Day 13-Ubud

To day some of my group had to wake up early morning 5.30am as they would like to do the dolphin watch. Our boat men came to pick them up and at 6am they went out to the ocean ready to see the dolphin come out! It was good weather and the sunrise was very beautiful too. when we went out looking for the dolphin, we saw not only us, maybe there were other 15's boats they did the same to watch the dolphin come out. we were wondering around for little while and suddenly our boat men bit yelling, the dolphin show up!! everyone trying to get the best pictures of them, at the first we saw only the fin but not long after some of the dolphin was jumping! not very high but we could see the whole body of dolphin, so we could guess how big they are. Such good morning anyway, we saw lots dolphins and also the weather was perfect, sunrise was beautiful! At around 8am,we went back to hotel, had breakfast then we packing and ready at 9am we left for Ubud but we would like to visit Tirtagangga first.

On the way to Tirtagangga its took about 2.5 hours from Lovina, the view really stunning whenis get closer to Tirtagangga. when the weather very clear, we could see the Mt.Agung, the highest volcano in Bali, its about 3100m. The rice terrace so beautiful and from here in Tirtagangga the view is mix between the rice terrace and the ocean. we could see other island call Nusa Penida and it is still part of Bali or if we really lucky with the weather, we could see also Lombok island which is in the future this island migh be the same like Bali as one of the tourist destination! Soon we arrived in Tirtagangga, we order our lunch and while we were waiting for our lunch, we went to the water palace. very old water palace but still beautiful. very nice garden too and in the pool they put so many fishes mostly gold fish and they are very big. stay at the water palace for about 30-40 mins then we back again to the resto and had our lunch. soon after lunch,all group went wondering around the rice terrace as it is so stunning view. After we had enough, we head back to Ubud which was take about 2 hours from Tirtagangga. Ubud....here we come. if you like the art of real Bali, here is the place. for someone is crazy shoping, you need few days to buy the stuff you like. so many thing we could get here especially the art and painting or hand craft. Ubud is the central of culture of Bali. we could see the most famous dance call Kecak dance which the story is the same like the ballet we saw in Yogya but the different is, here they dont have orchestra, they use their voice as the music and its about 40-50 players! also for you guys love the challenge or active, you could do white water rafting,cycling or hiking around Ubud. And for you who would like to spoilt yourself, this place has so many spa and massage place. we had dinner at 7.30pm, had great dinner and after cos one of my group had birthday to night, i was trying to arrange the birthday cake for her. was so lovely surprise for her, she thought she wont get a birthday cake but we did it for her. Nice after had great dinner then we had great chocolate cake........Yummy....yummy! then about 9.30pm we went back to hotel and hope the weather will be good tomorrow. not too sure what they would like to do here in Ubud. Will see tomorrow anyway!