Samudwith B2C/DPS review by Shirdi Nath Tekur
Will Recommend to Others
Trip was advised and coordinate by Samudwit who gave detailed and very helpful guidance.
Arrived in Bali at 10 30 am local time. Picked up by Suardika . Dropped at the The One Legian.
Paid extra at the hotel for early check in. Rest. Sleepless night. Good hotel. Stayed at Room 167. Hotel has a kettle and tea/coffee satchels are provided. No milk. 2 bottles of water. Tooth brush/paste, body wash/shampoo towels –clean and good. Coffee is quite strong and creates ‘ushna’ if taken too many times without milk.
Tuesday 30 July 2024
Breakfast bread butter jam at the hotel. GWK was the first halt. Good amount of climbing. Electric vehicles available. Krishna statue-huge one. From there to Ulan Watu. Monkeys create havoc. Advised to remove even spectacles. There are regular people for helping to entice the monkeys to part with whatever they have stolen. Lot of climbing. Did not see cecak dance as it was too early. Dance was scheduled for 6 pm. Spent time in Melista beach . Taken to an Indian restaurant where rice /roti/naan etc were available. Return via ‘KRISHNA MARKET’ which is a super bazaar for clothes and stuff without bargaining. In all other places very heavy bargaining is needed.
Wednesday 31 July 2024
Ulun Dan was a great place. On the day of our visit . there was a festival happening with large groups wearing colourful dresses and having a dance with local music support. Appears to have been organised especially for tourism promotion. Number of Indian restaurants all over Bali with typical north Indian dishes available.
Thursday 01 August 2024
Visited Kintamani and the tirtha temple. A dormant volcano with fantastic views and terraced rice fields at the approach. Hotels provide facilities for great views and also a platform jutting out into the abyss with a glass floor. There is also a lake. The tirtha temple is a place for prayer and immersion in a hot spring.
Temples in Bali are far different from an Indian concept of temples with ‘arati’, ‘archana’, prasada etc. There is no ‘deity-icon image’ in any of the temples. The hindusim practised in Bali is different from what we are familiar with. They believe in Nirguna. Worship. Every house or business place has a platform with a square stone on top. You can imagine GOD in amy form. The stone is covered with cloth and maintained daily. Offerings are placed at these places and blessings are sought.
It takes some time to adjust to Bali currency IDR. Plenty of money exchange points with highly varying rates. Better to carry IDR from India. Digital payments are not popular.
Arrived in Bali at 10 30 am local time. Picked up by Suardika . Dropped at the The One Legian.
Paid extra at the hotel for early check in. Rest. Sleepless night. Good hotel. Stayed at Room 167. Hotel has a kettle and tea/coffee satchels are provided. No milk. 2 bottles of water. Tooth brush/paste, body wash/shampoo towels –clean and good. Coffee is quite strong and creates ‘ushna’ if taken too many times without milk.
Tuesday 30 July 2024
Breakfast bread butter jam at the hotel. GWK was the first halt. Good amount of climbing. Electric vehicles available. Krishna statue-huge one. From there to Ulan Watu. Monkeys create havoc. Advised to remove even spectacles. There are regular people for helping to entice the monkeys to part with whatever they have stolen. Lot of climbing. Did not see cecak dance as it was too early. Dance was scheduled for 6 pm. Spent time in Melista beach . Taken to an Indian restaurant where rice /roti/naan etc were available. Return via ‘KRISHNA MARKET’ which is a super bazaar for clothes and stuff without bargaining. In all other places very heavy bargaining is needed.
Wednesday 31 July 2024
Ulun Dan was a great place. On the day of our visit . there was a festival happening with large groups wearing colourful dresses and having a dance with local music support. Appears to have been organised especially for tourism promotion. Number of Indian restaurants all over Bali with typical north Indian dishes available.
Thursday 01 August 2024
Visited Kintamani and the tirtha temple. A dormant volcano with fantastic views and terraced rice fields at the approach. Hotels provide facilities for great views and also a platform jutting out into the abyss with a glass floor. There is also a lake. The tirtha temple is a place for prayer and immersion in a hot spring.
Temples in Bali are far different from an Indian concept of temples with ‘arati’, ‘archana’, prasada etc. There is no ‘deity-icon image’ in any of the temples. The hindusim practised in Bali is different from what we are familiar with. They believe in Nirguna. Worship. Every house or business place has a platform with a square stone on top. You can imagine GOD in amy form. The stone is covered with cloth and maintained daily. Offerings are placed at these places and blessings are sought.
It takes some time to adjust to Bali currency IDR. Plenty of money exchange points with highly varying rates. Better to carry IDR from India. Digital payments are not popular.
