Bali - Part 1

Yes. We are back!

Back from The Island of the Gods just this morning.

Surprisingly, our AirAsia flight took off on-time, and got us back to the city 10 minutes earlier than scheduled! We were hoping that AirAsia would call us yesterday to inform us that our flight would be delayed! heee heee...so that we could stay a little bit longer in this wonderful island! :-)

Actually, our flight to Bali WAS delayed by a couple of hours. Plus we weren't told of the gate change. By the time we got to the plane, we had to sit separately. S1 was complaining..."shouldn't there be seat numbers???" was his remark! These people are so spoilt lah. Anyway, by the time we arrived in Bali and took a cab to the hotel, we just hopped onto our beds ZZZZZZZ.

The next morning, we took off towards Bali Treetops in Bedugul immediately after breakfast. H had gotten a car & driver from his Bali office. The drive was pretty long. Took us almost 2 1/2 hours to get to Bedugul from our hotel in Tanjung Benoa.

Immediately, we geared up.
Yup! ALL FOUR OF US!
Including moi! Harness and all...


There are multiple circuits....starting with...
YELLOW - the easiest
GREEN
BLUE
RED
BLACK




Here's some pictures of the place.



Looks scary?


I would not have allowed my boys to come here if their school did not okay-ed this place. S1 came here for his Year 6 Residential back in November 2007. Two teachers came to Bali prior to the trip to check out on all the places that the kids were going to go; making sure that the safety standards were up to par. This place is run by a French company (I think), and each person has double harness so that when one is released, the other is still secured.

So, here we are.


S1 wanted to do the BLACK...He had wanted to do that the last time he was here but was a little small. He thought he could do the BLACK circuit this time, but the attendants forbade him as he was still too young. Or should I say small-sized? So, reluctantly, he went on the RED. H followed him.


S2 was still too young for RED, so we started on the GREEN. Yes. I said WE. I went with him. The climbing, flying and such.

S2 on the GREEN Circuit

(notice that I am at the same level??)

I tell you...after completing just the GREEN circuit, I was soooo tired. Not so much of the climbing up. But more of the stooping, crawling and balancing on those hanging-thingys. The thing is that you can't really come down mid-way, you'll have to complete the circuit. There's no little ladder or whatever. Some points do have "exits", i.e. the attendants can make little pulleys to lower you down. But other than that, you'll have to complete the circuit if you want OUT.

Needless to say, when S2 went on the BLUE circuit, I tak-boleh liow lah. I asked him to go on himself.

S2 on the BLUE Circuit

As for H and S1, they both completed the RED circuit. S1 went on to do other circuits. H, like me...gave up after completing only one circuit. Our bones are not as young as they were!!

The boys did this for almost 2 1/2 hours!!

S1 and S2 on the BLUE circuit

Can you believe it?

I got the attendants to bring them down when it started to drizzle. I didn't want them to complete the circuits as that would take too long. S1 was just 1/4 into the RED circuit, and the attendant brought him down the pulley-way. As for S2, he was halfway doing the YELLOW circuit, so the guy just carried him down.

By then, it was already 2.15 pm...and naturally, we were now trying to look for a place to have lunch. We popped into a couple of restaurants, but H didn't fancy having Indonesian food, so we drove on. Stuffed ourselves silly with Pringles in the car until we saw KFC in Denpasar. Good 'ole trusted KFC....it's finger lickin good! :-) Ardent fans of Colonel Sanders, we are!!!!