We arrived in Nusa Dua on Saturday at about 11 am and got right to relaxing. Nusa Dua is the resort town in the south of Bali. It is drastically different then the rest of Bali we saw. There are nicely manicured lawns everywhere, and immaculate sidewalks. The sidewalks were what caught our attention. In Ubud the sidewalks were tiles that could be removed to access little streams that were overflow from the streets, and possibly sewage. It was not uncommon for tiles to be missing, broken etc. So nicely maintained sidewalks were a bit of a shock. Especially since no one walks in Nusa Dua. Everyone takes a taxi, or drives. It looked like Florida, but with more statues like the one to the right. It’s hard to see but that is a squirreel of some kind, attached to a garbage can. Except the quirreell has a vert strange expression on his face. Like he is rabbid. There are massive resorts everywhere, with small armies for staff, who all speak English very well.
Speaking of resorts, this was our room. In case you can’t tell, our room opened right on to the pool. We could open our sliding doors, and jump right in!
We took a lot of pictures of the room, so we might make a separate post just about the room. After dropping off our stuff, we got right to relaxing! We went out to the beach, and found a little hut, and sat down. We were brought cold bottles of water, cold wash clothes (to put on our necks) and a little mister bottle to spray ourselves down. It’s pretty hard to not be relaxed in a place like that.
We started getting hungry, so we walked down the main road to find some cheap food. Along the beach it is entirely resorts, and the restaurants are all very expensive. They are not just expensive by Indonesian prices, they were expensive for places in the USA! So we walked out to the road, and the difference was night and day. The beach felt like any beach resort town in the USA, but the road felt like Indonesia again! Stores selling the same touristy junk, little to no sidewalk (our resort was not in Nusa Dua proper, but the next town north called Tanjung Benoa) We found a road side stand that sold us two meals, dessert, and filled up our water bottle for $5! And the food was delicious! For dinner we went to a small warung where a few of the employees from our hotel were eating. That’s how we knew we were eating in the right place.
After some more relaxing at the beach, we went back to our room to take a bath. Our room came with a bath set which had some mineral salts, candle, and flower petals. It was VERY relaxing. We soaked for a while enjoying the flickering candle as the last of the day light faded. It was incredibly romantic, which is not something we do often, so it was a nice change of pace.
After feeling fully relaxed we went to one of the Hotel’s restaurants (It had 3) to see some Balinese dancing(left), and have some dessert. Dessert was delicious (if a little expensive) and the dancing was mediocre. The picture of the dancers didn’t come out so well, but the picture of the stage did!. It was a beautiful night, and we could see a bunch of stars.
Our goal was to come ot Nusa Dua to relax, and on our first day we had done a terrific job!
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