Dreams Come True
October 2012 traveled to Bali for the first time through a tour operator. Terrible flight through Bangkok in a crowded plane. And a fabulous island. We lived in Kuta for two weeks. Excursions were taken from a private Russian-speaking guide Asta. A young Balinese man, spoke Russian quite well, a cheerful and funny little man drove us around the island, told us about the life of the Balinese. We fell in love with this little island.
In March 2013, we began to think about a summer vacation. We did not think for a very long time: we looked at prices from travel agencies in Vietnam, Thailand and China. We looked at the prices of the plane to these countries and hotels on the websites. After a short family council, they chose Bali. At the end of March, we bought plane tickets to Denpasar and back. Contacted Asta, and began to wait for a vacation.
July 15 early in the morning flew to the dream, through Seoul. It was a bit scary, none of the three of us spoke English. Short flight, 6.5 hours at Icheon Airport and 7 hours from KoreanAir to Denpasar. Having bought a visa and received the luggage (it took no more than 30 minutes), we went out to meet. Asta took us to Ubud, a small hotel "Bintang Pari Cottage". Asta recommended this hotel to us and booked a room.
In the morning I went outside and was amazed at the beauty that opened up to me. In front of the house there is a neat clearing, gazebos with tables, a small pond with fish and rice fields!! ! Small pool and lovely young boys staff. It is a paradise!!! ! Relax in this hotel. I could look at the fields and the palm jungle for hours. The child was forcibly forced to leave the pool and eat. Then she caught either fish or snakes with a boy in the rice fields, fed the fish in the pond. A day later, we went on excursions with Asta.
A week later we moved to a hotel in Sanur. All the same, they went to the sea to rest. The first hotel "Bali Kembali" was booked at Booking Bungalow, the description of the room on the site did not correspond to reality. The hotel itself is small, awesomely beautiful area, healthy pool. But the room for three was too small. After 3 days we moved to "Parigata".
We went on excursions every other day, traveled almost the entire island. We did not plan anything in advance, except for the direction. Along the way, we stopped wherever we liked. The child fell in love with rafting. We went with her for 2 more or less calm rafting. Asta was busy with our child, as with his own: he swam with her in the sea, played badminton, rode a bike.
Three weeks flew by unnoticed and it was a pity to leave. Now we are waiting for the next vacation to extend the dream.