slept early in preparation of an early rise the next day.